The Early Years

Van Morrison The Early Years Lyrics
1.Brown Eyed Girl

Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came ?
Down in the hollow
Playing a new game,
Laughing and a-running, hey, hey,
Skipping and a-jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our, our hearts a-thumping
And you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.
Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down to the old mine with a
Transistor radio.
Standing in the sunlight laughing
Hide behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and a-sliding
All along the waterfall
With you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.

Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Just like that
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
La dee dah.

So hard to find my way
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,
My, how you have grown!
Cast my memory back there, Lord,
Sometime I'm overcome thinking about
Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium
With you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.

Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Laying in the green grass
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Dee dah dee dah dee dah dee dah dee dah dee
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la
Dee dah la dee dah la dee dah la
D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d...


2.He Ain't Give You None

Little gal, little girl, Lord, you know it's true,
Little gal, little girl, Lord, you know it's true,
I don't wanna stop rockin' and rollin' with you.
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Are you gonna let me stand alone ?
Caught you this morning before your Daddy came home.

And I done more for you than your Daddy has ever done,
I done more for you than your Daddy has ever done,
Gave you my jelly roll and he ain't give you none.
Let's go, Eric.

Don't you ever go down, down on Curzon Street, it's bad.
Don't you ever go down, down on Curzon Street.
That's where old John flogs his daily meat.

Maybe sometime he say leave the little boy and the girl behind.
I got messed up round somewhere called Notting Hill Gate,
I lived there for a while, but I moved out and when I moved out
I was in such a state,
I've never gone back there,

But I, I'm sure I done more for you than your Daddy has ever
done, baby,
Made you learn your syllables.
Done more for you than your Daddy has ever done, all right, ha
ha,
Gave you my jelly roll and he ain't give you none.
Stay on the move.

In the back street, in the back street I gave you my jelly roll,
Ah, I gave it to you, ha ha.
Remember when we were down in the, the alley
And I said the lights were out, baby this is it you know, ha ha
ha,
All right, we got a good thing going.
You can leave now if you don't like what's happening.
You know we got a... a few things going, you know, ha ha,
It's a drag, ha ha, huh, that's what you call it.


3.Spanish Rose

The wine beneath the bed,
The things we've done and said
And all the memories that come glancing back to me
In my loneliness
You're standing in the breach
Beyond that stretch, but our love will reach
Unconsciousness that find me sometimes wondering
Where you're at.
Hmm, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, Spanish rose.
The way you pulled the gate
Behind you when you said, 'It ain't too late,
Come on, let's have a ball
And swing the town tonight.'
And hoping you'd come through
And many others, too,
And all the friends we used to have in days gone by,
I'm wondering
If you'll take me back again,
Take me back one more time, Spanish rose.

And when the lights went out
And no one was abandoning the country in full bloom,
In the room we danced
And many hearts were torn
And when the word went around that everything was wrong
And couldn't be put right
It tore me up, it tore me up.

In slumber you did sleep,
The window I did creep
And touch your raven hair and sing that song
Again to you.
You did not even wince,
You thought I was the Prince
To come and take you from your misery
And lonely castle walls.
Ah, take me back again,
Take me back one more time, Spanish rose.

(fadeout)
Ah ah, ah ah,
Mmmj, mmm,
Da da da di da da da ...


4.Goodbye Baby(Baby Goodbye)

Goodbye baby, so long girl.
I know you ain't gonna like it,
But I'm stepping right out in your world
For I'm coming to your party
And I won't be able to stay,
But I'm gonna kiss you one more time, Lord,
Then I'm going away.
Goodbye baby hmm, baby goodbye hmm.
You may be lonely, yeah, you may be hurt,
Like a fool I gave you candy,
You turned around and treated me like dirt.
But still I'm gonna come to your party
And just before the break of day
I'm gonna touch you one more time, Lord,
Then I'm going away.
Sing it to me again
Goodbye baby hmm ha, baby goodbye.

Look out, what you see ?
I see a train a-coming,
A train a-coming down the long lonesome track.
I'll tell you, girl, I gotta go on home now,
But deep down in your heart
You know that someday I'm, I'm coming back
And I'm gonna look for you at your party,
'Cause all the time I know that I'll find you there
And listen, I'm gonna dance with you
One more time, oh yeah.
Sing it to me tonight now
Goodbye baby, sing it sweet baby goodbye.

Lord, you're singing so sweet tonight Goodbye baby
Goodbye baby baby baby baby goodbye
I'll see you around sometime, Lord Goodbye baby...


5.Ro Ro Rosy

Lyrics:Van Morrison
Music:Van Morrison

Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey,
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey,
You're the apple of my eye,
Ice cream in my cherry pie.

She's just sixteen,
She's not yet grown,
She never goes out on her own
She lives way up on the Avenue of Trees,
Where I chanced to walk in the cool night breeze,
And I, I see her face, her smile, her hair
I cry oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye,
Ice cream in my cherry pie.

She come on walkin' down the avenue
I said, Baby, can I come in?
Baby, can I come in?
She said, I love you baby
I said, Do you, do you, do you, do you love me?

Ro to ro to ro ro ro Rosey
Ro ro ro ro ro ro ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye,
Ice cream in my cherry pie.


6.Who Drove the Red Sports Car

Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summer time ?
And who done me out high time fashion
And made me read between the lines ?
And who said, 'Follow the man, it's your only chance,
Sit on your throne, you got to make it on your own, on your
own'?
And who said, 'Ha, ha, look at you, look at you,
You got jam on your face.'
And who did your homework and read your Bible
And signed your name every place ?
And who said, 'Fortunes untold don't go by gold,
You're much better known, you got to make it on your own,
On your own.' Ah, ah, huh uh.

And do you remember, do you remember this time,
I said a long time ago when I came walkin' down,
I came walkin' down, ha, by Maggie's place, ha ha ha,
It started comin' on rain, huh, it started comin' on rain,
'Cause I had nothing on but a shirt and a pair of pants
And I was getting wet, I was getting wet, saturated, saturated
there,
And Maggie opened up the window and Jane swung out her right
arm,
She said, 'Hi!' I said. 'Hi, how're you doing, baby ?'
She said, 'Come on in out the rain, come on in out the rain,
Lord, come on in out the rain, sit down by the fireside,
And dry yourself.' Achoo, do it, do it, ha ha ha, I got caught,
I got caught in a, in a bag, in the bag, oh Lord,
I said, 'I don't mind if I do, I don't mind if I do.' Ha, aah...


7.Midnight Speical

Well you wake up in the mornin'
When the ding-dong ring (ding 'em man, ding 'em)
Go over to the table
See the same old (damn) thing

Nothing put upon the table
And nothin' in my pan
Say anything about it
I get in trouble with the man

Let the midnight special
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Shine it's ever lovin' light on me

If you ever go to Houston
Oh well you better walk right
You better not stagger
And you better not fight

Or the sheriff gonna 'rrest you
Lord, and carry you down
And if the jury find you guilty
You're penitentiary bound

But let the midnight special
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Shine it's ever lovin' light on me

Let the midnight special (hoo)
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Shine it's ever lovin' light on me

Yonder comes Miss Rosie (yeah) (oh yeah)
How in the world do you know? (I be low)
Well I know her by her apron (oh yeah)
And the dress she wore

Umbrella on her shoulder
Piece of paper in her hand (yeah)
She's a-gonna tell the Captain
You tell him listen man

Let the midnight special
Shine a light on me
Let the midnight special
Shine it's ever lovin' light on me
(Me, me, me)

Let the midnight special
Shine a light on me
Well let the midnight special
Shine it's ever lovin' light on me

Well I done my time boy (well, yeah)
Who they caught with a crime
Well the man ain't call me
He done be ridin' down the line

But let the midnight special
Shine a light on me (yeah)
Let the midnight special
Shine it's ever lovin' light on me


8.Beside You

Little Jimmy's gone
Way out of the backstreet
Out of the window
Through the fallin' rain
Right on time
Right on time
That's why Broken Arrow
Waved his finger down the road so dark and narrow
In the evenin'
Just before the Sunday six-bells chime, six-bells chime
And all the dogs are barkin'
Way on down the diamond-studded highway where you wander
And you roam from your retreat and view
Way over on the railroad
Tomorrow all the tippin' trucks will unload
Every scrapbook stuck will glue
And I'll stand beside you
Beside you child
To never never never wonder why at all
No no no no no no no no
To never never wonder why at all
To never never never wonder why it's gotta be
It has to be
Way across the country where the hillside mountain glide
The dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child to
wander
Past your window with a lantern lit
You held it in the doorway and you cast against the pointed
island breeze
Said your time was open, go well on your merry way
Past the brazen footsteps of the silence easy
You breathe in you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out
you breath in
you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out
And you're high on your high-flyin' cloud
Wrapped up in your magic shroud as ecstasy surrounds you
This time it's found you
You turn around you turn around you turn around you turn around
And I'm beside you
Beside you
Oh darlin'
To never never wonder why at all
No no no no no
To never never never wonder why at all
To never never never wonder why it's gotta be
It has to be
And I'm beside you
Beside you
Oh child
To never never wonder why at all
I'm beside you
Beside you
Beside you
Beside you
Oh child


9.It's All Right

Lyrics:Van Morrison
Music:Van Morrison

If it matters how you do it,
And how you do it it's your thing.
If it matters which way you go,
That's your way to go.
And if you get it like that,
That's the way you get it,
'Cause you get it like that
When you want to be that way,
When you wanna be that way,
That's the way you wanna be, see.

Hey! It's all right.
Hey!
Yeah, its all right.

Now that you try to do to me
Out there a-walkin' doesn't matter, baby
Ain't no question, no suggestion
Nothin' in my mind that can't be
Shut out when I want it to be
Nothin' in yours that can't be kept in
When you open it up and lose it
And nothin' you can't let out
If it's got to be let out, just let it out
And don't worry which way it goes.

Chorus

Now how can I tell you that I love you
How can I say so many words and so many syllables
In such a short space of time as this
Just turn it on and soak it in
And let it run off the walls
And let it down, keep it, and don't lose it
Or confuse it
It's just right there layin' open
Completely open for everybody to see
Yeah, you got it.

Chorus


10.Madame George

Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford & Fitzroy, Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
The cool night air like Shalimar
And outside they're making all the stops
The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops
Gone for cigarettes and matches in the shops
Happy taken Madame George
That's when you fall
Whoa, that's when you fall
Yeah, that's when you fall
When you fall into a trance
A sitting on a sofa playing games of chance
With your folded arms and history books you glance
Into the eyes of Madame George
And you think you found the bag
You're getting weaker and your knees begin to sag
In the corner playing dominoes in drag
The one and only Madame George
And then from outside the frosty window raps
She jumps up and says Lord have mercy I think it's the cops
And immediately drops everything she gots
Down into the street below
And you know you gotta go
On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row
Throwing pennies at the bridges down below
And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow
Say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
And as you leave, the room is filled with music, laughing,
music,
dancing, music all around the room
And all the little boys come around, walking away from it all
So cold
And as you're about to leave
She jumps up and says Hey love, you forgot your gloves
And the gloves to love to love the gloves...
To say goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
Dry your eyes for Madame George
Say goodbye in the wind and the rain on the back street
In the backstreet, in the back street
Say goodbye to Madame George
In the backstreet, in the back street, in the back street
Down home, down home in the back street
Gotta go
Say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Dry your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye...
Say goodbye to Madame George
And the loves to love to love the love
Say goodbye
Oooooo
Mmmmmmm
Say goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
The love's to love the love's to love the love's to love...
Say goodbye, goodbye
Get on the train
Get on the train, the train, the train...
This is the train, this is the train...
Whoa, say goodbye, goodbye....
Get on the train, get on the train...


11.Send Your Mind


12.The Smile You Smile

The smile you smile as you and I, see through your laughing eyes
The smile you smile as you and I, see through your laughing
eyes.
O baby, in the whirlpool of them,
I can be in paradise.

I go roamin' in the gloamin ever and a day with you,
O yes we will, I go roamin' in the gloamin?ever and a day with
you,

O baby, and sit between the stars and say,
That's my point of view.

O yes - I, I, I, I, I love you
I, I, I, I, I love you.

In the purple heather, on a hillside, mountain fog will stray
O yeah, in the purple heather, on a hillside, mountain fog will
stray.

O yeah, and chase the coloured the grass,
Around us in the same old way.

I, I, I, I, I love you, baby
I, I, I, I, I love you, O baby.


13.The Back Room

In the back room (in the back room)
In the back room (in the back room)
I waited for you (waited for you)
Ya waited for me (waited for me)
Rain came down, pitter-pat
Say, what you think, it's raining outside
You said, 'So what'
You turned the record player on, had a smoke
Stood up, walked across to the joint in a cloud of mist
Couldn't resist

A kitty stepped in the hall and she rapped the door
Found the key in the letter box, she turned the door
Walked into the room and said, 'What's goin' on?'
I just got back from down the road
Gotta couple a bottles of wine, somethin' to turn you on

What-a you think of that? (think of that, girl)
(Think of that girl)
I said, 'Sit down cat, pull up a seat, you're soakin' wet'
'Take off your coat and hat, wipe your feet on the mat'

In the back room (in the back room)
In the back room (in the back room)
I waited for you (waited for you)
Ya waited for me (waited for me)

I said, 'What time is it Charlie, where did we go all day?'
Seem to get nowhere and do nothin' but sit lookin' at each other
He said, 'I know, I been doin' the same thing for weeks'
I look at the clock and all of a sudden I'm hypnotized
It speaks to me, it goes 'tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock',
ah-huh The kid he said, 'I don't know what you guys do but I
been workin'
so hard, lately that I can just only fall asleep in bed'
So he played some more sounds and grooved a while
Somebody brought out some cherry wine, cherry wine
And we talked about what was goin' on in the music world
And other things
Ha-ha-ha, ha-ha

The rain outside came down like it came never before
Down, came down, it came, rain rain rain
And I said, 'Baby what time is it, what time is it, tell me what
time is it?
'Ah, four-thirty'

So I peeked 'round the corner, the blind
An' there ya go, there's another girl that's comin' home from
school
Lookin' so cool, just learned her A's to Z's
And said,
'Hey man don't look funny, all the little girls comin' home from
school
And they're sittin', talkin' and drinkin' and all them other
funny things
A-ha-ha-ha

And Charlie said to me, 'Ya know what?' I said, 'What?'
He said, 'Man you gotta go out there and do somethin' for
yourself'
'Feel like you wanna make it or else you gonna be sittin' 'round
here like,
nothin' '
I said, 'You're right, I said 'You're so right'
He said, 'I know' ha
I said, 'Do ya?'
Said, 'You know you're cuttin' records, cuttin' records right
You come through that'
An' just through all the time you're gonna be out on the road
I'm out on the backseat man, on the, on the highway
And the colors are gonna run
All of a sudden don't ya feel safe the next gig, you gotta make
it
'I said, 'Yeah I feel safe

I said, 'Yeah you know I can't stay here all the time as much as
I'd like to
But, I just learned about all day and all night
And dig sounds, and go down to the river
And once the artists go through the motions
Gotta do my thing, aah-ah (in the back room) ah-ah
Gotta do my thing (in the back room)
In the back room (in the back room)
FADES-
In the back room (in the back room)


14.Joe Harper Saturday Morning

Well you thought I was a stranger
When you looked upon me, when I came back
But to take you from disaster I cannot master
I cannot master the four winds and your shack
And the roamin' in the gloamin' you have brought, and set before
me
And I think that it's an omen, I'm just not what so many people
see.
And you shine your glory all around
Do not disguise what we did
I asked you for half a pound, and you said -
Go see Joe Harper, Saturday morning, kid
Go see Joe Harper, Saturday morning, kid.

And the child held a ball in the garden, with the old queen
Well you kissed the lips and heart and all the strangers, you
know what I mean
And you walked on the streets so lonely, in your own childish
way
And you thought that you would only - do it for today.

And I shined your glory all around
Did not disguise what we did
I asked you for half a pound, and you said -
'Go see Joe Harper, Saturday morning, kid
Go see Joe Harper, Saturday morning, kid'.

And just went outside the club and the rain came down on his
head and it got all soaking wet.
He says 'Go for yourself', I said 'I know, sure Joe, I ain't
conquered yet'
And I walked away from the backstreets and the rain, and the
song, how many times have I died?
And we turned on outside of the bus shelter and I jumped on and
said 'Goodbye.'

And I shined my glory all around
Did not disguise what I did
Tried to keep it underground but they said -
'Go see Joe Harper, Saturday morning, kid
You gotta, go see Joe Harper, Saturday morning, Saturday
morning...'


15.Chick-A-Boom

Hey girl,
when ya' swish and sway
in your yellow dress
'cross a crowded room,
boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom.
Hey girl,
freckles on your arm,
freckles on your face,
can't we find a place
in a crowded room, we go
boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
boom,
boom, boom, boom, chicka-boom.

A-hey, girl,
I'm goin' away,
but I'm comin' back
with a ginger cat.
What ya' think a' that?

Hey girl,
I' goin' away,
but I'm comin back
by the railroad track,
where the trains go by,
and we sit and we cry in the gloom,
boom, chicka-boom,

Hey girl,
when ya' swish and sway
in your yellow dress
'cross a crowded room,
boom,
boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
chicka, chicka-boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
chicka-chicka-boom-boom,
chick, chicka-boom,
boom, chicka-boom,
chicka-chicka-chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
chick, chick, chicka-boom,
chick-chick-chick-chick-chick-chick-chick-chick,
chick-chick-chick-chick, chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
chicka-boom, chicka-boom,
chick-chick, chicka, chick, chicka-boom, chicka-boom-boom,


16.I Love You

Written:Harold Archer/Harlan Thompson

I love you. I love you.
Is all that I can say.
I love you. I love you.
The same old worlds I'm saying in the same old way.

I love you. I love you.
Three words that are divine.
And now, my dear, I'm waitin' to hear
The words that will make you mine.

Little girl, I love you.
Can't you see I love you.
I love you. Can't you see I love you.

I love you. I love you.
Three words that are divine.
And now, my dear, I'm waitin' to hear
The words that make you mine.