<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Brown Eyed Girl" An 18 - second audio sample of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> The song's nostalgic lyrics about a former love were considered too suggestive at the time to be played on many radio stations . A radio - edit of the song was released which removed the lyrics "making love in the green grass", replacing them with "laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey" from a previous verse . This edited version appears on some copies of the compilation album The Best of Van Morrison . However the remastered CD seems to have the bowdlerised lyrics in the packaging but the original "racy" lyrics on the disc . Lyrically, it "shows early hints of the idealized pastoral landscapes that would flow through his songs through the decades, a tendency that links him to the Romantic poets, whom Morrison has cited as an influence" according to music journalist Erik Hage . </P> <P> Because of a contract he signed with Bang Records without legal advice, Morrison states that he has never received any royalties for writing or recording this song . The contract made him liable for virtually all recording expenses incurred for all of his Bang Records recordings before royalties would be paid, and after those expenses were recouped, the revenue would become the "subject of some highly creative accounting". Morrison vented frustration about this unjust contract in his sarcastic nonsense song "The Big Royalty Check". Morrison has stated that "Brown Eyed Girl" is not among his favourite songs, remarking "it's not one of my best . I mean I've got about 300 songs that I think are better". </P>

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