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| cover = VMcrazylove.jpg

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| type = single

| artist = Van Morrison

| album = Moondance

| A-side = Come Running

| B-side = Crazy Love

| released = 1970

| format =

| recorded = A&R Recording, New York City

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| venue =

| genre =

| length = 2:30

| label = Warner Bros.

| writer = Van Morrison

| producer = Van Morrison and Lewis Merenstein

| prev_title = Spanish Rose

| prev_year = 1967

| next_title = Crazy Love

| next_year = 1970

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}}

"'Come Running'" is a song written by singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1970 album 'Moondance'.

"Come Running" was also the only song to survive the 'Astral Weeks' demos for Warner Bros. in 1968.

Recording



The song was first recorded at the Warners Publishing Studio, New York in early 1969 with Morrison's producer at the time, Lewis Merenstein. It was then rerecorded in both the spring and summer sessions in the same year, before Morrison returned to the track in the September to November sessions at the A&R Recording Studios, 46th Street, New York, that resulted in the recording of most of the tracks that were released on 'Moondance'.Heylin. 'Can You Feel the Silence?', p.519

Composition



"Come Running" is composed in the key of A major, with a chord progression of A-D-A-D-A-D-A-D-A-D-A-E-D, which changes at the coda to A-F#m-A-D-F#m-Bm-D-A. The song has a bright rock tempo in 4/4 time, which slows at the three bar coda.'Van Morrison Anthology', pp.4244

Morrison described it as "a very light type of song. It's not too heavy. It's just a happy-go-lucky song. There are no messages or anything like that." Brian Hinton's interpretation of the song was more complex: "The imagery is just like that at the end of "Madame George", a train passing, wind and rain ... an image of implacable nature against which human life and death play out their little games. Van and his lover 'dream that it will never end' while knowing that of course it will. Even the injunction to 'put away all your walking shoes' has a temporary sound to it."Hinton. 'Celtic Crossroads', p109

The lyrics "you come running to me, you'll come running to me" were later reused in the 1987 track "Queen of the Slipstream".Mills. 'Hymns to the Silence', p.101

Single release



Biographer Clinton Heylin remarked that "the lower rung chart success of the "Come Running" 45 hardly accounts for the album's [Moondance] immediate acceptance by a whole new spectrum of young adult listeners."Heylin. 'Can You Feel the Silence?', p229. The single peaked at number 39 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100 singles chart.DeWitt. 'The Mystic's Music', p.86

Personnel



*Van Morrison tambourine, vocals

*John Klingberg bass

*Jeff Labes piano

*Gary Mallaber drums

*Guy Masson conga

*John Platania guitar

*Jack Schroer alto saxophone

*Collin Tilton tenor saxophone

Notes





References



*DeWitt, Howard A. (1983). 'Van Morrison: The Mystic's Music', Horizon Books,

*Heylin, Clinton (2003). 'Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography', Chicago Review Press

*Hinton, Brian (1997). 'Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison', Sanctuary,

*Mills, Peter (2010), 'Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison', London: Continuum,

*'Van Morrison Anthology', Los Angeles: Alfred Music Publishing, 1999,

Category:1970 singles

Category:Songs written by Van Morrison

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