Neil Diamond Top Ten: Longfellow Serenade (#6)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (68915)
United States
December 18, 2020 11:17am CST
Neil Diamond is one of the great legends in American popular music, and I’m celebrating him with a look at my ten favorite songs by him. Here’s today’s tune from the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
#6: Longfellow Serenade
So the story goes that, when he was a teenager, Diamond quoted some Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (best-known to non-poetry buffs for writing “Paul Revere’s Ride”) to an older woman, and, ahem....”got lucky.” 
There are millions of songs about sex out there, but very few with a line as great as, “I’ll weave this web of rhyme upon the summer night.”
Longfellow Serenade
Written by Neil Diamond
From Serenade, 1974
And I was lonely:
There are millions of songs about sex out there, but very few with a line as great as, “I’ll weave this web of rhyme upon the summer night.”
Longfellow Serenade
Written by Neil Diamond
From Serenade, 1974
And I was lonely:
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupLongfellow Serenade · Neil DiamondIn My Lifetime? 1974 Neil Diamond, under exclusive license to Capitol Records L...
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
20 Dec 20
This is one of neil Diamond´s favorites for me. Ageless.
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. Such a perfect and romantic song.
@FourWalls (68915)
• United States
19 Dec 20
It must be a popular move that guys use. There’s a line in a T-Bone Burnett song that says, “He reads her Keats and Byron.”
Or maybe it’s just a popular move in songs. 
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@RasmaSandra (80658)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Dec 20
This is among my favorites by him
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