Some Days Are Diamond

The title "Some Days Are Diamond" refers to both the album and the title song on that album, released in 1981, by singer John Denver. "Audio Album: Some Days Are Diamond" (fact sheet), Secondhand Songs, 2006, webpage: [http://www.secondhandsongs.com/cgi/medium-show.php?id=10864&sort=artist SHSongs] .] The album was released on the RCA Victor label.

Partial lyrics

The song lyrics are under copyright from 1981; however, some excerpts can be explained in technical analysis, under the 1961 fair-use citation of the US Copyright Act (title 17, U. S. Code). [ "U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use" (legal notes), cites US Copyright Act (title 17, U. S. Code), Section 107, U.S. Copyright Office, webpage: [http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html CRgov-f1102] . The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples for fair-use excerpts: "quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations."]

Below are partial lyrics [ Per the US Copyright Act (title 17, U. S. Code), Section 107, the fair-use excerpts must not constitute a "performable unit" of the song, so words have been omitted in places.] from the song "Some Days Are Diamond", noting the particular choice of words, such as the contrast between days as "diamond" versus "stone":Note that even though the first line mentions a contrast of diamond and stone, the chorus lyrics remain melancholy, with phrases such as "hard times" and "cold wind" noted.

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