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Woodstock Nostalgia: 'We are Stardust, We are Golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden'

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Longing for Woodstock

WOODSTOCK

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

CSNY..".Woodstock" 1970 - (A Joni Mitchell Cover)
Woodstock,by Canadian Singer-Songwriter Joni Mitchell..

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