Top Ten Banned Songs: Brown Eyed Girl (#9)

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In a couple of hours there’ll be another one of those myLot things that the authorities fear. Details will be forthcoming later. But for now, there’s another song that wasn’t allowed on some radio stations way back when. #9: Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison Back in the Puritan days of the U.S.A., saying horrible things like “making love in the green grass” would get you kicked off the radio. Good thing they didn’t have radio in the 18th century!!! Ah, but they did have radio in the 1960s, and Van the Man got kicked off a number of stations for the line “making love in the green grass” in this song. His record company re-edited the song, using the line “laughing and running” from earlier in the song. Some stations, though, still kept it off the air. Apparently “my, how you have grown” means she was pregnant. (Side note: when Jimmy Buffett covered this on One Particular Harbour, he DID change the “my, how you have grown” line to “my, where the time’s all gone”…not like the guy who wrote and recorded “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” had a morality attack or anything…) It’s getting close to 60 years on for this song, and it’s still around in its original glory. Brown Eyed Girl Written by Van Morrison Recorded by Van Morrison From Blowin’ Your Mind!, 1966 Reason banned: reference to sex Cast my memory back that long: