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
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
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The lyrics in Joni Mitchell's song Woodstock seem to refer to Eden...“We are stardust, we are golden and we have to get back to the garden.”
Here Joni Mitchell appears to introduce a cryptic reference to Eden when she sings "...And we've got to get back to the Garden..."
Eden is a reference to sacred space written of in Genesis chapter two and a reference to the Garden that was originally "Eden.
"Eden" existed only when God's presence was there but it was no longer "Eden" after Adam and Eve introduced sin or disobedience into the world (Genesis 3).
N'est pas?
You posted this 12 years ago. I looked up these words to be inspired today myself.(I grew up in the 60s-70s) I didn't go to Woodstock. (One of my few regrets in my life... I could have) But I went to something more important. The March on Washington. We didn't think it made a difference in ending the Vietnam War, but apparently it did. When documents were revealed about the end of the war, the demonstrators and lowering public support for the war did play a huge factor. That demonstration, which had about 1 million in attendance in Washington DC also made it into my children's history books in this century.
Since your comment/post, in 2007, protests are not "rare" anymore! The largest protest of the planet happened at the first Woman's March in 2016. It was world wide! Los Angeles had 700K in attendance. Since then there are many demonstrations each year. They DO make a difference. People have FINALLY stood up for their beliefs again.
...it's sad that she missed out on this once in a lifetime moment, but what these "child(ren) of God" were actually searching for they would never find in their lifetime