1081 – Joni Mitchell – Woodstock (1970)

Escrita por Joni Mitchell, foi gravada em 1970 e lançada no disco Ladies of the Canyon, em 2 de março de 1970. Depois foi lançada em um compacto que tinha Big Yellow Taxi como Lado A. Foi regravada no mesmo ano por Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

Joni não pode tocar no festival de Woodstock devido a conflitos de agendas, mas fez a música baseada no relato do seu namorado Graham Nash, que havia tocado no evento.

Foi regravada tambem por James Taylor, Richie Havens e America, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

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 going to join in a rock 'n' roll band
I'm going to camp out on 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

A versão de Joni Mitchell:

A versão de Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young:

A versão de James Taylor: