going down to Yasgur's farm

Well I came upon a child of god, he was walking along the road
And I asked him, tell me where are you going, this he told me:
(He) said, I'm going down to Yasgur's farm, going to join in a rock and roll band.


{"Woodstock," written by Joni Mitchell

1969, album:

Labels -- Reprise (album release); MCA (original single)...


and was also a hit for

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.}


Got to get back to the land, and set my soul free.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.


Well, then can I roam beside you?  I have come to lose the smog.
And I feel myself a cog in something turning.
And maybe it's the time of year, yes, said maybe it's the time of man.
And I don't know who I am but life is for learning.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.


We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.


By the time we got to Woodstock,
we were half a million strong,
and everywhere was a song and a celebration.
And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes riding shotgun in the sky,
Turning into butterflies above our nation.


We are stardust, we are golden, we are caught in the devil's bargain,
and we got to get ourselves back to the garden.



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