Mister Morrison – Emission no9 (Mister Morrison et Dieu)

Van Morrison n’est pas dieu ; mais Mister Morrison et Dieu, y a sujet et matière à émission.

Né à Belfast en 1945 d’une mère croyante et pratiquante et d’un père athée,
Van Morrison n’a cessé de se poser la question de Dieu.
Qu’il l’appelle God, Lord ou encore The One, Morrison est un chercheur de Dieu,
“affamé de paradis” (“Hungry for Heaven” pour reprendre le titre d’un livre du critique rock Steve Turner).
Pour autant, y a-t-il besoin d’intermédiaires entre nous et Dieu ?
Que nenni, semble dire Van Morrison à plusieurs reprises.
Avec “No guru, no method, no teacher” d’abord en 1986.
Et puis avec “No religion” parue en 1995 sur l’album ‘Days Like This”.
Pas de guru, pas de méthode, pas de prof donc. Pas de religion non plus, mais Dieu(x), oui.
La preuve en 12 chansons.

Et comme dit Rémi à la technique :
Vous connaissez la différence entre Van Morrison et Dieu ?
– C’est que Dieu ne se prend pas pour Van Morrison.”

1. Lord, if I ever needed someone (His Band And The Street Choir, 1970)
2. Have I told you lately? (avec Joey DeFrancesco – You’re Driving Me Crazy, 2018, duo avec Shana Morrison)
3. When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God (Avalon Sunset, 1989)
4. By His Grace (Hymns To The Silence, 1991)
5. Holy Guardian Angel (Keep Me Singing, 2016)
6. Crazy Jane On God (1983, The Philosopher’s Stone. The Unreleased Tapes Volume One, 1998)
texte de W.B. Yeats
7. Be Thou My Vision (Hymns To The Silence, 1991) trad. Arr. By Van Morrison
8. See Me Through Part II (Just A Closer Walk With Thee) (Hymns To The Silence, 1991) trad. Arr. By Van Morrison
9. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Poetic Champions Compose, 1987)
10. When the saints go marching in (Bonus réédition Avalon Sunset)
11. Rough God Goes Riding (The Healing Game, 1987)
12. No Religion (Days Like This, 1995)

Bonus :
1. Van Morrison, No Religion, Leo Green, Richie Buckley,Ralph Salmins, Dublin 01.12.1995 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kb9f-NZB9M
2. Van Morrison, She gives me religion (live, 1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7QPLS_IL0U

1. Lord, if I ever needed someone (His Band And The Street Choir, 1970)
2. Have I told you lately? (X 2) (Avalon Sunset, 1989)
3. Have I told you lately? (avec Joey DeFrancesco – You’re Driving Me Crazy, 2018, duo avec Shana Morrison)

“And at the end of the day,
We should give thanks and pray,
To The One, to The One.”

4. Whenever God Shines His Light (Avalon Sunset, 1989)
5. When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God (Avalon Sunset, 1989)

6. Across The Bridge Where Angels Dwell (Beautiful Vision, 1982)
7. Holy Guardian Angel (Keep Me Singing, 2016)

8. By His Grace (Hymns To The Silence, 1991)

9. Crazy Jane On God (The Philosopher’s Stone. The Unreleased Tapes Volume One, 1998)
W.B. Yeats

10. Be Thou My Vision ((Hymns To The Silence, 1991)
trad. Arr. By Van Morrison
11. See Me Through Part II (Just A Closer Walk With Thee) (Hymns To The Silence, 1991)
trad. Arr. By Van Morrison

Gospel songs :
12. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Poetic Champions Compose, 1987)
13. When the saints go marching in (Bonus réédition Avalon Sunset)

14. Rough God Goes Riding (The Healing Game, 1987)
15. No Religion (Days Like This, 1995)

Joey DeFrancesco (born April 10, 1971, Springfield, PA, United States; died August 25, 2022)
was an American jazz organist, trumpeter, and vocalist.

Crazy Jane On God, W.B. Yeats

That lover of a night
Came when he would,
Went in the dawning light
Whether I would or no;
Men come, men go;
All things remain in God.

Banners choke the sky;
Men-at-arms tread;
Armoured horses neigh
In the narrow pass:
All things remain in God.

Before their eyes a house
That from childhood stood
Uninhabited, ruinous,
Suddenly lit up
From door to top:
All things remain in God.

I had wild Jack for a lover;
Though like a road
That men pass over
My body makes no moan
But sings on:
All things remain in God.

https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=46042

by William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939), “Crazy Jane on God”, appears in Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, first published 1932

Durée : 01h05’16

Première diffusion le 10/11/2025

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