Lyrics to
Sweet Jannie

This version of Sweet Jannie was released by Van Morrison in 1970.

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Oh sweet Jannie
Yeah, won’t you come out tonight?
Oh sweet Jannie
Girl, won’t you come out tonight?
I wanna take you walkin’
Way out in the clear moonlight

Oh baby, baby
Come on take me by my hand
Oh baby
Come on take me by my hand
I don’t wanna stop walkin’
‘Til we get up to the preacher man, hey

I’ve been in love with you, baby
Ever since you were back in Sunday school
I’ve been in love with you, baby
Ever since you was back in Sunday school
And I knew right there and then
I just wanna to be your fool

Oh sweet Jannie
Baby, won’t you come out tonight? alright
I said, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
Come out tonight
I wanna take you walkin’
Way out on a clear moonlight

One more time

Hey-hey-yeah, baby, baby
Baby, baby, alright

Baby, baby
Baby, come on out tonight

Yeah, we’re gonna keep on
Walkin’ way up in a clear moonlight

Oh baby, baby
Come on shuffle out tonight

Oh-oh, baby, baby, baby, baby
Come on shuffle out tonight

Gonna keep on shufflin’
Make ev’rything alright.

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Van Morrison has released many songs over the years besides Sweet Jannie. 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 Sweet Jannie by Van Morrison

The lyrics for Sweet Jannie 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 Sweet Jannie 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 Sweet Jannie - 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 Sweet Jannie 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 Sweet Jannie" means the words set to the music of Sweet Jannie, 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 Sweet Jannie and the lyrics to Sweet Jannie 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 Sweet Jannie, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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