BoomerZoo Almanac for August 12-18, 2007: By the time we invented Woodstock, we were 76m strong
OK, not all 76 million babies born during the Big Boom actually went to Woodstock, NY in 1969 for the biggest music festival ever, but a significant percentage of those of us who didn’t actually attend watched the movie, bought the album, and sang the songs, thus foreshadowing virtual attendance. 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 Im going on down to yasgurs farm Im going to join in a rock n roll band Im going to camp out on the land Im going to try an get my soul free We are stardust We are golden And weve 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 its the time of man I dont know who l am But you know life is for learning We are stardust We are golden And weve 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 devils bargain And weve got to get ourselves Back to the garden -- Joni Mitchell
