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Saint Dominic's Preview, 1972
Written by Van Morrison
A beautifully arranged folk-rock ode to a fictionalized place and time. The narrator of the song remembers going out into nature, looking for a dog or a rainbow or maybe just to get out of the rain. He thinks back to how much was learned since those innocent days. "Oh redwood tree / Please let us under / When we were young we used to go / Under the redwood tree." Morrison, who grew up in Belfast, is here imagining what it might be like to grow up around the massive California trees. and what they might inspire. With piano and saxophones playing against the guitar, the song has a delightful melody that carries the listener along with it.