Did Ye Get Healed?

"Did Ye Get Healed?"
Single by Van Morrison
from the album Poetic Champions Compose
A-side	"Did Ye Get Healed?"
B-side	"Allow Me"
Released	1987
Recorded	Summer 1987
Genre	Celtic, folk-rock, R&B
Length	4:06
Label	Mercury
Songwriter(s)	Van Morrison
Producer(s)	Van Morrison
Van Morrison singles chronology
"Got to Go Back" (1986) "Did Ye Get Healed?" (1987) "Someone Like You" (1987)

"Did Ye Get Healed?" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded on his 1987 album, Poetic Champions Compose . It was also released as a single in 1987.

Morrison biographer Johnny Rogan describes the song as "A powerful statement of transcendence confirming that the spiritual dimension to his (Morrison's) music was now an overwhelming priority." ^[1]

Appearance on other albums

• It was one of the songs included on Van Morrison's first compilation album, The Best of Van Morrison that was released in 1990 and was one of the best-selling albums of the 1990s.
• "Did Ye Get Healed?" is one of the songs featured on the compilation album Still on Top - The Greatest Hits .
• The song appears on the 1994 live album A Night in San Francisco .

Personnel

• Van Morrison – alto saxophone, vocals
• June Boyce – backing vocals
• Neil Drinkwater – piano
• Martin Drover – flugelhorn
• Roy Jones – drums
• Steve Pearce – bass guitar

Notes

1. Rogan, No Surrender, p. 367

References

• Rogan, Johnny (2006). Van Morrison: No Surrender , London:Vintage Books ISBN   978-0-09-943183-1