This powerful song builds up and lead singer Van Morrison takes over. Van’s voice and the bass are hypnotic. It was the first song on the first album by Them…named Angry Young Them released in1965. It was written by Van Morrison who would in the future use the word Mystic in a few more songs.
The song peaked at #33 in the Billboard 100 but didn’t chart in the UK. Van has said the band was improvising in the studio and the song was born.
Mystic Eyes
One Sunday mornin’
A-we went walkin’
Down by, the old graveyard
The mornin’ fog
I looked into
A-yeah, those mystic eyes
Her mystic eyes
Mystic eyes
Mystic eyes
Mystic, eyes
Mystic eyes
Mystic eyes
Oh, the mystic eyes
Ooh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_Eyes
That’s a cool promo film. I’ve not seen it before.
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Me either! I thought it was fan made at first until I started to watch a little longer…
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He’s jammin on the harp!
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Van is… he is great
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sometimes his repetitions get on my nerves, but the right songs are out of this world!
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His voice is one of a kind…sometimes he does repeat things yes.
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