“We are stardust — Billion-year-old carbon.”
Music and Art Festival, 1969, photo (c) Lisa Law
Woodstock (1979)
by Joni Mitchell
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, where are you goin’?
And this he told me…
I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm
I’m going to join in a rock ‘n’ roll band
I’m going to camp out on the land
And try and get my soul free
Chorus (*)
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 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 up in the devil’s bargain
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Paco Malo
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Mira Paco!
Woodstock was in 1969, not 1979. In ‘69 I was in Dave Mason’s bedroom listening to the album and smoking weed. He won’t admit it. In ‘79 I was on Paco and Melchior’s porch in N.O. smoking weed. Probably for the last time.
Dooley
October of ‘69 to be precise. But, as you know, CSN, coptering in for “their second gig” would not allow Joni to go on the copter to the Festival. Crosby used to claim — before he got clean — that he had dictated the song to Joni.
As you will notice, the lead photo of the volunteers in the Woodstock kitchen has a copyright / “date taken”: 1969. If you follow the song title link you will find that the release date of “Ladies of the Canyon” on vinyl is April 1970.
1979 is emerratumdue to certain short-to-long term memory transfer challenges I work on daily.
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“What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?” - N. Lowe
I can get a laugh, often to the shagrin of Mrs. Dooley, out of just about anything. However, you may place me in the group of ‘peace, love and understanding’ fans. Be it from the lips of Elvis “My Aim is True” Costello, the man who breathed life back into rock music, or the pen of Nick “The Abominible Showman” Lowe.
A litle memory loss can be a good thing, especially if it comes selectively. I can’t seem forget anthing. And I have many forgetable events banging around between my ears.
It helps to get by with a little help from my friends…
Dooley
The song Evils Costello covered — the only cover song — on his 3rd album, (said album originally titled “Emotional Facism” by Declan Patrick “Little Hands of Clay” McManus): What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding? (- N. Lowe).
A 5 star cover ofWhat’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding? is currently in heavy rotation on cable music channels; it is a masterful cover by an all male 5-part harmony Gospel group: The Holmes Brothers.
The Holmes Brothers’ version throws Elvis’ in the trunk and Nick’s ridin’ shot gun.