Van Morrison You Know What Theyre Writing About

You know, yeah
Yous, you know what they're writing about
Baby, you, you know what they're talking almost

Facts

These ii brilliant songs belong together.

Wikipedia:

From his 1979 album Into the Music.

Musicians

Van Morrison – vocals, guitar, harmonica
Herbie Armstrong – guitar, backing vocals
Pee Wee Ellis – tenor saxophone
David Hayes – bass guitar
Marking Isham – trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
Marking Jordan – pianoforte
Katie Kissoon – backing vocals
Toni Marcus – mandolin, violin, viola, stroviola
Peter Van Hooke – drums

Live:

Known Performances: 872 / 322
First performance: August 19, 1979 – Bilzen, Belgium / August 23, 1979 – Copenhagen, Kingdom of denmark
Terminal functioning: January 2, 2020 – Belfast, Northern Ireland / November 8, 2015 – London, England

Here is the Copenhagen 1979 version:

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Quotes

A pulverizing rendition of Tommy Edwards' "Information technology's All in the Game," delivered in a style that might be called high-requiem soul, puts everything in perspective, the pain every bit well as the triumph. Information technology'south there every bit a sort of sweet caution, merely the way that the final tune, "You Know What They're Writing About," stands equally a summary and makes articulate that Into the Music is a vastly ambitious endeavour to reconcile various states of grace: concrete, spiritual and artistic.
Both "You Know What They're Writing Virtually" and side one'due south "Troubadours" (with its wistful penny-whistle sound provided by Robin Williamson of the late Incredible String Band) business organization themselves with songwriting as an act of lyric passion and as a mode of testifying to a certain continuity, to a kind of rescuing wisdom. "Y'all Know What They're Writing Virtually" ends the LP with an injunction ("Meet me down by the river/Meet me downwards by the water…/Run across me downwards by the pylons") that uses 1 of Morrison's favorite images — water — equally an invitation to wholeness.
–> Jay Cocks. Rollingstone.com

The anthology ends with one of Morrison's slap-up feats of estimation. Taking crooner Tommy Edvards' 1958 hit, "Information technology's all in the game", as a mere sketch for a masterpiece, he embarks on an 11-minute act of exploration (the unedited studio version apparently lasted a total one-half-hour). Incorporating his own improvised refrain, "You lot Know What They're Writing About", it'south a vaulting exercise in musical telepathy, the entire band locked in tight, following each twist equally Morrison takes a stately love vocal by the scruff of the neck and turns it into a jubilant, spontaneous hymn to love itself. Past the finish of information technology all, he is lost in the transformation. The song, and the anthology, slips away in a muted symphony of sighs and whispers. Having travelled and so deeply into the music, Morrison has finally emerged on the other side, ready for the next journeying – into the silence.
–> Graeme Thomson (The Ultimate Music Guide – Van Morrison – UNCUT Magazine)

It's All In The Game is a companion song to You What They're Writing About. When Van sings the two songs together it becomes his master class. Amongst Van aficionados this song has get simply known as 'Game'.
–> Patrick Corley (Vanatic – The Story of a Van Morrison Fan)

It'southward all in the Game fades into the album closer, You lot Know What They're Writing About. Both songs showcase Morrison at his most expressive. What a surprise – the vocal starts off with a combination of emotional violin and gentle piano. It is superbly executed…again. The way You Know What They're Writing About builds to its stirring climax is particularly impressive. Morrison sings/speaks gently to begin with just you can experience him holding the intensity back. Merely before the two-infinitesimal mark he ups the ante and the brass becomes more than prevalent. I'thou non sure you lot could spell the words (sounds) that sometimes escape from Morrison's mouth at this stage, but it is all good stuff. This is ideal late nighttime music, especially accompanying your favourite tipple.
–> Mark Holmes (Van Morrison xx Best Albums: A Guide)

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Lyrics

It's All in the Game
Yes
Aye

Many a tear has to fall
Oh, just it's all, it's all in the game, child

It's all in the wonderful game
That we know as dearest, ooh

Yeah, yous had words with him
And your futurity's looking dim
Just these things, your heart can rise to a higher place

Once in a while he won't call, he won't phone call
Just I heard yous, it's all in the game

Soon he, soon he will be there
With a small, a small bouquet, he will

And he will kiss your lips
And cuddle you lot, just like that, touch you
Yeah, and your heart will, yeah
Fly abroad

You had words, wordes with him
And your time to come was looking, don't you know, darling
Just these things your heart, these things, tin can rise to a higher place

Once in a while he won't, he won't, he won't telephone call
But you gotta be patient

Presently he'll be there by your side
With a pocket-size, with a small boutonniere

And he'll kiss your lips
And caress your fingertips
Just like that
And your center volition wing away
Mind, heed, listen, mind
He will kiss
Your lips, and, and, and bear on you
And you will feel, yous will experience like you're gonna fly
Fly

Yous Know What They're Writing About

You lot know, yeah
You, you know what they're writing about
Infant, you, you know what they're talking nearly
Baby, you, you know what they're writing about
Baby y'all know, you know, what they're talking virtually
Information technology'south a thing called love down through the ages
It makes you desire to weep sometimes
Makes y'all feel like yous want to lay down and die sometimes
Information technology make you high sometimes
But when y'all actually make it information technology, in it, in it, in information technology
It lifts you right upwardly

You know what they're
You know what
You know what they're talking about
Infant you, y'all, you, you lot, you lot, you, you lot, you lot, yous, you know what
What they're writing about
It'south so funny, it's so funny
Information technology's love, infant
Ain't information technology a wonderful game, own't it a wondeful, oh, a marvelous game
Yes, ain't it a wonderful, ain't it a wonderful, ain't it a wonderful game?
And when there's no more words to say near beloved, I'll go

Y-y-y-y-y-y-yeah
Y-y-y-y-y-y-yep
You know what I'm talking nigh

Meet me downwards, yeah, meet me down
Encounter me downwards by the river, baby
Meet me downwards, run across me downwardly, run into me by the river
Come across me down, meet me downward, come across me by, by the water
Meet me downwards past the water
Baby, you know, I say you know what they're
Yous know what they're talking most
I desire you lot to met me, meet me downwardly past the pylons
Run across me down past the pylons
Meet me down by the pylons
Run across me down by the pylons

Meet me, ah, I said, meet me
I got something I wanna give you
I got something I wanna give y'all
I want yous to run into me, I want you to meet me?
I desire you lot to meet me, I want you to meet me, are you lot there?
I want you to meet me, are you there?
I want you to meet me, are you lot there?
Are yous there, are you there, are you at that place?
I want you lot to meet me
And know, know, know, know, know, know
And know, know, know, and know, and know, and know, know, and know, and know
I desire you to run across me, are you, are you lot there?
I want you to meet me, are you in that location?
I want you to run into me, are you, are you lot at that place?
I want you to meet me, at that place, are y'all at that place?
I desire you to meet me, are you at that place?
I desire you to meet me, are you there?
And know, know, know, and know, and know, and know, are you at that place?
I want you to see me
I want you to run into me

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Alive versions

Oct 6, 1979 – Capitol Theatre, Passaic, The states

March 1983, Grand Opera Business firm, Belfast, Northern Ireland

October 23, 1984 – Belfast, Northern Ireland

January 22, 2000 – Reno, US