- 01 Got To Go Back - no guru no method no teacher 1986
When I was a young boy
Back in Orangefield
I used to gaze out
My classroom window and dream
And then go home and listen to Ray sing
I believe to my soul after school,
Oh that love that was within me
You know it carried me through
- 05 In The Garden - no guru no method no teacher 1986
The streets are always wet with rain
After a summer shower when I saw you standin'
Standin' in the garden, in the garden wet with rain
You wiped the teardrops from your eye in sorrow
Yeah we watched the petals fall down to the ground
And as I sat beside you I felt the great sadness that day
In the garden
- 06 Tir Na Nog - no guru no method no teacher 1986
We were standing in the kingdom
And by the mansion gate
We stood enraptured by the silence
As the birds sang their heavenly song
In Tir Na Nog
We stopped in the church of Ireland
And prayed to our father
- 07 Here Comes The Knight - no guru no method no teacher 1986
On the road with my sword
And my shield in my hand
Pressing on to the new day
This love will surely last forever
This love will surely last always
In the valley I see horsemen pass
Baby, baby, baby they don`t want this love to last
There`s a battle for the throne
- 08 Thanks For The Information - no guru no method no teacher 1986
Thanks for the information
Never give a sucker an even break
When he's breaking through to a new level of consciousness
There always seems to be more obstacles in the way
Thanks for the information I know
It's only a combat zone
Thanks for the memory
- 09 One Irish Rover - no guru no method no teacher 1986
Tell me the story now
Now that it's over
Wrap it in glory
For one Irish Rover
Tell me you're wiser now
Tell me you're older
Wrap it in glory
- 10 Ivory Tower - no guru no method no teacher 1986
When you come down
From your Ivory Tower
You will see how it really must be
To be like me, to see like me
To feel like me
Take a look at me, I'm a poor man's son
I never did no harm to no one
- 1974-03-14-Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
01 Ballerina
02 Astral Weeks
03 Streets of Arklow
04 Madame George
05 Brown Eyed Girl
06 Ain't Nothing You Can Do
07 These Dreams of You
08 Warm Love
- 1982-03-21-The Dominion Theatre, London, Uk
01. Into The Mystic
02. Moondance
03. Wavelength
04. Full Force Gale
05. Bright Side of the Road
06. It's All In The Game > You Know What They're Writing About
07. Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
08. Beautiful Vision
- 1984-01-26-Midem, Nouveau Palace De Festival Cannes, France
01. Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart No. 1
02. Dweller On The Threshold
03. Vanlose Stairway
04. It’s All In The Game
05. She Gives Me Religion
06. Help Me
07. Beautiful Vision
08. Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
- 1985-05-18-Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ
01. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart #2
02. Baby Please Don't Go > Gloria > Here Comes The Night > Brown Eyed Girl
03. Jackie Wilson Said
04. Help Me
05. It's All In The Game > You Know What They're Writing About
06. Dweller on the Threshold
07. Vanlose Stairway
08. Tore Down A La Rimbaud
- 1987-06-21-Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, England
01. Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
02. Vanlose Stairway
03. It's All In The Game
04. Help Me
05. Foreign Window
06. Dweller On The Threshold
07. Cleaning Windows
08. Sense Of Wonder
- 1988-07-24-Fife Aid, Craigtoun Country Park, St. Andrews, Scotland
01. Celtic Excavation
02. Queen Of The Slipstream
03. Someone Like You
04. I Forgot That Love Existed
05. In The Garden
06. A Sense Of Wonder
07. Help Me
08. Irish Heartbeat
- 1989-08-12-Hultsfredfestivalen, Lake Hulingen, Hultsfred, Sweden
01. MC intro / Yeah Yeah - Georgie Fame
02. Did Ye Get Healed?
03. Whenever God Shines His Light
04. Cleaning Windows
05. It's All In The Game
06. Orangefield
07. Tore Down A La Rimbaud
08. Help Me
- 1989-11-30-Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
01. I Will Be There
02. Whenever God Shines His Light
03. Cleaning Windows
04. It's All In The Game
05. Orangefield
06. Tore Down A La Rimbaud
07. When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God
08. Beautiful Vision
- 1996-06-22-Botanic Gardens, Belfast, Northern Ireland
01-I'm Not Feeling It Anymore
02-Raincheck
03-Summertime In England
04-Satisfied
05-Vanlose Stairway
06-Full Force Gale
07-Who Can I Turn To
08-See Me Through-Soldier Of Fortune
- 2005-08-06-Museumplatz, Kunst Und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany
01 This Love Of Mine
02 Goldfish Bowl
03 Have I Told You Lately [Las Vegas version]
04 Back On Top
05 Moondance
06 Gypsy In My Soul
07 Fever
08 Magic Time
- 2005-11-18-The Hexagon, Reading, England
01 Keep Mediocrity At Bay
02 Whatever Happened To PJ Proby?
03 Stranded >
Don’t Look Back
04 Have I Told You Lately [Las Vegas version]
05 They Sold Me Out
06 Real Real Gone >
You Send Me
- 2006-01-14-Palacio De Congresos, Madrid, Spain
01) Why Am I treated So Bad [Instr.]
02) Keep Mediocrity At Bay
03) Talk Is Cheap
04) Days Like This
05) Don’t Worry About A Thing
06) Magic Time
07) Cleaning Windows
08) They Sold Me Out
- 2007-03-26-Plaza De Toros, Murcia, Spain
01-Intro
02-Wonderful Remark
03-Big Blue Diamonds
04-Stop Drinking
05-Magic Time
06-It Once Was My Life
07-Stranded
08-Have I Told You Lately
- 2014-02-17-The Dome, Brighton, UK
01. Intro - Shana Morrison
02. Good Must Know Me - Shana Morrison
03. Serve Me Right To Suffer - Shana Morrison
04. Higher And Higher - Shana Morrison
05. Celtic Swing
06. Close Enough For Jazz
07. Back On Top
08. So Quiet In Here
- Ain't Gonna Moan No More
Oh oh oh
Ain't gonna moan no more
Oh oh oh
Ain't gonna moan no more
And the wolf at my door
Ain't gonna moan no more
From the old groaner to the deep, deep blues
Muddy Waters and John Lee too
- And It Stoned Me
Half a mile from the county fair
And the rain keep pourin down
Me and billy standin there
With a silver half a crown
Hands are full of a fishin rod
And the tackle on our backs
We just stood there gettin wet
With our backs against the fence
- And The Healing Has Begun
And we'll walk down the avenue again
And we'll sing all the songs from way back when
And we'll walk down the avenue again
And the healing has begun
And we'll walk down the avenue in style
And we'll walk down the avenue and we'll smile
And we'll say baby ain't it all worthwhile
- Astral Weeks
If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
- Autumn Song
Leaves of brown they fall to the ground
And it's here, over there leaves around
Shut the door, dim the lights and relax
What is more, your desire or the facts
Pitter patter the rain falling down
Little glamor sun coming round
Take a walk when autumn comes to town
- Baby Please Don't Go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Baby, please don't go
Down to New Orleans
You know I love you so
Baby please don't go
Baby, your mind done gone
- Ballerina
Spread your wings
Come on fly awhile
Straight to my arms
Little angel child
You know you only
Lonely twenty-two story block
And if somebodynot just anybody
Wanted to get close to you
- Beside You
BESIDE YOU
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
- Brand New Day
When all the dark clouds roll away
And the sun begins to shine
I see my freedom from across the way
And it comes right in on time
Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light
And it comes from the sky above
Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me
And lights my life with love
- Bright Side of the Road
From The Dark End Of The Street
to The Bright Side Of The Road
we'll Be Lovers Once Again On The
bright Side Of The Road
little Darlin', Come With Me
won't You Help Me Share My Load
from The Dark End Of The Street
- Broken Record
Baby, stall the gate for me
Take me, lift me out of my misery
Lift my spirit up, and set me free
When things are driving me insane
Let me hear that same rhythm ring
Over and over and over
And over and over and over and over again
Take it to the break
- Brown Eyed Girl
Hey where did you go, days when the rain came
Down in the hollow, playin a new game
Laughin and a runnin, skippin and a jumpin
In the misty mornin fog, with our hearts a thumpin at you
The Bown Eyed Girl
You my Brown Eyed Girl
Now what ever happened, to Tuesdays are so slow
- Brown-Eyed Girl
Hey where did we go,
Days when the rains came
Down in the hollow,
Playin' a new game,
Laughing and a running hey, hey
Skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our hearts a thumpin' and you
- Caravan
And the caravan is on it's way
I can hear the merry gypsies play
Mama mama look at emma rose
She's a-playin with the radio
La, la, la, la...
And the caravan has all my friends
It will stay with me until the end
- Celtic Ray
When Lewellyn comes around
And he goes through Market Town
You'll be on the Celtic Ray
Are you ready?
When McMannus comes around
On his early morning rounds
Crying "Heron 'a' lay"
- Come Running
By the side of the tracks where the train goes by
The wind and the rain will catch you, you will sigh
Deep in your heart
Then you'll come a-running to me, mmm
You'll come a-running to me, yeah-yeah
Well, you watch the train go 'round the bend
Play in dust and dream that it will never end
Deep in your heart
- Crazy Face
All the people were waiting for crazy face
He said he'd meet them at his favorite place
Dressed in black stain, white linen and lace
With his head held high and a smile on his face
He said
Ladies and gentlemen, the prince is late
As he stood outside the church-yard gate
And polished up on his thirty eighty and said
- Crazy Love
I can hear her heart beat from a thousand miles
Yeah, the heavens open every time she smiles
And when I come to her, that's where I belong
Yeah, and I run into her like a river's song
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She got a fine sense of humor when I'm feeling low down
Yeah, when I come to her when the sun goes down
- Cul De Sac
In the cul de sac, so smooth
I look down
Be less sure, sir
And take your rest
It's been much too long
Since we drifted in song
Lay it down wet
- Cyprus Avenue
And I'm caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
And I'm caught one more time
Up on Cyprus Avenue
And I'm conquered in a car seat
Not a thing that I can do
I may go crazy
Before that mansion on the hill
- Dancing In The Moonlight
We get it almost every night
When that ol' moon gets-a big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancin' in the moonlight
Everybody here is out of sight
They don't bark, and they don't bite
They keep things loose, they keep things light
- Dweller On The Threshold
I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more
I have seen without perceiving
I have been another man
Let me pierce the realm of glamour
- Evening Train
Love to hear that evening train go by
Love to hear that evening train go by
'Specially when my baby's in my mind
Love to hear that lonesome whistle blow
Love to hear that lonesome whistle blow
When I make my way on down the road
- Everyone 1970
We shall walk again down along the lane
Down the avenue just like we used to do
With our heads so high smile at the passers by
Then we'll softly sigh ay, ay, ay, ay, ay
[Chorus:]
Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone
Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone
- Fair Play
Fair play to you
Killarney's lakes are so blue
And the architecture I'm taking in with my mind
So fine...
Tell me of Poe
Oscar Wilde and Thoreau
Let your midnight and your daytime turn into love of life
- Fire In The Belly
VAN MORRISON LYRICS
Call of the wildest, it's got the best of you
Fire in my heart, fire in my belly too
Got a heart and a mind and a fire inside
And I'm crazy about you
You, you on your high flying cloud
You, you when you're laughing out loud
- Full Force Gale
Like a full force gale, I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by the Lord
And no matter where I roam
I will find my way back home
I will always return to the Lord
In the gentle evening breeze
- Give Me A Kiss
Honey, just one sweet kiss
Baby, from your sweet lips
Honey, just a-one sweet kiss
Baby, from your sweet lips
That's all I want, that's all I need
I'm satisfied
Honey, just one a-your smiles
Lord, makes it all worthwhile
- Glad Tidings
And they'll lay you down low in the easy
And the lips that you kiss will say christmas.
And the miles that you traveled the distance
So believe no lies, dry your eyes and realize
That surprise
La, la, la, la la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
And the businessmen will shake hands and talk in numbers
- Gloria
Like to tell you 'bout my baby
You know she comes round
Just 'bout five feet four
From her head to the ground
Well she comes around here
Just about midnight
She makes me feel so good Lord
Makes me feel alright.
- Golden Autumn Day
Golden Autumn Day
Well I heard the bells ringing, I was thinking about winning
In this God forsaken place
When my confidence was well, then I tripped and I felt
Right flat on my face
Now I'm standing erect, and I feel like coming back
And the sun is shining gold
Put a smile on my face, get back in the human race
- Got To Go Where The Love Is
Sent to Coventry feels like hell
This ain't no place to get well
Sent to Coventry once again
Break out of this empty shell
Start all over somewhere else
Somewhere much stronger than this
Somewhere I can be myself
'Stead of sittin' on the shelf
- Gypsy in my soul
It's just the gypsy in my soul
Make me pack up my things and go
It may seem like I'm on a roll
But it's just the gypsy in my soul
Layin' out in the midday sun
Tryin' so hard not to run
Looking out at the deep blue sea
- Gypsy Queen
Dance on gypsy queen
If it's all night, it's alright
Rave on
Let your love come tumblin' down
If you let your love come tumblin' down
It's alright
Dance on (you know it's alright)
Gypsy queen
- Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Beside the garden walls,
We walk in haunts of ancient peace.
At night we rest and go to sleep
In haunts of ancient peace.
The love and light we seek,
The words we do not need to speak,
Here in this wondrous way we keep
These haunts of ancient peace.
- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
© Van Morrison
Have I told you lately that I love you
Have I told you there's no one above you
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what
you do
- Hungry For Your Love
I'm hungry for your love
I'm hungry for your love
I'm hungry for your love
But I can wait now
I'm on the telephone
And I am all alone
I'm on the telephone
- I Forgot That Love Existed
I Forgot That Love Existed
I forgot that love existed troubled in my mind.
Heartache after heartache, worried all the time.
I forgot that love existed
Then I saw the light
Everyone around me make everything alright.
Oh, oh Socrates and Plato they
Praised it to the skies.
- I Love You
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'll Be Your Lover Too
I'll be your man
I'll understand
Do my best to take good care a you
Yes I will
You'll be my queen
I'll be your king
And I'll be your lover, too
- I've Been Working
I've been workin'
I've been workin' so hard
I've been workin'
I've been workin' so hard
I come home
Make love to you, make love to you
I've been grindin'
- Into The Mystic
We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
- Irish Heartbeat - Carrickfergus
I wished I had you in Carrickfergus,
Only for nights in Ballygrand,
I would swim over the deepest ocean,
The deepest ocean to be by your side.
But the sea is wide and I can't swim over
And neither have I wings to fly.
I wish I could find me a handy boatman
- Jump And Thump
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
Jump and thump.
Move your hump.
- Madame George
Down on Cyprus Avenue
With a childlike vision leaping into view
Clicking and clacking of the high heeled shoe
Ford and Fitzroy, and Madame George
Marching with the soldier boy behind
He's much older now with hat on drinking wine
And that smell of sweet perfume comes drifting through
- 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.
- Moondance
Well it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
- Philosophers Stone
Out on the highways and the by-ways all alone
I'm still searching for, searching for my home
Up in the morning, up in the morning out on the road
And my head is aching and my hands are cold
And I'm looking for the silver lining, silver lining in the clouds
And I'm searching for and
I'm searching for the philosophers stone
- 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
- Satisfied
Let's go walkin' up that mountainside
Look down in the valley down below
And we survey this wondrous scene
Wait a minute-
Hold that dream.
Hold that dream.
Don't want to change my name and write a book
Just like Catcher in the Rye
- Searching for someone exactly like you
I've been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I've been travelling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
- Slim Slow Slider
Slim slow slider
Horse you ride
Is white as snow
Slim slow slider
Horse you ride
Is white as snow
Tell it everywhere you go
Saw you walking
- Someone Exactly Like You
I’ve been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I’ve been travelling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. someone exactly
- Someone Like You
I've been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I've been travelling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. someone exactly
- Stop Drinking
You gotta stop drinking that wine, sonny boy
You gotta stop drinking that wine, sonny boy
If you don't stop drinking that wine it's gonna poison your mind
You gotta stop drinking that old wine, sonny boy
You drink champagne it's gonna be better for you
You drink champagne it's gonna be better for you
Everybody's going out, going out to enjoy
- Summertime In England
Can you meet me in the country
In the summertime in England
Will you meet me?
Will you meet me in the country
In the summertime in England
Will you meet me?
We'll go riding up to Kendal in the country
In the summertime in England.
- Sweet Thing
And I will stroll the merry way
And jump the hedges first
And I will drink the clear
Clean water for to quench my thirst
And I shall watch the ferry-boats
And they'll get high
On a bluer ocean
Against tomorrow's sky
- 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.
- TB 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 in the midnight through,
Until the wee small hours
Long 'fore the break of dawn, oh Lord.
Now Julie there ain't nothin' on my mind
- 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'd you think, it's raining outside?'
You said, "So what"
- The Great Deception
Did you ever hear about the great deception
Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run
Have you ever been down to love city
Where they rip you off with a smile
And it don't take a gun
Don't it hurt so bad in love city
Don't it make you not want to bother at all
- The Way Young Lovers Do
We strolled through fields all wet with rain
And back along the lane again
There in the sunshine
In the sweet summertime
The way that young lovers do
I kissed you on the lips once more
And we said goodbye just adoring the nighttime
Yeah, that's the right time
- These Dreams Of You
I dreamed you paid your dues in Canada
Left me to come through
I headed for the right way
I knew exactly just what to do
I dreamed we played cards in the dark
And you lost and you lied
Wasn't very hard to do
But hurt me deep down inside
- Too Late
Well it's too late for sorrow,
For sorrow, well it's too late
And it's too late for tomorrow,
For tomorrow just can't wait
Well it's too late
For crying in the rain
Well it's too late
- Tupelo Honey
You can take all the tea in china
Put it in a big brown bag for me
Sail right around the seven oceans
Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
She’s an angel of the first degree
She’s as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee
- Warm Love
Look at the ivy on the old clinging wall
Look at the flowers and the green grass so tall
It's not a matter of when push comes to shove
It's just an hour on the wings of a dove
It's just warm love
It's just warm love
- Wavelength
This is a song about your wavelength
And my wavelength, baby, you turn me on
When you get me on your wavelength
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
With your wavelength
Oh, with your wavelength
With your wavelength
- When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God
The sun was setting over Avalon
The last time we stood in the west
Suffering long time angels enraptured by Blake
Burn out the dross innocence captured again
- Whenever God Shines His Light
Whenever God shines his light on me
Opens up my eyes so I can see
When I look up in the darkest night
I know everything's going to be alright
In deep confusion, in great despair
When I reach out for him he is there
When I am lonely as I can be
I know that God shines his light on me
- Who Drove The Red Sports Car
Who drove the red sports car from the mansion
And laid upon the grass in summertime
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
- Wild Honey
Open your arms in the early mornin'
When the light comes shinin' through
Can't you hear my heart beat just for you?
It's beating so wild, honey.
And light comes shinin'
Singin' my song
And the band is playin'
And the music is tried and true
- Wild Night
As you brush your shoes
Stand before the mirror
And you comb your hair
Grab your coat and hat
And you walk, wet streets
Tryin' to remember
All the wild night breezes
In your mem'ry ever
- Wonderful Remark
How can you stand the silence
That pervades when we all cry?
How can you watch the violence
That erupts before your eyes?
How can you tell us something
Just to keep us hangin' on?
Something that just don't mean nothing
When we see it you are gone
- You're My Woman
You're my woman
And you're my woman
You bore my child, Lord
You bore my child, Lord
I want to thank you
I want to thank you
And no one else will do
And no one else will do