ROCKHAPPENZ - Neil Diamond's "Done Too Soon"

	Done Too Soon ···· Neil Diamond

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From Neil Diamond's album "Taproot Manuscript" — (released in 1971)

"Done Too Soon" is a song of mortality, divided stylistically into two sections
— a fast-paced opening part, followed by an introspective second part

The lyrics of the song	Concise information	Details surrounding the individual

Jesus Christ [RIP]	Jesus of Nazareth	Central figure of Christianity
Fanny Brice [RIP]	Fania Borach	American comedienne. Subject of "Funny Girl"
Wolfie Mozart [RIP]	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Austrian composer
Humphrey Bogart [RIP]	Humphrey DeForest Bogart	American actor
Genghis Kham [RIP]	Genghis Emperor (Great Khan)	Mongolian military-political conqueror-adventurer
H.G.Wells [RIP]	Herbert George Wells	British, Victorian-era science-fiction writer
Ho Chi Minh [RIP]	Nguyên Sinh Cung	Vietnamese Communist leader
Gunga Din [RIP]	Gunga Din	Title character of the Rudyard Kipling poem
Henry Luce [RIP]	Henry Robinson Luce	American publisher and founder of Time Magazine
John Wilkes Booth [RIP]	John Wilkes Booth	American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln
Alexander King [RIP]	Alexander Koenig	American writer and early television personality
Alexander Graham Bell [RIP]	Alexander Graham Bell	Scottish-born American inventor of the telephone
Ramakrishna [RIP]	Ramakrishna "Gadadhar" Chattopadhyay	Indian mystic
Mama Whistler [RIP]	Anna Matilda (née McNeill) Whistler	Mother of American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Patrice Lumumba [RIP]	Patrice Émery Lumumba	Assassinated Congolese independence leader
Russ Colombo [RIP]	Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo	American baritone and songwriter
Karl Marx [RIP]	Karl Marx	German philosopher. Joint author of Communist Manifesto
Chico Marx [RIP]	Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx	American comedy actor. One of the Marx Brothers
Albert Camus [RIP]	Albert Camus	French philosopher/author. Contributed to the rise of absurdism
E.A. Poe [RIP]	Edgar Allan Poe	American writer of poetry/macabre. Invented the mystery story
Henri Rousseau [RIP]	Henri Julien Félix Rousseau	French post-impressionist, Naîve or Primitive painter
Sholem Aleichem [RIP]	Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich	Yiddish author, humorist and playwright
Caryl Chessman [RIP]	Caryl Whittier Chessman	Convicted robber/ kidnapper/rapist. Executed at San Quentin
Alan Freed [RIP]	Albert James "Alan" Freed	American DJ, credited with creating the term "Rock 'n' Roll"
Buster Keaton [RIP]	Joseph Frank Keaton	American silent-films actor and stunt performer

..... and each one there, has one thing to share - they have sweated beneath the same sun,
looked up in wonder at the same moon, and wept when it was all done, for being done too soon
FOR BEING DONE TOO SOON .... FOR BEING DONE ....

Done Too Soon ···· Neil Diamond

From Neil Diamond's album "Taproot Manuscript" — (released in 1971)

The lyrics of the song

Concise information

Details surrounding the individual

..... and each one there, has one thing to share - they have sweated beneath the same sun, looked up in wonder at the same moon, and wept when it was all done, for being done too soonFOR BEING DONE TOO SOON .... FOR BEING DONE ....

..... and each one there, has one thing to share - they have sweated beneath the same sun,
looked up in wonder at the same moon, and wept when it was all done, for being done too soon
FOR BEING DONE TOO SOON .... FOR BEING DONE ....