Van Morrison - Bright Side of the Road

From his 1979 album, "Into the Music". I claim no rights to any of the images or music in this video. All rights remain with their respective owners.
Lyrics:

[Instrumental intro]

From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road
We'll be lovers once again
On the bright side of the road

Little darlin', come with me
Help me share my load
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road

[Chorus:]
Into this life we're born
Baby sometimes, sometimes we don't know why
And time seems to go by so fast
In the twinkling of an eye

Let's enjoy it while we can (let's enjoy it while we can)
Help me share my load (help me share my load)
From the dark end of the street
To the bright side of the road

Cook it ...

[Instrumental bridge]

[Chorus:]
And into this life we're born
Baby, sometimes, baby sometimes I don't know why
And seasons go by so fast
In the twinkling of an eye

Let's enjoy it while we can (let's enjoy it while we can)
Help me sing my song (help me sing my song)
Little darlin' come alone
To the bright side of the road

[Lyrical outro:]
From the dark end of the street (on the dark end of the street)
To the bright side of the road (to the bright side of the road)
Little darlin' come alone
On the bright side of the road
From the dark end of the street (on the dark end of the street)
To the bright side of the road (to the bright sight of the road)
We'll be lovers once again
On the bright side of the road
Well, we'll be, we'll be lovers once again
On the bright side of the road

Songwriter: Van Morrison
Music Producer: Van Morrison
Video Producer: Eleanor Plant

However you want to interpret the song, you'll have to agree that it brings a smile to your face. These days, more than ever, we can sure use a song that makes us smile.

Morrison blows harmonica in this one, and in a March 2020 interview with the Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en..., he said he took some lessons from Little Walter:

“When I came to London in the 1960s, Little Walter was staying at a hotel in Bloomsbury. Sometimes he would rehearse there in the afternoon and the jam sessions I had with him were brilliant.”

What did Morrison learn from Little Walter? "He gave me ideas of what you could do with the harmonica. I had a diatonic version and he said, ‘Play something for me’. So I did this Sonny Terry thing, ‘Hootin’ The Blues’. Little Walter made a joke and said, ‘I don’t play that John Henry shit anymore’ [referring to a traditional style of blues], and pulled out this huge chromatic harmonica and started to blow that. Then he said, ‘This is what I do now!’ ”