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 {refrain} 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 myself 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 {refrain twice} 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