"Slim Slow Slider" is the closing track on the 1968 album Astral Weeks by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.
"[2] In Morrison's words, the subject of this song is "a person who is caught up in a big city like London or maybe is on dope."
"The craziness of "Cyprus Avenue" has come home, so that the streets of Notting Hill become 'some sandy beach', in the junkies eyes....We are back in the world of "T.B.
"Slim Slow Slider" was also featured on Morrison's 2009 album Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl, recorded forty years after the classic album Astral Weeks was first released.
Johnny Rivers named his 1970 album, Slim Slo Slider and included two versions of the song.