Neil Diamond is “reaching out” on social media with a message to fans: “Don’t touch me, I won’t touch you.”
The “Sweet Caroline” singer released an acoustic version of the Fenway Park staple on YouTube and his social media platforms on Sunday, with a few choice lyrics changed to reflect the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Diamond left the lyrics to the song’s first verse untouched, but they nevertheless have an eerie quality given the current pandemic: “Where it began / I can’t begin to knowin’ / But then I know it’s growing strong / Was in the spring / And spring became the summer / Who’d have believed you’d come along.