And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison

Video of of a ride along Monument Creek Trail and the Pikeview Reservoir in Colorado Springs.

Cover of "And It Stoned Me" by Van Morrison. It is the opening track on Morrison's third solo album, Moondance, which was released in 1970.

"And It Stoned Me" was recorded in summer 1969 at Warner Publishing Studio in New York City.

Morrison, in 1985, related the song to a quasi-mystical experience he had as a child:

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.

During this song Morrison sings: "...Stoned me just like Jelly Roll. And it stoned me." That lyric is thought to be a reference to jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton, whose recordings Morrison listened to with his father as he was growing up.