:Playlist: The Very Best of Van Morrison

Van Morrison :Playlist: The Very Best of Van Morrison Lyrics
1.Goodbye Baby

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...


2.I Love You

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.


3.Brown Eyed Girl

Lyricist:Van Morrison

Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin' a new game

Laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey
Skippin' and a-jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin'

And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl

And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio

Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainbow's wall
Slippin' and a-slidin'
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, l-la te da
Just like that
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da
La te da

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
Sometimes I'm overcome thinkin' 'bout it
Makin' 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, l-la te da
(Lyin' in the green grass!)
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da
(Bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit)
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da
(Sha la la la la, la la la la, la te da, la te da, la te da, da
da da)
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da


4.Beside You

Lyricist:Van Morrison

Little Jimmy's gone way out of the back streets
Out of the window, into the falling rain
And he's right on time, right on time
That's why broken arrow waved his finger

Down the road so dark and narrow
In the evening just before the Sunday sixbells chime
And way out on the highway
All the dogs are barkin' way down below

And you wander away from your hillside retreated view
Went to wanderin' Nordhbridge way out on the railroad
Together all the tipping trucks will unload
All the scrapbooks built together stuck with glue
And I'll stand beside you, beside you

Oh child to never wonder why
To never, never, never, never wonder why at all
To never, never, never, never wonder why
It's gotta be, it has to be

Across the crystal pavements
Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide
The dynamo of your smile caressed the
Barefoot virgin child

To wander past your window in the nighttime 'cross the floor
Crying as ecstasy surrounds you
Through the night air your proud time is open
Go well against the pointed idle breeze

Past the footlights of the brazen silence easy
In the night you cry and you want spirits to tell you
Everything's alright
Go ahead and do it one more time baby
You're satisfied I guess
You're way up and the sky comes down
Kaleidoscope

Open and just hold the lantern in the doorway
For the freedom of it
And you take the night air through your nostrils
And you breathe in out, in out
And you breathe just like that, just like that

How does it get you when it gets you
When it gets ya
You may not know it's got you until you turn around
And I'll point a finger at you, point a finger at you

You say which way, which way
That's alright, we've gotten hip to it
Goin' to do it right now
Behind you, beside you, beside you

Oh child to never wonder why
To never, never, never, never wonder why at all
Never, never, never, never wonder why at all


5.He Ain't Give You None

Lyricist:Van Morrison

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 nothing, 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


6.Joe Harper Saturday Morning

Lyricist:Van Morrison

When you thought I was a stranger, when you looked upon me
When I came back
But to take you from disaster, I cannot master
The four winds in your shack

In 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 shined your glory all around
Do not disguise what you 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
When ya kissed the lips and heart, another stranger
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, ha
Do it for today

And you shined 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 just stood outside the club and the rain came down
On his head and he got all soakin' wet
He said, 'Go for yourself', I said, 'I know'
Show Joe, I ain't conquered yet

And I walk away from the backstreet in the rain and I saw
How many times have I died
Then 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'


7.Madame George

Lyricist:Van Morrison

Down on Cyprus Avenue, with a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and 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
Ooh, mmm

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


8.Midnight Special

Lyricist:Bert Berns, Traditional

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

Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on me

Yonder come miss Rosey
How in the world do you know?
How in the world do you know?
Well, I know her by her apron
And the dress she wore

Umbrella on her shoulder
A piece of paper in her hand
She gonna tell old John
She want back her man, she want back her man

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

Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Ever loving light on

If you ever go to Houston
Yeah, you better walk right
You'd better not gamble
And sure thing better not fight

The next thing you know the Sheriff gonna arrest you
Some judge send you down
And you can bet your bottom dollar
Lord, you'll be chain gang bound, chain gang bound

Let the midnight special
Let the midnight
Shine it's light on me
Shine, shine, shine, shine

Let the midnight special
Shine on
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Shine on me, yeah

Let the midnight special
Shine, shine, shine, shine
Shine it's light on me
Shine on me

Let the midnight special
Way into midnight
Shine it's ever loving light on me
Way into midnight, baby


9.Ro Ro Rosey

Lyricist:Van Morrison

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

She's just sixteen
And 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 Rosey
Ro Ro Ro Rosey
You're the apple of my eye
Ice cream in my cherry pie

She come on walkin' down the Avenue
And I said, 'Baby, can I come in?
Baby, can I come in? Love me one more time'
She said, 'I love you baby'
I said, 'Do you, do you, do you, do you love me baby?'

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


10.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 ...


11.T.B. Sheets

Lyricist:Van Morrison

Now, listen, Julie baby
It ain't natural for you to cry in the midnight
It ain't natural for you to cry way into midnight through
Until the wee small hours, long 'fore the break of dawn
Oh, Lord

Now, Julie, an' there ain't nothin' on my mind
More further 'way than what you're lookin' for
I see the way you jumped at me, Lord, from behind the door
And looked into my eyes

Your little star struck innuendos, inadequacies an' foreign
bodies
And the sunlight shining through the crack in the window pane
Numbs my brain
And the sunlight shining through the crack in the window pane
Numbs my brain, oh, Lord

So, open up the window and let me breathe
I said, open up the window and let me breathe
I'm looking down to the street below, Lord, I cried for you
I cried, I cried for you, oh Lord

The cool room, Lord, is a fool's room
The cool room, Lord, is a fool's room
And I can almost smell your T.B. sheets
And I can almost smell your T.B. sheets
On your sick bed

I gotta go, I gotta go
And you said, 'Please, stay I wanna, I wanna
I want a drink of water, I want a drink of water
Go in the kitchen, get me a drink of water'

I said, 'I gotta go, I gotta go, baby'
I said, 'I'll send, I'll send somebody around, later
You know we got John comin' around here later
With a bottle of wine for you, baby, but I gotta go'

The cool room, Lord, is a fool's room
The cool room, Lord, Lord, is a fool's room
And I can almost smell your T.B. sheets
I can almost smell your T.B. sheets, T.B.

I gotta go, I'll send around, send around one that grumbles
later on, babe
See what I can pick up for you, you know that
Yeah, I got a few things going too
Don't worry about it, don't worry about it, don't worry

Go, go, go, go, gotta go
Gotta, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go
All right all right


I turned on the radio, wanna hear a few tunes
Turn on the radio for you
There you go, there you go
There you go, baby, there you go

You'll be all right too, yeah
I know it ain't funny, it ain't runny at all, baby
You laying in the cool room, man
You laying in the cool room, in the cool room


12.Who Drove The Red Sports Car

Lyricist:Van Morrison

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 mind
It's your only chance, sit on your throne
You got to make it on your own, on your own'?

And who said, '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 lie
Don't go by gold'?
You're much better known
You gotta make it on your own, on your own

And do you remember, do you remember this time?
I said a long time ago when I came walkin' down
I came walkin' down Maggie's place
It started comin' on rain, it started comin' on rain

'Cause I had nothin' on but a shirt and a pair of pants
And I was gettin' wet, I was gettin' wet
I saturated, saturated then and Maggie opened up the window
And Jane swung out her right arm

She said, â½Hiâ, I said, â½Hi, how're you doin' baby?â
She said, â½Come on in out of the rain, come on in out of the
rain
Lord, come on in out of the rain, sit down by the fireside, dry
yourself'
Achoo, do it, do it, I got caught, I got caught an' I got, got a
bag

Oh Lord, I said, 'I don't mind if I do, I don't mind if I do'
It's a bag, I mean, huh, you know you gotta
You know, you sort-a turn it upside down
Somethin' like, put it on a rack, fold it an' press it an'
Call it a record or somethin' like that goin'