Quote #20

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.

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  1. We are stardust, We are golden, And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden.
  2. They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot.
  3. I don't know who I am / but you know, life is for learning.
  4. Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone. They paved paradise, And put up a parking lot.
  5. 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: 'I'm going on down to Y…
  6. They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em.
  7. And the seasons they go round and round, And the painted ponies go up and down, We're all captive on the carousel of time We can't return w…
  8. Hey farmer, farmer, Put away that DDT now Give spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees Please!

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