Neil Diamond

Girl, you'll be your woman

love so much can't count all the ways I'd die for you girl and all they can say is he's not your kind they never get tired of putting me down and I never know when I come around what I'm gonna find don't let them make up your mind

Come take my hand Girl, you'll be a woman Soon, soon You don't need a man I've been misunderstood for all of my life But when the same girl just cuts like a knife A boy's no good

Yeah, I think so.

I was heading down to Memphis for my first recording session down there, and there were some producers I wanted to work with, and I only had two songs written.

And in those days, a session was three hours, and you usually had three songs that you recorded.

So the night before the session at some motel in Memphis, I knocked out this song, Sweet Caroline.

It was one of the fastest songs I've ever written.

And we recorded it the next day, and it became one of my biggest songs, if not the biggest song.

But songs usually don't come like that.

There's usually a lot of work and teeth gnashing and...

and agony and torment over any of these songs.

But that one just popped out, and there it was, and here it is now.

Still, people can sing it.

Well, the fact is that it's fun and easy to sing with.

And I think that that's the bottom line as far as that song is concerned.

It's easy to sing.

It's fun.

People like to sing it.

And that's why it's popular in bars, because anybody can sing it, no matter how many drinks you've had.