Fair Play (song)
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| "Fair Play" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Van Morrison | |
| from the album Veedon Fleece | |
| Released | October 1974 |
| Recorded | November 1973 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 6:14 |
| Label | Warner Bros. |
| Songwriter(s) | Van Morrison |
| Producer(s) | Van Morrison |
"Fair Play" is a song by Northern Irish artist Van Morrison. The opening track on the 1974 album Veedon Fleece, it derived its name from Morrison's Irish friend, Donall Corvin's repeated use of the Irish colloquialism "fair play to you" as a wry compliment. The 3/4 ballad references Irish city Killarney, and poets Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe and Henry David Thoreau,[1] and according to Morrison, the song derived from "what was running through his head", and marked a return to the stream of consciousness channeled song-writing that had not been evident since several of the songs contained in his 1972 album Saint Dominic's Preview.[2] "Fair Play" was included on the 2015 compilation The Essential Van Morrison.[3]