Woodstock ... By: Joni Mitchell

Monday August 18, 2009
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Woodstock

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Verse & Musis by Joni Mitchell
also recorded by Joni
Rock'n'Roll version by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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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

Said, I'm going down to Yasgur's Farm,

Gonna 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 somethin' turning.

And maybe it's the time of year,

Yes and 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 death planes

Riding shotgun in the sky,

Turning into butterflies

Above our nation.

We are stardust, we are golden,

We are caught in the devils bargain,

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
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Blogmeister’s Note:

You know, when you hear these lyrics – you can just imagine seeing Ms. Mitchell tripping along at the Woodstock Festival.
But that is not the case. You see, Joni’s management team had her booked to appear on the hugely popular Dick Cavett Show on the Monday following Woodstock.

And there was great concern that she would not be able to escape the traffic woes that were present there.
And it was decided that she would stay in Manhattan and miss the entire festival.
She wrote these facinating and chilling lyrics
* while sitting in her hotel room *
just days before that event.
And ..
being that she had been dating Stephen Stills AND David Crosby,
she played the song for them and asked that they perform it, there.
AMAZING; is it not ?


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To watch & listen to Joni Mitchell sing live with her band in 1979 ..
from The Concert (Film) "Refuge of the Roads"

click here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuISB2ksnMM&feature=related


and / or to hear the hugely popular studio version by
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQQgF0p_kk




LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

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