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Written for the tenth anniversary of Woodstock, this song, with its new bridge, still stands well today.

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Woodstock Generation (revised) - words and music by Darrell Rodgers

verse:
You gathered together, three hundred thousand strong
amazing the world with how well you could get along
A living example, of brotherhood
now beginning to wonder, did it do any good?
The cities are dying throughout the land
and the people are crying out for a helping hand

chorus:
Woodstock Generation, tell me where are you today?
Will you save this nation, or let it just die away?
Woodstock Generation, tell me where are you today?
Will you save this nation, or let it just die away?
Don’t let it die away!

verse:
You cried out for world peace, and love of fellow man
You said that we’re going to change things when we finally can
But that day is upon us and its the same as before,
Greedy men of power pushing us into war
We don’t care for man-made boundaries but we’ve got to let them know
that death and destruction is no way to go

chorus:
Woodstock Generation, tell me where are you today?
Will you save this nation, or let it just die away?
Woodstock Generation, tell me where are you today?
Will you save this nation, or let it just die away?
Don’t let it die away!

bridge:
Are you weary, just like me,
of this world's tyranny?
It's not too late to put this right
in our children's children's lives.

Teach them how to care and share.
Teach the children everywhere!
Can we unite now just once more?
Remember we once stopped a war!

verse:
The people of the world, are crying out to be free
and brothers and sisters they’re lookin’ at you and me
They know that the next war will tear the world apart
but they need to know that we can make a new start
and build a new world in which generations can grow
free from the threat of war so they gotta’ know...

chorus:
Woodstock Generation, tell me where are you today?
Will you save this nation, or let it just die away?
Woodstock Generation, tell me where are you today?
Will you save creation, or let it get blown away?
Don’t let it die away!
Now don’t let it die...

Copyright 2014 Darrell Elmer Rodgers

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from Woodstock Generation (album), track released August 1, 2014
All vocals and instrumentals by Darrell Elmer Rodgers. A Nod of Thanks to Nelson LeDuc whose wonderful bass line from the original version of this song (performed by our band Wasatch Front -1979) was an inspiration for the one performed here.

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Darrell Elmer Rodgers Las Cruces, New Mexico

Darrell Elmer Rodgers is a veteran singer-songwriter. He has been called the Bard of the Baby-Boomers for songs that celebrate his generation's life and times.

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