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Van Morrison – Raincheck
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[Verse 1] / It's not high finance, it's called heart and soul / If it's rock and roll, got to go, go, go, go, go / Gonna keep moving on up to that higher ground / I'm gonna keep on
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Van Morrison – Wild Children
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[Verse 1] / We were the wild children, 1945 / When all the soldiers came marching home from war / Love looks in their eyes, in their eyes / [Verse 2] / Tennessee, Tennessee
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Van Morrison – Troubadours
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[Verse 1] / From the ancient sun to the old heart stove sang the troubadours / From the city gates to the castle walls come the troubadours / On a sunlit day it was bright and
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Van Morrison – No More Lockdown
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[Verse] / No more lockdown / No more government overreach / No more fascist police / Disturbing our peace / No more taking of our freedom / And our God-given rights / Pretending it
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Van Morrison – Domino
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“Domino” by Van Morrison appears on his 1970 album, His Band and the Street Choir.
– Fats Domino in 2010
Morrison wrote this tribute to Fats Domino in 1968, but it wasn’t
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Van Morrison – Stranded
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[Verse 1] / I'm stranded at the edge of the world / It's a world I don't know / Got nowhere to go / Feels like I'm stranded / [Verse 2] / And I'm stranded between / That ol' devil
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Van Morrison – Moondance
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Van Morrison’s brilliant 1970 classic from the album of the same name. It was not released as single until 1977.
This is his most popular song playing-wise – it had been performed
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Van Morrison – Sweet Thing
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Sweet Thing is the only song on the album to look forward instead of backward. In the words of an Allmusic reviewer:
Over the endlessly descending, circular progression, Morrison
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Van Morrison – And It Stoned Me
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“And It Stoned Me” is the opening track on Van Morrison’s critically acclaimed 1970 album, Moondance.
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Slaughter Beach, Dog – Van Morrison
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[Verse 1] / Van Morrison / Lay it out / I get turned down / I don't turn away / I get burned out by the good days / My spirit knows your name / [Verse 2] / Van Morrison / Your turn
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Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
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“Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison appears on his first solo studio album, Blowin' Your Mind (1967).
The song was originally titled “Brown Skinned Girl”, but the record label, Bang
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Van Morrison – Fair Play
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[Verse 1] / Fair play to you, Killarney's lakes are so blue / And the architecture I'm taking in with my mind so fine / Tell me of Poe, Oscar Wilde, and Thoreau / Let your midnight
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Van Morrison – Perfect Fit
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[Verse 1] / Now baby just lately you've been holding back too much / Your looks and my language, this could be the perfect touch / What you are asking fits with everything on my
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Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
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The song Astral Weeks opens the album with the lines
If I ventured in the slipstream, between the viaducts of your dream/ Where immobile steel rims crack, and the ditch in the
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Van Morrison – Wild Honey
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[Verse 1] / Open your arms / In the early mornin' / When the light comes shining through / [Chorus] / Can't you hear my heart beat just for you? / It's beating so wild, honey / And
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Van Morrison – Into the Mystic
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From his 1970 album Moondance – a ballade that is as mysterious as the mysticism to which Morrison alludes throughout the song.
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Van Morrison (Ft. The Chieftains) – Shenandoah
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Oh Shenandoah / It's far I wander / Away you rolling river / Oh Shenandoah / It's far I wander / Away, I'm bound to roam / 'Cross the wide Missouri / Shenandoah / Though I love
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Van Morrison – This Weight
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[Verse 1] / This weight is weighing on my heart / This weight is tearing us apart / This weight is weighing on my soul / Just won't leave me alone / [Chorus] / You know I'm talking
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Van Morrison – Madame George
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Called the other album masterpiece (along with Cyprus Avenue) the song is almost ten minutes long and tells of the mysterious Madame George in a corner playing dominoes in drag
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Van Morrison – Ring Worm
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I can see / By the look on your face / That you've got ringworm / I'm very sorry but / I have to tell you that / You've got ringworm / It's a very common disease / Actually, you're
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Van Morrison – Double Agent
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One goes on stage, the other goes home / One’s got friends and the other’s alone / One writes the words and one performs the songs / Two different roles, in two different worlds
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Van Morrison – Days Like This
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“Days Like This” appears on the 1995 Van Morrison album of the same name.
The song turns the old expression about suffering through bad days on its head. This is a song about
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Van Morrison – Waiting Game
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[Verse 1] / On a golden autumn day returning / Where each moment never is the same / And pure joy sometimes comes with patience / [Refrain] / When I'm waiting on, waiting game
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Van Morrison – In the Garden
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[Verse 1] / The fields are always wet with rain / After a summer shower when I saw you standin' / Standin' in the garden / In the garden wet with rain / [Verse 2] / You wiped the
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Van Morrison – Crazy Love
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[Verse 1] / I can hear her heart beat from a thousand miles / And the heavens open every time she smiles / And when I come to her that's where I belong / Yet I run into her like a
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Van Morrison – Heavy Connection
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In the land of a thousand dances / I dance with you / I was out I was taking my chances / When dreams came true / When you came into my dream / Like from a whisper to a scream
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Van Morrison – Caravan
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[Verse 1] / And the caravan is on it's way / I can hear the merry gypsies play / Mama, mama look at Emma Rose / She's a-playin' with the radio / La la la la, la la la / La la la la
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Van Morrison – I Will Be There
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Whenever the sunshine comes through / Whenever my thoughts turn to you / Whatever you want me to do / I will be there / Whether I crawl uphill / Try to not be through the mill
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Van Morrison – A Sense of Wonder
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[Verse 1] / I walked in my greatcoat down through the days of the leaves / No before after, yes after before / We were shining our light into the days of blooming wonder / In the
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Van Morrison – Enlightenment
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“Enlightenment” by Van Morrison appears on his 1990 album of the same name. It’s a story song in the first person, telling us that we all create our own realities, good and bad.
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Van Morrison – Scandinavia
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[Instrumental]
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Van Morrison & The Chieftains – I'll Tell Me Ma
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I'll tell me ma when I go home / The boys won't leave the girls alone / They'll pull my hair, they stole my comb / Well, that's alright till I go home / She is handsome, she is
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Van Morrison – Tir Na Nog
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[Verse 1] / We were standing in the kingdom / And by the mansion gate / We stood enraptured by the silence / As the birds sang their heavenly song / In Tir Na Nog / [Verse 2] / We
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Van Morrison – Behind the Ritual
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Drinking wine in the alley, drinking wine in the alley / Making time, drinking that wine / Out of my mind in the days gone by / Making time with Sally, drinking that wine / In the
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Van Morrison – The Great Deception
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[Verse 1] / Did you ever hear about the great deception? / Well, the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run / Have you ever been down to Love City? / Where they rip you off
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Van Morrison – Bein' Green
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[Verse 1] / It's not easy bein' green / Having to spend each day the color of the leaves / When it could be nicer bein' red or yellow or gold / Or something much more colorful like
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Van Morrison – Glad Tidings
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The tenth and final track on Van Morrison’s Moondance, it is an R&B Experiment.
It was the last song to be recorded for Moondance, which’s recording sessions took place from
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