the song brown eyed girl is about a former love.
the song brown eyed girl is about a former love.
what is the song brown eyed girl about?
a former love
the song's nostalgic lyrics about a former love were considered too suggestive at the time to be played on many radio stations. a radio-edit of the song was released which removed the lyrics "making love in the green grass", replacing them with "laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey" from a previous verse. this edited version appears on some copies of the compilation album "the best of van morrison". however the remastered cd seems to have the bowdlerised lyrics in the packaging but the original "racy" lyrics on the disc. lyrically, it "shows early hints of the idealized pastoral landscapes that would flow through his songs through the decades, a tendency that links him to the romantic poets, whom morrison has cited as an influence" according to music journalist erik hage.
brown eyed girl
morrison's original recording of "brown eyed girl" remains widely familiar today, as the uncensored version is regularly played by many "oldies" and "classic rock" radio stations. in 2005, morrison received a million-air certificate by bmi as a "top european writer" for reaching 7 million us radio and television airplays for "brown eyed girl" and again in 2007, morrison was awarded another million-air certificate by bmi for 8 million air plays of "brown eyed girl". in 2009, "brown eyed girl" was at the top of the list for most played songs at the bmi london awards winning a million-air certificate for 9 million air plays. in 2011, "brown eyed girl" joined an elite group of songs as it was honoured for having 10 million us radio air plays and therefore becoming one of the ten songs that have been registered with bmi that have received that number of radio plays. as of 2015, "brown eyed girl" remains the most downloaded and most played song of the entire 1960s decade.
brown eyed girl