Tupelo Honey Song

This song plays at the conclusion of the 1997 film ulee s gold which stars peter fonda as a beekeeper who makes tupelo honey.

Tupelo honey song. Provided to youtube by sony music entertainment tupelo honey van morrison the essential van morrison originally released 1971. The irish troubles were still raging when this song was written and it s important to view it as the song of an artist who was a product of that situation. Tupelo honey is a popular song written by northern irish singer songwriter van morrison and the title song from his 1971 album tupelo honey. Morrison s lyrics singing and phrasing are so free and natural on the country soul song that it is indeed hard to imagine that the song and the original recording of tupelo honey has not always been there.

All rights reserved by exi. Released as a single in 1972 it reached number 47 on the u s. The title derives from an expensive mild tasting tupelo honey produced in the southeastern united states. After dispensing with the requisite hit here the buoyant r b inflected wild night he truly gets down to business settling into a luminously pastoral drift typified by the nostalgic old old woodstock at the heart of the record are a pair of stunning love songs you re my woman and the hymn.