Lyrics to
Crazy Face

This version of Crazy Face was released by Van Morrison in 1970.

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All the people were waiting for Crazy Face
He said he’d meet them at his favourite place
Dressed in black satin, white linen and lace
With his head held high and a smile on his face
And he said:
‘Ladies and gentlemen, the prince is late’

As he stood outside the church-yard gate
And polished up on his .38
And said:
‘I got it from Jesse James’

All the people were waiting for Crazy Face
He said he’d meet them at his favourite place
Dresses in a-black satin, white linen and lace
With his head held high and a smile on his face
And he said:
‘Ladies and gentlemen, the prince is late’

As he stood outside the church-yard gate
And polished up on his .38
And said:
‘I got it from Jesse James’.

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Van Morrison has released many songs over the years besides Crazy Face. Van Morrison released songs from 1967 to 2005 spanning across albums like Blowin' Your Mind!, Astral Weeks, Moondance, His Band And The Street Choir, Tupelo Honey, Saint Dominic's Preview, Hard Nose The Highway, It's Too Late To Stop Now, Veedon Fleece, A Period Of Transition, Wavelength, Into The Music, Common One, Beautiful Vision, Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart, A Sense Of Wonder, No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, Poetic Champions Compose, Irish Heartbeat, Avalon Sunset, Enlightenment, Hymns To The Silence, Too Long In Exile, Days Like This, How Long Has This Been Going On, Tell Me Something: The Songs Of Mose Allison, The Healing Game, The Philosopher's Stone, Back On Top, The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast, You Win Again, Down The Road, What's Wrong With This Picture?, and Magic Time. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Van Morrison.

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About Lyrics and Crazy Face by Van Morrison

When you decide to study the lyrics to Crazy Face, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Van Morrison. Some of the lyrics to Crazy Face have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Van Morrison and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Crazy Face if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Crazy Face" means the words set to the music of Crazy Face, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Van Morrison. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Crazy Face and the lyrics to Crazy Face are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Van Morrison who came here looking just for the lyrics to Crazy Face, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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