"Sweet Thing" is a song by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released on his second studio album Astral Weeks (1968).
"Sweet Thing" was written by Morrison, aged c.22–23, after he had met his future wife Janet while on tour in the US in 1966 and during the year of separation after he returned to Belfast.
It was recorded during the last Astral Weeks session on 15 October 1968, at Century Sound Studios in New York City with Lewis Merenstein as producer.
[7] "Sweet Thing" is the only song from Astral Weeks included on the 1990 compilation album The Best of Van Morrison.
The song can also be heard in the final scene of the AMC television show Preacher during the suicide of the Vampire, Cassidy.