Well, I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, 'Tell where are you going?'
This he told me
Said, 'I¹m 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 walk beside you?
I have come to lose the smog,
And I feel like I'm a cog in something 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 caught in the devil¹s bargain,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Cost of Living - 1969
Average income (1 person) was.... $ 6,500.00
A new house cost approx............... $ 40,000.00
A gallon of gas cost.................. $ .30
A Fillmore concert poster........... $ 1.25
A new car cost cost approx...... $ 2000.00
A gallon of milk cost................. $ 1.10
A loaf of bread cost.................. $ .20
A concert ticket to the greatest concert
of all time sold for $6.00 per day
*No money, not much anyway, was received that day "at the door".Two weeks
before the festival, after months of work, they were informed by the town
fathers they couldn't have the festival at the original site. So they had 2 weeks
to do an impossible job, getting another site ready. The fences weren't even up.
And the utterchaos was not expected. Three times the amount of people! So
early on the first day, they got on the loud speakers and told the kids that were swarming in that it was a FREE concert. It took the promoter 10 yrs.
to pay off debts incurred that weekend, but he did it!
