Hey where did we go, days when the rain 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 hearts a thumpin' at you, The Brown-Eyed Girl You're my Brown-Eyed Girl
Now what ever happened, Tuesday is so slow, Goin' down the old man river, with a transistor radio standin' in the sunlight laughin' hidin' behind a rainbow wall Slippin' and a slidin', all along the waterfall with you, the Brown-Eyed Girl You're my Brown-Eyed Girl.
Do you remember when, ah we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah 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 had grown, Cast my memory back there Lord Sometimes I'm overcome thinkin' bout, makin love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you. the Brown-Eyed Girl You, my Brown-Eyed Girl.
Do you remember when, ah we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah la dee dah
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 bridge 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 swing, let's turn and have a Ball 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 just couldn't be put right It tore me up, it tore me up, love.
This room where you did sleep, The window I did creep And touched your raven hair and sang that song Again to you. You did not even wince, You thought I was the Prince To come and take you from your misery In lonely castle walls. Ah, take me back again, Take me back one more time, Spanish rose. Ah ah, ah ah, ooh, hmm, da da da di da da da ...
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...
Ro Ro Rosey 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, 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, uh uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh."
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, pie, Huh uh, huh uh, huh uh.
She came on walking down the avenue and I said, "Baby, can I come in, baby, can I come in And love you one more time ?" She said, "I love you, babe." I said, "D-d-d-do you, whoa woman, do you, Do you love me ?"
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.
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, chicka-boom, chicka-boom] (backup singers) 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, [chicka-boom, chicka-boom] [chicka-boom, chicka-boom-boom]
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.
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)
Midnight Special Let the midnight special Let the midnight special Shine its light on me Shine a light on me, Let the midnight special Let the midnight... Shine its 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 its light on me Shine a light on me. Let the midnight special Let the midnight... Shine its 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 And some judge send you down And you can bet your bottom dollar Lord, you'll be chaingang bound, Chaingang bound.
Let the midnight special Let the midnight Shine its light on me Shine, shine, shine, shine, Let the midnight special Shine on, Shine its ever-loving light on me Shine on me, yeah.
Let the midnight special Shine, shine, shine, Shine its light on me Shine, shine on me, Let the midnight special Way into midnight, Shine its ever-loving light on me Way into midnight, baby, Let the midnight special Waah...
T.B. Sheets 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, huh uh ha. Ha. 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 a 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.
Ha, so open up the window and let me breathe. I said open up the window, shh shh shh shh shh and let me breathe. I'm looking down to the street below, Lord, I cried for you, Ha ha, I cried, I cried for you, ha ha. 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 here 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, 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 gotta go. I'll send around, send around one that grumbles later on, babe. We'll see what I can pick up for you, you know. Yeah, I got a few things gotta do. Don't worry about it, don't worry about it, don't worry. Huh uh, go, go, go, I've gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, Gotta go, gotta go, huh uh, all right, all right, huh huh huh.
I turned on the radio, If you wanna hear a few tunes, I'll turn on the radio for you. There you go, there you go, there you go, baby, there you go, huh.
You'll be all right, too, huh huh, ha ha, yeah. I know it ain't funny, it ain't runny at all, baby, Always laying in the cool room, man, laying in the cool room, In the cool room, in the cool room.
Words and music by 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 want to stop Rockin' and rollin' with you. Are you gonna let me stand alone, Are you gonna let me stand alone, Caught you this mornin' Before your Daddy came home. And I've done more for you Than your Daddy has ever done, I've done more for you Than your Daddy has ever done Gave you my jelly roll And he ain't give you none.
Don't you ever go down Down on Kersian [Curzon?] Street, It's bad Don't you ever go down Down on Kersian [Curzon?] Street That's where old John Flogs his daily meat Maybe sometime he says leave the Little boy and the girl behind I got messed up round somewhere Called the Notting Hill Gate I lived there for awhile But I moved out And when I moved out I was in such a state I've never gone back there, but I'm sure I done more for you Than you Daddy has ever done baby Made you learn your syllables. Done more for you Than your Daddy has ever done Gave you my jelly roll And he ain't give you none
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hey where did we go, days when the rain 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 hearts a thumpin' at you, The Brown-Eyed Girl You're my Brown-Eyed Girl
Now what ever happened, Tuesday is so slow, Goin' down the old man river, with a transistor radio standin' in the sunlight laughin' hidin' behind a rainbow wall Slippin' and a slidin', all along the waterfall with you, the Brown-Eyed Girl You're my Brown-Eyed Girl.
Do you remember when, ah we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah 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 had grown, Cast my memory back there Lord Sometimes I'm overcome thinkin' bout, makin love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you. the Brown-Eyed Girl You, my Brown-Eyed Girl.
Do you remember when, ah we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah la dee dah
Smile you smile is you and I See through your laughing eyes The smile you smile is you and I See through your laughing eyes Oh, baby In the whirlpool of them, I Can be in paradise
I'd go roamin' in the gloamin' And ever and a day with you Oh yes, I will I'd go roamin' in the gloamin' And ever and a day with you Oh baby Sit between the stars and say That's my point of view Oh yes
I yi, yi, yi, love you
I yi, yi, yi yi, love you
In the purple heather On a hillside mountain fog we'll stray Oh yeah In the purple heather On a hillside mountain fog we'll stray
Oh yeah An' chase the colored grass Around us in the same old way
I yi, yi, yi, yi love you, baby I yi, yi, yi, yi love you, oh yeah.