Caravan

Its theme is gypsy life and the radio, both images of harmony. Rogan called it a romantic portrayal of gypsy life and a testimony to Morrison's love of radio. Morrison said the radio detail came from living in a rural house in Woodstock where he could hear someone's radio from a mile away as if it were in his own room, and he had to put that in the song. The studio version has the Moondance band of Klingberg, Labes, Mallaber, Platania, Schroer and Tilton.

A nine-minute live version, with a long vamped passage before the climax, is on It's Too Late to Stop Now. Nick Hornby chose that version as the song he wants played at his funeral. On Thanksgiving Day 1976 Morrison sang it at the Band's farewell concert after Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral. He had nearly skipped the appearance, and his manager Harvey Goldsmith said he literally kicked him out onto the stage. Greil Marcus wrote that Morrison kicked his way right offstage like a Rockette. Eric Clapton said Van doing Caravan with the leg kicks was some of the greatest live music you will ever see, and Robbie Robertson called out Van the Man as he left. The film of the concert was the basis for Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz.

Counting Crows played the song in place of Morrison at his 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Hozier covered it in 2020 for Hot Press's tribute to Morrison's 75th birthday. It appears in 165 of the 2,253 logged setlists that list songs.