Willie's Diamond Joe-Matt Andersen 

Matt this is my favorite song that you sing .... your vocals bring out the pain and the sorrow that Willy must have been feeling when he wrote this .... Amazing ..Thank you

This voice leaves me speechless, breathless, tears roll down my face and chills for days. WOW!!!

Once I was a rich man, A gambler was my game ‘Til I saw her cool beauty Inside her danced my flame And I watched till my desire Was turned from me to her And she watched till I was blinded And then she left me there Give her diamonds for her fingers And rhinestones for her hair Give her dresses for her body But don’t ever give her care Shell curse you and shell haunt you And shell do it with a smile Even when you’re on the long road And been down it many a mile I gave her all she needed I loved her all I could But she wanted more boys And I never understood And the times that I would leave her I never could decide Whether I was gone for good then Or just for one last ride Give her diamonds for her fingers And rhinestones for her hair Give her dresses for her body But don’t ever give her care Shell curse you and shell haunt you and shell do it with a smile Even when you’re on the long road And been down it many a mile

Thanks Matt all the way from New Zealand soul man

This and broken man are very real songs .. Thank you Matt

And this has gotta be one of my favourites.

Mat, you rock man! Keep rocking us please!

The name of the song is "Willie’s Diamond Joe". It's on Matt's new CD "Coal Ming Blues"

this is so freakin' awesome I can't stand it!!!!

You're both right. this is Willie P Bennett's version of the classic tale of Diamond Joe. Willie P was a great Canadian songwriter.

enjoy the art and pray for the artist

SHIVERS!!!

i have the matt andersen album coal mining blues which this is on. in the book it says this was written by willie p bennett. just to clarify this argument

I want to buy his CD at once !.

Their comment's gone! What'd they say? Matt is awesome!

Great, lets see it then. if you can sing it better than this lad matt andersen, i'll be an instant fan.

Several different versions of the lyrics out there. Only common lyrics between some is a character named "Diamond Joe". Like "State Of Arkansas", this version by Bennett doesn't even have a DJ character. These lyrics were original, thus the credit. Arrangements and chords have also varied.- Even the vocal melody a bit. (worldwideweb).clearlight(dot)com/~acsa/introjs.htm?/~acsa/songfile/DIAMONDJ.HTM

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Does anybody know where I can find a tab of how to play the song like this? If somebody could help me that would be great!

Does anybody know where I can find a tab for this? I've looked everywhere.

Why only now?

Must of been 8 chubby fingers that accidentally hit the dislike button on their way to the like button

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can u sing it any better?

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