In the Garden (Van Morrison song)

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“In the Garden”
Song by Van Morrison
Album No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
Released July 1986
Genre Celtic, Folk rock, Jazz
Length 5:46
Label Mercury
Writer Van Morrison
Composer Van Morrison
Producer Van Morrison
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher track listing
  1. "Got to Go Back"
  2. "Oh the Warm Feeling"
  3. "Foreign Window"
  4. "A Town Called Paradise"
  5. "In the Garden"
  6. "Tir Na Nog"
  7. "Here Comes the Knight"
  8. "Thanks for the Information"
  9. "One Irish Rover"
  10. "Ivory Tower"

"In the Garden" is a spiritually inspired song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1986 album No Guru, No Method, No Teacher. The song contains a line which gives the album its name: "No Guru, no method, no teacher/ Just you and I and nature/And the Father in the garden." Some of the words also fall back to Astral Weeks territory with mentions of "childlike visions", "into a trance" and "in the garden wet with rain". It was a favorite live concert performance for several years and is based on a form of transcendental meditation according to Van Morrison which takes about ten minutes before a person can arrive at a degree of tranquility.[1]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Hinton, Celtic Crossroads, p. 255

[edit] References

  • Hinton, Brian (1997). Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison, Sanctuary, ISBN 1-86074169X

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