Joni Mitchell wrote the song from what she had heard about the festival, even though she had not been there herself, since she had been stuck in traffic on the day she was due to perform there. She wrote this song crying at home watching the show on television. It was later released on her third album, Ladies of the Canyon in 1970, again in 1997 on her Hits album.
The song later went on to be hits for both Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Matthews' Southern Comfort.
Well I came upon a child of god He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me Said I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm Gonna join in a rock ’n’ roll band Got to get back to the land I’m going to try an’ get my soul free
We are stardust We are golden And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden
Then can I walk beside you? I have come here to lose the smog And I feel to be a cog in something turning Well maybe it is just the time of year Or maybe it’s the time of man I don’t know who l am But you know life is for learning
We are stardust We are golden And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden
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 Billion year old carbon We are golden Caught in the devil’s bargain And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden
Woodstock did have some amount of crime and other misbehavior, as well as a fatality from drug overdoses, an accidental death caused by an occupied sleeping bag being run over by a tractor, and one participant died from falling off a scaffold.
She wrote and recorded the song"Woodstock" that was also a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and was recorded by Richie Havens on his 2004 album Grace of the Sun.
Woodstock began as a profit-making venture; it only became a free festival after it became obvious that the concert was drawing hundreds of thousands more people than the organizers had prepared for, and that the entry gates erected had been torn down by eager arrivals.
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