Lyr Req: Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)

Subject: Words for brown eyed girl
From: GUEST,Bates from Birregurra
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 04:13 AM

Can anyone help me with the words for Brown eyed girl as sung by Van Morrisson - Sha la la la la la la la etc.

Subject: Lyr Add: BROWN-EYED GIRL (Van Morrison)
From: Tiger
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 08:10 AM

Here they are........

BROWN-EYED GIRL — Van Morrison

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...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Words for brown eyed girl
From: C-flat
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 11:09 AM

This is a handy site for lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Words for brown eyed girl
From:
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 11:21 AM

Maybe the mind's in the maundegreen gutter, but I always heard "laughin' and a-runnin' naked." I KNOW my puritanical local radio station spliced the final lines (and clumsily) to produce: "Sometimes I'm overcome thinkin' 'bout/Laughin' and a-runnin', hey-hey/Behind the stadium with you..."

Adam

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Words for brown eyed girl
From: allanwill
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 11:51 AM

I read in a site about songs banned from being played on the radio that in 1967 "Radio programmers pass on Van Morrison's Brown-eyed Girl because the lyrics reference premarital sex and teenage pregnancy. Morrison cuts an alternative version with more acceptable lyrics"

Allan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Words for brown eyed girl
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 03:53 PM

Adam's right -- it's a really clumsy edit. Listen on headphones and you'll hear a clunk either side of the line.

BJ

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Words for brown eyed girl
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 06:47 PM

I do so hate to be pedantic, but, shouldn't the line
"Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah" read
"Sha la la la la la la la la la la la dee dah ?

Murray

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Words for brown eyed girl
From: C-flat
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 02:43 AM

The first line is right to my ears.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Words for brown eyed girl
From: GUEST,rafflesbear
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 08:45 AM

can anyone help with the lyrics, performer, record label, availability or any info about another brown-eye song

I love your beautiful brown eyes.................I'll never love blue eyes again, or something like that???

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Words for brown eyed girl
From: GUEST,Richie
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 10:00 AM

I've heard Van Morrison's "Brown_Eyed Girl" was originally entitled "Brown-Skined Girl." Also there are different versions, I have two.

Richie

Subject: Lyr Add: BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 12:24 AM

BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES (Alton Delmore - Arthur Smith - Jerry Capehart)

Willie I love you my darling
I've loved you with all my heart
Tomorrow we might have been married
But rambling has kept us apart.

Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
I'll never love blue eyes again.

(I'll never love blue eyes again.)

Willie, I'll love you forever
I've loved you from the start
Tomorrow I would have been happy
But rambling had drawn us apart.

Down through the barroom he staggered
And fell down by the door
The very last words that he uttered
I'll never get drunk anymore.

Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
I'll never love blue eyes again.

I'll never love blue eyes again...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 02:11 AM

The line In the misty morning fog with our, our hearts a-thumping
And you, my brown-eyed girl, I've always heard and sung as In the misty morning sun, well our hearts they felt brand new, my brown-eyed girl, which may be wrong, but I like better.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
From: GUEST,Steve
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 06:04 PM

Singing something different because you misheard it is one thing... I do it all the time as do most people! Continuing to sing it differently once you know the real words because you like your version better than the writer's smacks of arrogance. If you don't like the words Van Morrison wrote then don't sing the song!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
From: Peace
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 07:13 PM

"Continuing to sing it differently once you know the real words because you like your version better than the writer's smacks of arrogance."

I've done that with songs I wrote myself!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 13 Sep 08 - 11:40 PM

Thanks, Peace.
Steve, it's simply called the Folk Process at work. Stick around and you might learn something about it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 07:21 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFXcHD0z3ZY

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 09:07 PM

"Continuing to sing it differently once you know the real words because you like your version better than the writer's smacks of arrogance. If you don't like the words Van Morrison wrote then don't sing the song!

Boo! Hiss!

Sing whatever you like. If your listeners, if you have any, don't like it, they'll let you know ~ at which time you can reassess your approach.

I listen to, and sing, quite a few Bob Dylan songs. Among the many which have been recorded more than once, you can find any number of lines rewritten, or at least sung differently, every time out.

Example: In the first verse of "When I Paint My Masterpiece," there's a line sung variously as "...where I got me a date with a pretty little girl from Greece," and "...with Botticelli's niece."

I much prefer "Botticelli's niece," always sing it that way, and am glad to have been given the choice.

Of course, I'm talking about a situation where the songwriter himself gave us multiple versions, which is not exactly the same as singing one's own revision. Still, I think it's perfectly OK to sing anything the way you like best. The singer's enjoyment and conviction always makes for a stronger performance.