Woodstock (Matthews Southern Comfort ukulele cover)

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Joni Mitchell wrote the song and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young famously covered it, but the version by Matthews Southern Comfort was the one I heard on the radio the most. I did this one to mark the 40 anniversary of Woodstock...

Intro: [ Em A C Em ] x2

I [Em] came upon a child of God, he was [A] walkin’ along the road
When I [C] asked him, “Where are you going?” This he [Em] told me:
“I’m going down to Yasgur’s farm, think I’ll [A] join a rock ‘n’ roll band
I’ll [C] camp out on the land; I’ll try and set my [Em] soul free”

chorus:
We are [Am] star- [C] dust, we are [Em] golden
And we’ve [A] got to get our[D]selves back to the [Em] garden

[Em] Then can I walk beside you, I have [A] come here to lose the smog
And I [C] feel just like a cog in something [Em] turning
Well, maybe it’s the time of year, or [A] maybe it’s the time of man
And I [C] don’t know who I am but life’s for [Em] learning (chorus)

By the [Em] time I got to Woodstock, they were [A] half a million strong
[C] Everywhere there was song and cele[Em]bration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers riding [A] shotgun in the sky
Turning [C] into butterflies above our [Em] nation (chorus)

Outro: //: Em A C Em ://

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