Brooklyn Roads

Intro: A 

#1. 
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If I close my eyes, I can almost hear my mother, 
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callin', Neil, go find your brother, Daddy's home,  
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and it's time for supper, hurry on. 
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And I see two boys racin' up two flights of staircase, 
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squirmin' into Papa's embrace and his whiskers warm  
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on their face, where's it gone? Oh, where's it gone? 

Chorus: 
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Two floors above the butcher, first door on the right. 
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And life filled to the brim as I stood by my window 
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and looked out on those, Brooklyn Roads. 

#2. 
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I can still recall the smells of cookin' in the hallways. 
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Rubbers drying in the doorways and report cards I was  
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always afraid to show. 
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Mama'd come to school and as I sit there softly crying, 
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teacher'd say, he's just not trying, got a good head  
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if he'd apply it. 
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But you know yourself, it's always somewhere else. 

Chorus: 
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I built me a castle with dragons and kings and I'd ride  

off with them as I stood by my window and looked out  
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on those Brooklyn roads. 


INTERLUDE: G D G C F Bb C D 

#3. 
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Thought of going back but all I'd see are stranger's  

faces and all the scars that love erases. 
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But as my mind walks through those places I'm wonderin', 
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what's come of them? 

OUTRO: 
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Does some other young boy come home to my room? 

Does he dream what I did as he stands by my window and  
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looks out on those Brook..lyn roads..Brooklyn roads.