Lyrics to
Street Choir

Released by Van Morrison in 1970
From the Album: His Band And The Street Choir |

This version of Street Choir was released by Van Morrison in 1970.

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Street Choir
Sing me the song for the new day
Don’t make it long
And remember to sing it the old way

Let it all out
Let your voice ring in the street, now
My fun
Shall be this one to complete, now

Why did you leave America?
Why did you let me down?
And now that things seem better off
Why do you come around?

You know I just can’t see you, now
(See you now)
In a-my, in a-my, new world crystal ball
You know I just can’t free you, now
(Free you now)
That’s a-not my job at all

Move it on up
Move it on up by the window, move it on
A magnificent flow
Lord, let it all grow in the moonglow

I’ll take the wine
I’ll take the wine with the gravy
I’ll ask you the time
And just send the bill, to my baby

Why did you leave America?
Why did you let me down?
And now that things seem better off
Why do you come around?

You know I just can’t see you, now
(See you now)
In a-my, in a-my, in a-my
New world crystal ball

You know I just can’t free you, now
(Free you now)
That’s a-not my job at all

Why did you leave America?
Why did you let me down?
And now that things seem better off
Why do you come around?

You know I just can’t free you, now
(Free you now)
In a-my, in a-my, in a-my
New world crystal ball

You know, you know, you know
I just can’t free you, now
(Free you now)
That’s not my job at all

You know, you know, you know
I just can’t free you, now
(Free you now)
That’s not my job at all

You know, you know, you know
I just can’t free you, now
(Free you now).


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Van Morrison has released many songs over the years besides Street Choir. 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 Street Choir by Van Morrison

The lyrics for Street Choir are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Van Morrison. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Street Choir have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Street Choir - Van Morrison and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Street Choir by Van Morrison in multiple ways. 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 Street Choir" means the words set to the music of Street Choir, 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 Street Choir and the lyrics to Street Choir 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 Street Choir, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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