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Hey, where did we go?
The days when the rains came
Down in the hollow
Playing a new game
Laughing and a-runnin', hey, hey
Skipping and a-jumpin'
In the misty morning fog with
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
Standing in the sunlight, laughing
Hiding behind a rainbow's wall
Slipping and 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 te da
Just like that
Sha la la la la la la la la la 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, you have grown
Cast my memory back there, Lord
Sometimes, 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 de da
Sha la la la la la la la la la la de da
Sha la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la la de da
| BillG | Posted: Nov 26, 2012 - 15:00 leafmold wrote: OH! Censored! Can't you play the original! Sorry about that. Fixed finally. |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Sep 28, 2012 - 17:40 Bill, you're playing the Top 40 version! Instead of "making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you it's "laughing and a running, skipping and a jumping..." Play the "adult" version. I seem to recall emailing you with this suggestion before. |
| Dave_Mack (Ball of Confusion) | Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 08:42 Dave_K wrote: why would they censor 'making love in the green grass'? It's a crime, I tell ya! Fix it, Bill!!! |
| leafmold | Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 08:41 OH! Censored! Can't you play the original! |
| Dave_K (Waterbury, CT) | Posted: May 25, 2012 - 12:10 SinisterDexter wrote:Crap, this is the Clear Channel-edited version.  Dave_Mack wrote: Yah, that's sooooo wrong. I remember when I got T.B. Sheets on CD and it had that edited version. I was stunned, stunned I tell you! why would they censor 'making love in the green grass'? |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: May 25, 2012 - 12:06 Gotta say, I'm a bit tired of this one. And it is a classic..... |
| juanos (Somewhere between the US and Guatemala) | Posted: May 25, 2012 - 12:05 Simply put, this is my ideal of song... simple, nice, good, catchy, nicely played...  |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 17:23 kingart wrote: Brown Eyed Girl couldn't t have been released in 1964, as it says here. It has no 1964 sound for one thing. Van the Man hadn't even yet cut Gloria with Them. No, Bill, 1974 is the year; it was on a collection of current early 1970s hits and classics I had on 8-track in my car in 1974. No Way it was released in 74! I was in junior high when this song first came out and that was back in the 60's! In fact, I think this was the first song that Van Morrison had success with. It was recorded in '67 and I was 15 and in grade 11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Eyed_Girl |
| Dave_Mack (Ball of Confusion) | Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 13:57 SinisterDexter wrote: Crap, this is the Clear Channel-edited version. Yah, that's sooooo wrong. I remember when I got T.B. Sheets on CD and it had that edited version. I was stunned, stunned I tell you! |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Aug 14, 2011 - 15:53 Brown Eyed Girl couldn't t have been released in 1964, as it says here. It has no 1964 sound for one thing. Van the Man hadn't even yet cut Gloria with Them. No, Bill, 1974 is the year; it was on a collection of current early 1970s hits and classics I had on 8-track in my car in 1974. |
| SinisterDexter | Posted: Aug 14, 2011 - 15:50 Crap, this is the Clear Channel-edited version. |
| thefoodoflove (Sydney) | Posted: Jun 12, 2011 - 15:10 Happy daze!! |
| kcar | Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 21:39 peacockangel wrote: wow ~ Jesus into Van ~ how could you not think of me lol Bill did it again today—from "April Skies" to "Brown Eyed Girl"—not the smoothest segue to my ears. Both great songs though. |
| haresfur | Posted: Dec 25, 2010 - 03:41 ColoBacon wrote: Have used this song for years in youth ministry. Many people seem surprised given the usual version play on the radio has to do with making love behind the stadium. Bill, thank you for playing "laughing and a'running" version - Radio Paradise happens to be church this morning!!! Gee when I was church youth group advisor, I wouldn't have hesitated to play the uncensored version. I believe in giving teenagers a lot of credit for understanding what growing up means and I don't believe dumbing things down for them helps. Besides, I take an expansive view of what "making love" means. Then again on movie nights, we watched Dogma and la Cage aux Folles, among others. |
| ColoBacon (Somewhere far outside of Chicago...) | Posted: Oct 03, 2010 - 08:05 Have used this song for years in youth ministry. Many people seem surprised given the usual version play on the radio has to do with making love behind the stadium. Bill, thank you for playing "laughing and a'running" version - Radio Paradise happens to be church this morning!!! |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 11:26 tom-kenna wrote: What male hasn't had a crush on a brown eyed girl. This song has universal appeal.  Also love the guitar riff. It's a pretty high likelihood, considering that something like 95% of the human females on the planet have brown eyes. So, yes, it can have universal appeal. |
| Buffalocarl | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 10:57 I remember there was more going on than just a-skippin' and a-jumpin' behind the stadium! |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 10:55 peacockangel wrote: wow ~ Jesus into Van ~ how could you not think of me lol do you remember when ... |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 10:53 wow ~ Jesus into Van ~ how could you not think of me lol |
| (former member) (Idaho) | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 10:53 Been called this so many times, I wish I could get paid for being a brown-eyed girl ..  |
| bachbeet | Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 10:52 Rated lower only because it's the censored version. No need for such a "prudish" version in the 21st century. Otherwise, the original uncensored version is a great song. |
| chasech5 (Ames, IA) | Posted: May 28, 2010 - 15:03 Did not know there was a censored version. I've never heard censored on terrestrial radio before either. Lame. Get the original. It ain't hard to find. |
| Paxus (Las Vegas, NV) | Posted: May 28, 2010 - 15:02 It seems like every country I visited in Europe was playing this song. I don't know why, but they were. lol Good memories!!!! |
| laup (brantford , ontario) | Posted: May 28, 2010 - 15:00 old time fav of mine |
| BowTieDad (Stockholm, Sweden) | Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 22:49 Dillinquent wrote: Not more Van bloody Moribund!  amen to that! |
| pauleywalnuts (Ontario) | Posted: Mar 26, 2010 - 07:21 Van the man!  |
| F-Man (rock hill, sc) | Posted: Feb 22, 2010 - 18:21 Could be this song gets played a lot because it's a GREAT song! Hard for me to get too much Van! Like other RP listeners, I tune in to hear songs I don't hear on broadcast stations; however, I don't mind the occasional playing of a rock standard like this one. |
| Johnny_Wave (California, baby) | Posted: Feb 22, 2010 - 17:38 Used to like this, but it suffers from serious overplaying. Way back in freshman year of high school, this was a great song, but by the time I was junior, I was sick of it. That was 20 years ago, and since then the 1000's of times I've heard it over and over and over again haven't improved it. These days, I pretty much just endure it Continuously playing this is not doing the song any favors..... I'd like this a lot more if I heard it only once a year or so |
| dkwalika (Upper Midwest) | Posted: Jan 22, 2010 - 07:26 Funny, I don't remember hearing a censored version before. Wow, how stupid! |
| Dillinquent | Posted: Jan 22, 2010 - 07:25 Not more Van bloody Moribund! |
| keller1 (In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby) | Posted: Nov 20, 2009 - 11:27 Jimmy Buffett almost took the roof off the Air Canada Centre in Toronto last night with this tune. |
| tm (Atlanta) | Posted: Nov 20, 2009 - 11:22 Bill - can we stop playing this one... for like 1000 years. I love the song but it doesn't need to be heard again to be heard... |
| sdn (Philadelphia) | Posted: Nov 20, 2009 - 11:19 Not gonna rate this one. Great song, terribly overplayed. |
| markoirl (Dublin) | Posted: Oct 20, 2009 - 01:03 keller1 wrote: I'm sure this used to be a great song ... Speaking personally after having played this probably a thousand times in probably ten different bar bands, I get kind of Tourette like tics whenever I hear it now. Same with Mustang Sally and Born To Be Wild. I agree, I used to like this song for the first 25,000 times that I heard it. |
| keller1 (In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby) | Posted: Oct 07, 2009 - 22:08 jagdriver wrote: Well, Born To Be Wild I fully understand....... Thanks for the support ... |
| lmic (Narrow Minded Couch Potato) | Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 11:45 jagdriver wrote:  Ed Sullivan insists the Rolling Stones sing Let's Spend Some Time Together....James Laid video: "She only sings when she's on top." |
| tom-kenna (pompano beach) | Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 11:17 What male hasn't had a crush on a brown eyed girl. This song has universal appeal. Also love the guitar riff. |
| copymonkey (in the northeast, but not near anywhere cool) | Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 11:17 David_Murray wrote: Interesting that RP would decide to play the PC version of this song, vs the original that contains the lyrics," Making love in the green grass, behind the stadium:" Guess it is just part of living in a PC world..... If Bill did indeed get this song from the Greatest Hits CD, he would have gotten the 'cleaned up version'. For some reason whomever put that package together didn't bother looking for the original. Sad really, since there are multiple takes of "Brown Eyed Girl" readily available on Bang records compilations, soundtracks and elsewhere. |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 11:17 lmic wrote: Great post. Censorship is so lame. Ed Sullivan insists the Rolling Stones sing Let's Spend Some Time Together.... |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 11:15 keller1 wrote: I'm sure this used to be a great song ... Speaking personally after having played this probably a thousand times in probably ten different bar bands, I get kind of Tourette like tics whenever I hear it now. Same with Mustang Sally and Born To Be Wild. Well, Born To Be Wild I fully understand....... |
| lmic (Narrow Minded Couch Potato) | Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 11:14 bjrubble wrote: Is there any way to substitute the real version of the song for this bowdlerized version? Apart from being turned off by the very reminder of 50s-era "morality" (heaven forfend that our racist, sexist, jingoistic culture be threatened by a love song that mentions sex!) the substitution is really noticeable on a purely technical level — there's a very distinct shift in tone when the switchover happens. Other than that, I like the song. Great post. Censorship is so lame. |
| keller1 (In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby) | Posted: Jul 17, 2009 - 08:37 I'm sure this used to be a great song ... Speaking personally after having played this probably a thousand times in probably ten different bar bands, I get kind of Tourette like tics whenever I hear it now. Same with Mustang Sally and Born To Be Wild. |
| renostve999 | Posted: Jun 15, 2009 - 12:53 FLASHBACK ALERT!!!!!! Reminds me of KTSA-AM radio out of San Antonio Texas....I think Hemisfare '68 was going on that summer and my family and I piled into our '67 Plymouth Fury II for an epic road trip to see what all the hoop-la was about in San Antone. Van Morrison and "Brown Eyed Girl" musta played on that scratchy radio 100 times on the way up there and 100 times on the way back. I still love that song...because it's THAT good and so are the memories that come flooding back whenever I hear it! Plus, I had a crush on a brown eyed girl at the time...Hi, Lisa  how-ya-doin'?8—>9 |
| macadavy (Cascadia's attic, eh?) | Posted: May 14, 2009 - 18:28 bjrubble wrote: Is there any way to substitute the real version of the song for this bowdlerized version? Apart from being turned off by the very reminder of 50s-era "morality" (heaven forfend that our racist, sexist, jingoistic culture be threatened by a love song that mentions sex!) the substitution is really noticeable on a purely technical level — there's a very distinct shift in tone when the switchover happens. Other than that, I like the song. Like s/he said: by all means, lets have the real original - it's sooo much better! Sweet bird of youth!  |
| bjrubble | Posted: Mar 12, 2009 - 15:40 Is there any way to substitute the real version of the song for this bowdlerized version? Apart from being turned off by the very reminder of 50s-era "morality" (heaven forfend that our racist, sexist, jingoistic culture be threatened by a love song that mentions sex!) the substitution is really noticeable on a purely technical level — there's a very distinct shift in tone when the switchover happens. Other than that, I like the song. |
| holborne (New York) | Posted: Mar 12, 2009 - 15:37 David_Murray wrote: Interesting that RP would decide to play the PC version of this song, vs the original that contains the lyrics," Making love in the green grass, behind the stadium:" Guess it is just part of living in a PC world..... Yeah, sheesh. Like "making love" is too racy or something? |
| David_Murray (Maine) | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 10:13 Interesting that RP would decide to play the PC version of this song, vs the original that contains the lyrics," Making love in the green grass, behind the stadium:" Guess it is just part of living in a PC world..... |
| vivakitty (The Girl Who Wrecks Your Dreams) | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 10:13 Would like it better if it weren't the default song for wooing every brown eyed girl. |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 10:12  The pure joy of living! |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Jan 08, 2009 - 10:11 jlind wrote: It's played so often because its a modern classic. There are quite a few other Van Morrison songs in the rotation as well.  Forever driving around in the convertible Mustang in the mid-'60s..... |