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Artist/Band: Van Morrison
Lyrics for Song: Summertime In England
Lyrics for Album: Common One [1980]



Can you meet me in the country

In the summertime in England?

Will you meet me?



Will you meet me in the country

In the summertime in England?

Will you meet me?



We'll go riding up to Kendal in the country

In the summertime in England



Did you ever hear about

Did you ever hear about

Did you ever hear about

Wordsworth and Coleridge, baby?

Did you ever hear about

Wordsworth and Coleridge?



They were smokin' up in Kendal

By the lakeside



Can you meet me in the country in the long grass

In the summertime in England?

Will you meet me?



With your red robe dangling all around your body

With your red robe dangling all around your body

Will you meet me?



Did you ever hear about

William Blake

T. S. Eliot?



In the summer, in the countryside

They were smokin'

Summertime in England



Won't you meet me down Bristol

Meet me along by Bristol

We'll go ridin' down



Down by Avalon

Down by Avalon

Down by Avalon

In the countryside in England



With your red robe danglin' all around your body free

Let your red robe go



Goin' ridin' down by Avalon

Would you meet me in the country

In the summertime in England



Would you meet me?

In the Church of St. John

Down by Avalon

Holy Magnet

Give you attraction

Yeah, I was attracted to you



Your coat was old, ragged and worn

And you wore it down through the ages

Ah, the sufferin' did show in your eyes as we spoke

And the gospel music

The voice of Mahalia Jackson came through the ether



Oh, my common one with the coat so old

And the light in the head

Said, "Daddy, don't stroke me"

Call me the common one

I said, "Oh, common one, my illuminated one

Oh, my high in the art of sufferin' one"



Take a walk with me

Take a walk with me down by Avalon

Oh, my common one with the coat so old

And the light in her head



And the sufferin' so fine

Take a walk with me down by Avalon

And I will show you

It ain't why, why, why

It just is



Would you meet me in the country?

Can you meet me in the long grass

In the country in the summertime?

Can you meet me in the long grass?

Wait a minute

With your red robe danglin' all around your body



Yeats and Lady Gregory corresponded

And James Joyce wrote streams

Of consciousness books

T.S. Eliot chose England

T.S. Eliot joined the ministry



Did you ever hear about Wordsworth and Coleridge?

Smokin' up in Kendal

They were smokin' by the lakeside

Let your red robe go

Let your red robe dangle in the countryside in England



We'll go ridin' down by Avalon

In the country, in the summertime

With you by my side

Let your red robe go

You'll be happy dancin'

Let your red robe go



Won't you meet me down by Avalon

In the summertime in England

In the Church of St. John?

Did you ever hear about Jesus walkin'

Jesus walkin' down by Avalon?



Can you feel the light in England?

Can you feel the light in England?

Oh, my common one with the light in her head

And the coat so old

And the sufferin' so fine



Take a walk with me

Oh, my common one

Oh, my illuminated one

Down by Avalon



Oh, my common one

Oh, my story time one

Oh, my treasury in the sunset

Take a walk with me

And I will show you

It ain't why, it just is



Oh, my common one

With the light in the head

And the coat so old

Oh, my high in the art of sufferin' one



Oh, my common one

Take a walk with me

Down by Avalon

And I will show you

It ain't why, it just is



Oh, my common one with the light in her head

And the coat so fine

And the sufferin' so high

All right now



Oh, my common one

It ain't why, it just is

That's all

That's all there is about it

It just is



Can you feel the light?

I want to go to church and say

In your soul

Ain't it high?



Oh, my common one

Oh, my story time one

Oh, my high in the art of sufferin' one

Put your head on my shoulder

And you listen to the silence

Can you feel the silence?


Album Lyrics: Common One [1980]


Van Morrison
"Common One [1980]"


1. Summertime In England
2. Satisfied
3. Spirit