woodstock

Joni Mitchell

I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
I asked him, where are you going?
And this he told me:

I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm,
Iââ?¬â?¢m going to join in a rock and roll band.
Iââ?¬â?¢m going to camp out on the land
Iââ?¬â?¢m going to try to get my soul free

CHORUS:
We are stardust, we are golden,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

And can I walk beside you?
I have come here to lose the smog,
And I feel to be a cog in something turning.

Or maybe it's just the time of year,
Or maybe it's the time of man.
I don't know who I am,
But you know life is for learning.

CHORUS

By the time we got to Woodstock,
We were half a million strong, and
Everywhere there was song and celebration.


And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky,
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation.


We are stardust, a billion year old carbon,
We are golden caught in the devil's bargain
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.