"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."
-- from
"Woodstock" (written and first performed in 1969;
recording released in 1970), by Joni Mitchell
(b. 1943-11-07)