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Many people are searching about Sweet Caroline Lyrics today. You know that Sweet Caroline is a great song by Neil Diamond. It came to the market in 1969- that means nearly 38 years ago. I guess that until now no one except Neil Diamond knew that this song was written for Caroline Kennedy. No, Neil Diamond did not have any romantic crush on Caroline Kennedy. In fact, Caroline Kennedy was a child of 9 years when Neil Diamond wrote this song. That time, he saw a picture of her and it seemed to him that this was the picture of a very innocent child. This picture moved him so much that he created the song.

About Sweet Caroline song, Wikipedia wrote:

"Sweet Caroline" is a pop song written and performed by Neil Diamond and officially released on September 16, 1969, as a single. The song reached #4 on the Billboard chart and eventually went platinum for sales of one million singles.[1]

In the fall of 1969, Diamond performed "Sweet Caroline" on several television shows. It later reached #8 on the UK singles chart in 1971. In a 2007 interview, Diamond revealed after many decades that the inspiration for "Sweet Caroline" was former President John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, of whom he saw a photo in a news magazine. She had the song sung to her by Diamond at her 50th birthday party that year.[2]  

In fact, Sweet Caroline was the song that brought Neil Diamond in to the limelight. He became very famous with this song as it caught the attention of music lovers that time. This song is still a favorite song to many people. Thus, Sweet Caroline became a timeless classic. The funny thing is that Neil Diamond did not talk until now about the reason that he wrote this song. Today, he broke this silence and told the world that it was the picture of Caroline Kennedy that inspired him to create this song.

Boston Herald wrote:

Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy’s daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit "Sweet Caroline."

"I’ve never discussed it with anybody before — intentionally," the 66-year-old singer-songwriter told The Associated Press on yesterday during a break from recording. "I thought maybe I would tell it to Caroline when I met her someday."

He got his chance last week when he performed the song via satellite at Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg’s 50th birthday party.   

You may think that Neil was a good friend of President Kennedy and may be that is why he wrote the song about his daughter. No, he was not. In fact, Neil was a young writer struggling in the music industry that time. He saw the picture in of Caroline Kennedy in a magazine. He wrote this song later and it became a super hit.

"It was a No. 1 record and probably is the biggest, most important song of my career, and I have to thank her for the inspiration," he said. "I'm happy to have gotten it off my chest and to have expressed it to Caroline. I thought she might be embarrassed, but she seemed to be struck by it and really, really happy." This was the reaction of Neil Diamond.   

Today, is a lucky day for Caroline Kennedy. She may be the daughter of President Kennedy and is famous as a member of Kennedy family but I am sure that in future she will be known more by the song Sweet Caroline than her being a Kennedy.

Well, I do not know about copy right issues. So, I refrained from posting the lyric of Sweet Caroline song here in this post. However, you can find the lyric from the following link:

Sweet Caroline Lyrics

Neil Diamond is a huge celebrity in the music world. Caroline Kennedy is a famous celebrity too because of being a member of the Kennedy family. So, it is a nice story in the end. I felt that the story of Sweet Caroline Lyrics is like a fairy tale for both Neil Diamond and Caroline Kennedy.  

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