I came upon a child of God He was walkin' along the road And I asked him, I said 'Where're you going?' This he told me
He said I'm goin' down to Yasgur's farm I'm gonna join in a Rock 'n' Roll band I'm gonna camp up on a land I'm gonna try and get my soul free, yea
We are stardust We are golden And we got to get ourselves Back to the garden
Well and can I walk beside you? I've come here to lose the smog And I feel as if I'm a cog In somethin' turnin' round and round and round, hmm
Maybe it is just 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 learnin'
We are stardust We are golden And we got to get ourselves Back to the garden
By the time when we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere you looked There was a song and a celebration Everybody was singin' and dancin' and sharin' and havin' fun
And I dreamed and I saw the bombers They're ridin' shotgun in the sky And they were turnin' into butterflies Above our nation
We are stardust, we are a billion year old carbon We are golden, caught up in the Devil's bargain And we got to get ourselves Back to the garden We've got to get ourselves Back to some semblance of a garden