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Woodstock (song)
"Woodstock" is a popular song written by Joni Mitchell and included on her 1970 album ''Ladies of the Canyon''. The song was notably covered by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and became a counterculture anthem.
== Lyrics ==
Joni Mitchell wrote the song from what she had heard from then-boyfriend, Graham Nash, about the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. She had not been there herself, since she was told by a manager that it would be more advantageous for her to appear on ''The Dick Cavett Show''. She wrote it in a hotel room in New York City, watching televised reports of the festival. "The deprivation of not being able to go provided me with an intense angle on Woodstock," she told an interviewer shortly after the event.〔William Ruhlmann, "Joni Mitchell: From Blue to Indigo," (1995) republished in Stacey Luftig, ed., ''The Joni Mitchell Companion: Four Decades of Commentary'' New York: Schirmer Books, pp. 37–38〕 David Crosby, interviewed for the documentary ''Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind'', stated that Mitchell had captured the feeling and importance of the Woodstock festival better than anyone who had been there.〔(''Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind'' )〕
The lyrics tell a story about a spiritual journey to Max Yasgur's farm, the place of the festival, and makes prominent use of religious imagery, comparing the festival place with the Garden of Eden ("...and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden"). The saga commences with the narrator's encounter of a fellow traveler ("Well, I came upon a child of God, he was walking along the road") and concludes at their ultimate destination ("by the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong...").
There are also references to the Vietnam War ("bombers flying shotgun in the sky").〔(Joni Mitchell's website – Woodstock song lyrics )〕
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