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"Come Running" is a song written by singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1970 album Moondance.
"Come Running" was also the only song to survive the Astral Weeks demos for Warner Bros. in 1968.
The song was first recorded at the Warners Publishing Studio, New York in early 1969 with Morrison's producer at the time, Lewis Merenstein. It was then rerecorded in both the spring and summer sessions in the same year, before Morrison returned to the track in the September to November sessions at the A&R Recording Studios, 46th Street, New York, that resulted in the recording of most of the tracks that were released on Moondance.[1]
"Come Running" is composed in the key of A major, with a chord progression of A-D-A-D-A-D-A-D-A-D-A-E-D, which changes at the coda to A-F#m-A-D-F#m-Bm-D-A. The song has a bright rock tempo in 4/4 time, which slows at the three bar coda.[2]
Morrison described it as "a very light type of song. It's not too heavy. It's just a happy-go-lucky song. There are no messages or anything like that." [3]
The lyrics "you come running to me, you'll come running to me" were later reused in the 1987 track "Queen of the Slipstream".[4]
Biographer Clinton Heylin remarked that "the lower rung chart success of the "Come Running" 45 hardly accounts for the album's [Moondance] immediate acceptance by a whole new spectrum of young adult listeners."[5] The single peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[6]
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