And It Stoned Me

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“And It Stoned Me”

Song by Van Morrison
Album	Moondance
Released	February 1970
Genre	R & B/Country rock
Length	4:30
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Writer	Van Morrison
Composer	Van Morrison
Producer	Van Morrison and Lewis Merenstein
Moondance track listing
"And It Stoned Me" "Moondance" "Crazy Love" "Caravan" "Into the Mystic" "Come Running" "These Dreams of You" "Brand New Day" "Everyone" "Glad Tidings"

"And It Stoned Me" is the opening song on Moondance the third solo album of Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison which was released in 1970.

Van Morrison, in 1985, best explains the song about his real life experience as a child to Steve Turner, his biographer:^[1]

I suppose I was about twelve years old. We used to go to a place called Ballystockart to fish. We stopped in the village on the way up to this place and I went to this little stone house, and there was an old man there with dark weather-beaten skin, and we asked him if he had any water. He gave us some water which he said he'd got from the stream. We drank some and everything seemed to stop for me. Time stood still. For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this 'other dimension'. That's what the song is about.

1 Acclaim
2 Appearance on other albums and DVDs
3 Personnel on original release
4 Covers
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Acclaim

It was listed as No. 682 on the All Time 885 Greatest Songs compiled in 2004 by WXPN from listener's votes.^[2]

[edit] Appearance on other albums and DVDs

It was one of the songs chosen for Van Morrison's 1990 album, The Best of Van Morrison.
"And It Stoned Me" was one of the songs performed on Van Morrison's 1980 segment of his (2006) 2 disc DVD Live at Montreux 1980/1974.
It is one of the hits included on the 2007 compilation album, Still on Top - The Greatest Hits.