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 / I’m going on down to Yasgur’s Farm / I’m gonna join in a rock and roll band / I’m gonna camp out on the land / I’m gonna try and get my soul free

We are stardust / We are golden / And we 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 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

We are stardust / We are golden / 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 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 got to get ourselves back to the garden

[By Joni Mitchell © Reprise / Warner Bros, 1970]