It's biographical. Van Morrison was about 12 and with a friend going fishing on a summer day that started rainy but turned beautiful. They swam and fished and afterwards they were thirsty. They stopped by a stone house and asked a man for something to drink. He gave them what appeared to be water but in reality it was moonshine. He got 'stoned' which made an already memorable experience even more memorable.
It's biographical. Van Morrison was about 12 and with a friend going fishing on a summer day that started rainy but turned beautiful. They swam and fished and afterwards they were thirsty. They stopped by a stone house and asked a man for something to drink. He gave them what appeared to be water but in reality it was moonshine. He got 'stoned' which made an already memorable experience even more memorable.