"Tupelo Honey" is an unreserved, typically mystic take on the domestic happiness Morrison had found since he'd married his wife Janet. They'd met during his time with the Irish R&B band Them. She'd already been his muse for several of Morrison's earlier songs.
Tupelo honey is honey made from the sweet flowers of the tupelo tree, which grows abundantly in swampy areas of the Southern United States.
There are allusions to early America and the Boston Tea Party in this song: You can take all the tea in China Put it in a big brown bag for me Sail right around the seven oceans Drop it straight into the deep blue sea And You can't stop us on the road to freedom You can't stop us 'cause our eyes can see 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. Freedom was surely heavy on Van's mind.
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