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Burning Ground

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"Burning Ground"
Song by Van Morrison
from the album The Healing Game
ReleasedMarch 4, 1997 (1997-03-04)
GenreFolk rock
Length5:38
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)Van Morrison
Producer(s)Van Morrison

"Burning Ground" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1997 album, The Healing Game. For this song, Morrison got his inspiration from a common scene from his childhood when jute was shipped to Belfast from India in the 1950s.[1]

Clinton Heylin calls the song "a potentially important song about a man still caught half-way between heaven and hell."[2]

Personnel on original release

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Notes

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  1. ^ Hinton. Celtic Crossroads. p.335
  2. ^ Heylin. Can You Feel the Silence? p.474

References

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  • Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press, ISBN 1-55652-542-7
  • Hinton, Brian (1997). Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison, Sanctuary, ISBN 1-86074-169-X