Brown Eyed Girl Technique

In many ways, "Brown Eyed Girl" is not representative of Van Morrison's songwriting. Relatively simple, perhaps even "sweet," the song's closing line, "Do you remember when we used to sing, Sha la...

Morrison claims that the title was a mistake, an unthinking and insignificant substitution of one word for another. Originally called "Brown Skinned Girl" because "it was a kind of Jamaican song,"...