With the advent of the internet, conspiracies flew of the song being about heroin, inter-racial relationships, and even anal sex. When a song of such magnitude leaves a burning question for decades, people are going to create their own interpretations. When pressed to explain some of his more mysterious lyrics, Morrison told Cameron Crowe for Rolling Stone in Like Kerouac, some of his prose stuff, how can you ask what it means?
It means what it means. What does he mean? Enter Your Email Address. November 8, JD Nash. Whoever she is, she takes us back, time and again, to a happier time in our own lives. The song may have been about a Belfast girl, but Stuart Bailie of the Oh Yeah Centre thinks the singer may have been using poetic licence. At the time of its release, the song's nostalgic lyrics about an ex-lover were considered too explicit to be played on many radio stations.
When it was released, Morrison was only 22 and his solo career, post-Them was still in its infancy. But Van Morrison still has some way to go to catch up with the act with the most airplay in US radio history. Derrygonnelly should treasure its connection with a hit song because knowledge of the past provides a greater appreciation of the environment, deeper perspective, a sense of identity and strong roots.
By Doreen McBride. Old Pal's Bar in Derrygonnelly. Van Morrison in concert. Sign up for our newsletter Enter your email address below to get the latest news and exclusive content from The History Press delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up. Share this page. And while TV couples were allowed to get pregnant gasp , they must have done so immaculately, for most, like Rob and Laura Petrie of The Dick Van Dyke Show , were always shown sleeping in separate beds. In the blogosphere, it's been argued that the song is about all kinds of other controversial subjects, including anal sex, lesbian sex, and unwed pregnancy.
The only deeper layer of sex-related meaning in the song may be an allusion to interracial sex. When Morrison first wrote the song, he called it "Brown Skinned Girl.
This would have been a hot topic, and it would have made a little premarital involvement behind the stadium look tame. In , sixteen states—the South plus Delaware—had laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The Supreme Court struck these down as unconstitutional in June in Loving v. Sometimes even the law can be poetic. But the Court's wisdom did not immediately change public opinion. Twenty years later, more than half of all Americans still disapproved of interracial relationships.
In other words, a song about the pleasant memory of an interracial fling would have raised more than a few eyebrows and also seriously damaged the single's radio play time. But Morrison claims that he abandoned his brown-skinned girl for a brown-eyed girl almost without thought. After recording the song, apparently with the lyric "brown eyed girl," he absent-mindedly changed the title to match the lyric. So, if he made the decision in the interest of appeasing conservative critics, he won't admit it.
I looked at the box where I'd lain it down with my guitar and it said 'Brown Eyed Girl' on the tape box. It's just one of those things that happen. As scandalous as the song was on a scandal-meter, it was not as shocking as it could have been, nor as envelope-pushing as some would like to think. The song sits tamely between the raw, pulsing power of "Gloria," which Morrison recorded with Them in , and the aesthetically indulgent impressionism of Astral Weeks , the poetic classic he cut in
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