Woodstock Page #4

defend their rights..."

"...it's there you find Joe Hill!"

"Swing low..."

"...sweet chariot..."

"...coming to carry me home."

"Swing low..."

"...sweet chariot..."

"...coming for to carry me on home."

"Well, I looked over yonder..."

"...and what did I see..."

"...coming to carry me home?"

"Saw a band, a band of angels..."

"...were a-coming for me..."

"...coming for to carry me on home."

"Swing low..."

"...swing low, sweet chariot..."

"...coming for to carry

me on home. Home!"

"See me,"

"feel me,"

"touch me,"

"heal me."

"Listening to you, I get music."

"Gazing at you, I get heat."

"Following you, I'd climb a mountain."

"I get excitement at your feet."

"Right behind you, I see the millions."

"On you, I see the glory."

"From you, I get opinions."

"From you, I get the story."

"Listening to you, I get music."

"Gazing at you, I get the heat."

"Following you, I'd climb a mountain."

"I get excitement at your feet."

"From behind you, I see the millions."

"On you, I see the glory."

"From you, I get opinions."

"From you, I get the story."

"Now, I'm a-gonna raise a fuss.

Now, I'm going to raise a holler..."

"...about a-working all summer,

just to try and earn a dollar."

"Well, I went to the boss,

said, 'I've got a date."'

"The boss said, 'No dice, son.

You've got to work-a late."'

"Sometimes, I wonder

what I'm going to do."

"There ain't no cure for

the summertime blues."

"Well, my mom and poppa told me,

'Son, you've got to earn some money..."'

"'... if you want to use the

car to go riding next Sunday."'

"Well, I didn't go to work.

I told the boss I was sick."

"Says they, 'You can't use the car,

because you didn't work a lick."'

"Sometimes I wonder what

I'm a-gonna do."

"There ain't no cure for

the summertime blues."

"I'm going to take two weeks,

going to have a fine vacation."

"Going to take my problems

to the United Nations."

"Well, I went to my Congressman.

He said..."

"'... l'd like to help you, son,

but you're too young to vote."'

"Sometimes I wonder

what I'm going to do."

"There ain't no cure for

the summertime blues."

Ladies and gentlemen...

...The Who!

The word I get is that...

...maybe the best thing

for everybody to do...

...unless you have a tent

or some place specific to go to...

...just carve yourself out

a piece of territory...

...say goodnight to your neighbor...

...and say thank you to yourself

for making this the most peaceful...

...most pleasant day anybody has

ever had in this kind of music.

Well, music is a thing that...

Well, you're obviously

not here for the girls.

Oh, that's good, that's a basic

thing, you know, like...

...there are a lot of girls here

and they're probably...

...a lot freer than,

you know, other places.

I'm sure there's going

to be a lot of balling.

Well, you bring your own coals

to Newcastle?

Are you two going together

or are you just hitching together?

We've lived together for about

four months, or five months.

You know, with a lot of other people.

Kind of what you'd call...

...a communal thing, or someone

else would call a communal thing.

But it's just, we just live together...

...and so we just decided to come down

together because we were coming here.

And like there's nothing, I mean,

no definite thing about...

We're not necessarily going to be

together throughout the whole thing.

So you're not particularly

jealous of him?

Are you two going together?

But you two came up here together.

You like that?

Yeah, I like her.

I love her. I enjoy her.

What do you think about all this?

Well, the way I look at it...

...like I've known Jerry for what?

Four or five, six months now.

When he moved into the family group...

...that I was alr...

that I already knew for quite a while...

...in that time, I got to know him

real well and I learned to love him.

Like, you know, we ball

and everything, but...

...it's really a pretty good thing because

I have plenty, there's plenty of freedom.

Because if we're not going together and

we're not in love or anything like that...

Can you communicate

with your parents?

I can communicate with

them on, on one level.

Now that I've been away

from home for two years.

But at first it was very rough.

Now...

...they, you know, they're beginning

to mellow about it.

It's not so hard on them I'm the way I am.

But I can't really communicate to them...

...about anything that's really important

because they just could not understand it.

My mother is really, she really...

...lives in a lot of pain...

...because she's sure I'm going to

go to hell and there's nothing I can do...

...to tell her that there is,

that it just does not exist for me.

So l, there's no communication

on, on those levels.

My father was asking whether I was in a

communist training camp or something...

...in, in the house that I lived in.

I could understand, you know, where

he came from. Because when he...

...well, he's an immigrant, you know.

And so he came over here

to better himself...

...economically and so forth,

and all that other rot.

And, to make it better for me and he can't

understand why I didn't play, you know...

...saying, "Why aren't

you playing the game?"

"Here's all this opportunity.

Here's, here are all these things...

...which have so much value."

But they only have value to him...

...and he can't understand

why they don't have value to me.

But he does have wisdom enough

to know, to allow me to be who I am.

I guess he had some kind of

idea in his head that...

...I will, by doing what I'm doing,

learn for myself how to live.

And that's what he wants me to do,

anyway.

So he, he can't understand

why I am the way I am...

...but he, he very much wants

me to be that way.

Because he knows that's

the only thing for me.

He started his trip when

he was four years old.

Really?

Nothing to do with drugs or anything?

Me, neither.

Do you think that's a cop-out or...?

l, I don't know. L, I used

to be into drugs and...

...I was very heavy on drugs, but...

...now it seems like

it's almost contrived.

It's like drugs and revolution

and the united front and all.

You know, I'm a human being and that's

all I want to be. And I don't...

...I don't want to have a mass change...

...because a mass change only brings

around mass insanity.

I just want to be myself and find

out, find a place where I can...

...maintain some kind of

balance within myself, you know.

I'm kind of like the Hamlet trip,

you know. To be or not to be.

Do you think you could ever communicate

with a guy like Nixon or Westmoreland?

I hope so.

They're doing their thing, aren't they?

I don't know. It's like they,

they're neurotic or psychotic or...

...having fun as they say in

Life Mag... I don't know.

They could say the same thing of you.

Yeah, right. But it's not true, because,

l, I don't need all that power, you know.

Where I can just, I can just sit

here right on this roadside...

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