Done Too Soon (Live At The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles/1972)

Neil Diamond
Album : Hot August Night

Jesus Christ, Fanny Brice,
Wolfie Mozart and
Humphrey Bogart and
Genghis Khan
On to H. G. Wells.
Ho Chi Minh, Gunga Din
Henry Luce and John Wilkes Booth
And Alexanders
King and Graham Bell.
Ramar Krishna, Mama Whistler,
Patrice Lumumba and Russ Colombo,
Karl and Chico Marx,
Albert Camus.
E. A. Poe, Henri Rousseau,
Sholom Aleichem and Caryl
Chessman,
Alan Freed and
Buster Keaton too
And each one there
Has one thing shared
They have sweated
beneath the same sun,
Looked up in wonder
at the same moon,
And wept when it was all done
For bein done too soon,
For bein done too soon.
For bein done too soon