Well, I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him, "tell me, where are you going?" This he told me Said, "I'm 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've 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 myself a cog In somethin' 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 jet planes Riding shotgun in the sky Turning into bu*terflies Above our nation We are stardust, we are golden We are caught in the devil's bargain And we got to get ourselves Back to the garden