Ten Years After started around 8.15 pm; played for a little over an hour. While the huge crowd had dwindled quite a bit, those who remained enthusiastically responded to the great performance.
“A little blues to warm us up” and the band begins their cover of Willie Dixon‘s Spoonful (made famous by Howlin’ Wolf), though many in the crowd would have been more familiar with Cream’s cover.
Ten Year After’s cover had appeared on the band’s first album, Ten Years After, that the Deram label had released in September 1967.
Lee explains, “This has been banned all over the country for one word–ball–it’s called Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.” Sonny Boy Williamson wrote it in 1937. The song was on the band’s Ssssh album, their third, that had just been released.
This video is from the Groupies 1969 film
Good morning little schoolgirl Can I go home, home with you? Good morning little schoolgirl Can I go home, home with you? Tell your mama and your papa Big be schoolboy, too
I won’t bore you, yeah Baby, I won’t bore you all night long Yes, I do Baby, I want to ball you I want to ball you all night long Tell your mama and your papa Baby, baby, doing nothing wrong, child I’m doing nothing wrong, yeah
I won’t bore you, yea, yea, huh Baby, I want to ball you all night long Yes, I do, child I won’t bore you, darling, yea I won’t bore you all night long Tell your mama and your papa Baby, baby, we’re gonna do nothing wrong Wrong , wrong, wrong Baby, I want to ball you every night Oh, yeah, come on now
Ten Years After Woodstock
Hobbit
An instrumental written by drummer Ric Lee. Not surprisingly, it mainly features Lee. A live version of the song recorded in January 1973 was included on the band’s third live album, Recorded Live.
This video is. from August 4, 1975 at Winterland:
Ten Years After Woodstock
I Can’t Keep from Crying Sometimes
Al Kooper‘s song that the band had also included on its debut album. As with many songs, Lee doesn’t necessarily follow the “official” lyrics.
Also from Winterland (must have been a hell of a concert)…
I can’t keep from crying sometimes I can’t keep from crying sometimes Oh momma she’s dead and gone And I know I’m all alone I can’t keep from crying sometimes
Early in the morning About the break of day I fall down on my knees child I fall down and I pray I think about my woman My woman who’s long gone
I can’t keep from crying sometimes I can’t keep from crying sometimes Oh momma she’s dead and gone And I know I’m all alone I can’t keep from crying sometimes
Later in the evening I watch the sun go down I think about my woman But my woman Lord she ain’t around My heart is filled with sadness And my eyes are filled with tears
I can’t keep from crying sometimes I can’t keep from crying sometimes Oh momma she’s dead and gone And I know I’m all alone I can’t keep from crying sometimes
Ten Years After Woodstock
Help Me
The third song from their debut album and another blues cover. Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson wrote the song. In 1987, “Help Me” was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the “Classic of Blues Recordings” category.
This video is from the Marquee in London, 1983…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A19OMJ1Q9iU
As deservedly well-known as “Goin’ Home” is, Lee’s performance on this song may outdo it.
You got to help me, now; I can’t do it all by myself You got to help me, now; I can’t do it all by myself You know if you don’t help me, darling, I’ll have to find myself somebody else I my have to wash, I may have to sew, I may have to cook I might mop the floor; but you help me baby If you don’t help me, darling, I’ll have to find somebody else When I walk, you walk with me; and when I talk, you talk with me Oh, baby, I can’t do it all by myself Bring my nightshirt; put your mornin’ gown Bring my nightshirt; put your mornin’ gown You know if you don’t help me, darling, I’ll have to find myself somebody else
You’re talking about your woman, I wish to God man that you could see mine You’re talking about your woman, I wish to God man that you could see mine Every time the little girl starts to loving she bring eyesight to the blind
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I’m Going Home
At the end of Help Me, MC Chip Monck asks the crowd to allow the show to continue given how late things are running. But the crowd is loud and insistent.
Albert “tunes the ol’ axe up…,” thanks the crowd, and says that the song is “I’m Goin’ Home…by helicopter.” Lee wrote the song and it was on their second album, Undead, which the Deram label had released just a year before. While Woodstock fans sometimes feel this is their song, it was a staple of Lee’s performances.
Goin’ home, my baby Goin’ home, my baby Goin’ home, to see my baby
Our baby, how good My baby, be good I’m goin’ home, my baby Home to see my girl
Oh baby, baby, I’m coming home Baby, baby I’m coming home Tell me Mama, baby, I’m coming home
Gonna see my baby, see my baby fine Gonna take my baby, want to take my baby mine Gonna take my woman treats me real kind
I’m goin’ home, my baby I’m goin’ home, to see my baby Goin’ home, my baby
Gonna see my baby, see my baby fine Take my baby, take my baby mine Gonna tell your mama how good that love of ours
I’m goin’ home, to see my baby I’m goin’ home, to see my baby Oh, baby ooh
Want to take you back, take where love belong Treat me baby, treat, don’t treat me wrong
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It depended where Americans lived that began to determine the incidence of COVID cases and deaths: declining in some places allowed many to have the sense that their lives could be lived normally again, but increasing elsewhere.
Outside the US, it was the same story, only where it was worse it was much worse.
3,898,466 COVID Deaths Worldwide
June 22: 179,920,639 cases; 3,898,466 deaths worldwide
617,968 COVID Deaths USA
June 22: 34,436,062 cases; 617,968 deaths in the US
Home to just over 2.7 percent of the world’s population, Brazil accounted for nearly 13 percent of recorded fatalities, and the situation there was not easing.
States with below-average vaccination rates have almost triple the rate of new Covid-19 cases compared to states with above-average vaccination rates, according to new data from Johns Hopkins University.
States with lower rates of vaccination had reported an average of 6 new cases per 100,000 residents every day over the past week, according to Johns Hopkins.
States with higher vaccination rates reported an average of 2.2 new cases per 100,000 residents each day over the past week. [CNN article]
4,000,563 COVID Deaths Worldwide
July 5: 184,918,656 cases; 4,000,563 deaths worldwide
621,335 COVID Deaths USA
July 5: 34,598,361 cases; 621,335 deaths in the US
% Vaccinated in the USA
July 5: 54.9% at least once; 47.4% both
Summer 2021 COVID 19
4 million plus
July 8, 2021: the world’s known coronavirus death toll passed four million on Thursday, a loss roughly equivalent to the population of Los Angeles, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Those are officially reported figures, which are widely believed to undercount pandemic-related deaths.
“The numbers may not tell the complete story, and yet they’re still really staggering numbers globally,” said Jennifer B. Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. [NYT article]
The country’s outlook remained far better than at previous points in the pandemic: Nearly half of all Americans were fully vaccinated, cases and hospitalizations remained at a fraction of their peak and deaths were occurring at some of the lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic.
Yet infections were rising in almost every state. Daily case numbers had increased at least 15 percent over the last two weeks in 49 states, including 19 states that are reporting at least twice as many new cases a day. Full-fledged outbreaks have emerged in a handful of places with relatively low vaccination rates, including Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana and Nevada.[NYT article]
4,077,275 COVID Deaths Worldwide
July 14: 189,339,902 cases; 4,077,275 deaths worldwide
623,838 COVID Deaths USA
July 14: 34,848,068 cases; 623,838 deaths in the US
Cases, hospitalizations and deaths remained far below the winter of 2020’s peak and vaccines were effective against Delta, but the agency’s director, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, urged people to get fully vaccinated, pleading for people to do it for their family and community.
The number of new virus cases was likely to increase in the coming weeks, and those cases were likely to be concentrated in areas with low vaccine coverage, officials said at a White House briefing on the pandemic.
Dr. Walensky added that “we are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage, because unvaccinated people are at risk, and communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well.” [NYT article]
African countries left with scarce vaccine supplies
The more contagious Delta variant was sweeping across the continent. Namibia and Tunisia reported more deaths per capita than any other country. Hospitals across the continent were filling up, oxygen supplies and medical workers were stretched thin, and recorded deaths jumped 40 percent last week alone.
But only about 1 percent of Africans had been fully vaccinated. And even the African Union’s modest goal of inoculating 20 percent of the population by the end of this year seemed out of reach.
Rich nations had bought up most doses long into the future, often far more than they could conceivably need. Hundreds of millions of shots from a global vaccine-sharing effort had failed to materialize. [NYT article]
Unnecessary Predicament
July 25, 2021: Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the United States was in an “unnecessary predicament” of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta variant.
“We’re going in the wrong direction,” said Fauci, describing himself as “very frustrated.”
He said recommending that the vaccinated wear masks was “under active consideration” by the government’s leading public health officials. Also, booster shots might be suggested for people with suppressed immune systems who have been vaccinated, Fauci said. [AP article]
Summer 2021 COVID 19
4,174,999 COVID Deaths Worldwide
July 25: 194,802,376 cases; 4,174,999 deaths worldwide
626,762 COVID Deaths USA
July 14: 35,199,465 cases; 626,762 deaths in the US
% Vaccinated in the USA
July 14: 56.4% at least once; 48.8% fully
Masks Back On
July 27, 2021: revising a decision made just two months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that people vaccinated against the coronavirus should resume wearing masks in public indoor spaces in parts of the country where the virus is surging.
C.D.C. officials also called for universal masking for teachers, staff, students and visitors in schools, regardless of vaccination status and community transmission of the virus. With additional precautions, schools nonetheless should return to in-person learning in the fall. [NYT article]
Federal Employee Mandate
July 29, 2021: President Biden announced that all civilian federal employees must be vaccinated against the coronavirus or be forced to submit to regular testing, social distancing, mask requirements and restrictions on most travel. [NYT article]
Vaccinated Breakthroughs
July 30, 2021: when revising its mask guidance earlier in the week to urge even vaccinated people to wear masks indoors in much of the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was criticized for not citing data in making that move.
On this date the CDC presented a study detailing a COVID-19 outbreak that started July 3 in Provincetown, Mass., involving 469 cases. It found that three-quarters of cases occurred in fully vaccinated people. Massachusetts had a high rate of vaccination: about 69% among eligible adults in the state at the time of the study.
It also found no significant difference in the viral load present in the breakthrough infections occurring in fully vaccinated people and the other cases, suggesting the viral load of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with the coronavirus is similar. [NPR article]
Summer 2021 COVID 19
70% of American adults
The U.S. finally reached President Joe Biden’s goal of getting at least one COVID-19 shot into 70% of American adults — a month late and amid a fierce surge by the delta variant that was swamping hospitals and leading to new mask rules and mandatory vaccinations around the country.
In a major retreat in the Deep South, Louisiana ordered nearly everyone, vaccinated or not, to wear masks again in all indoor public settings, including schools and colleges. And other cities and states likewise moved to reinstate precautions to counter a crisis blamed on the fast-spreading variant and stubborn resistance to getting the vaccine.
“As quickly as we can discharge them they’re coming in and they’re coming in very sick. We started seeing entire families come down,” lamented Dr. Sergio Segarra, chief medical officer of Baptist Hospital Miami. The Florida medical-center chain reported an increase of over 140% in the past two weeks in the number of people now hospitalized with the virus. [AP story]
4,248,364 COVID Deaths Worldwide
August 2: 199,565,656 cases; 4,248,364 deaths worldwide
629,862 COVID Deaths USA
August 2: 35,895,980 cases; 629,862 deaths in the US
% Vaccinated in the USA
August 2: 57.7% at least once; 49.6% fully
Summer 2021 COVID 19
200 Million Cases Worldwide
August 4, 2021: according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, the known total of global coronavirus infections surpassed 200 million this date , a daunting figure that also fails to capture how far the virus has embedded itself within humanity.
While always an imperfect measure of a virus that causes no symptoms in large parts of the populations it infects, case counts had provided a useful tool for much of the pandemic — like a flashing red light in the cockpit of a jetliner warning of imminent danger.
A surge in case numbers had in most cases been followed by a crush of people crowding emergency rooms and, several weeks later, a rise in fatalities.
The official tally stands at more than 614,000 deaths in the United States. More than 550,000 in Brazil. More than 425,000 in India. Mexico has recorded more than 240,000 fatalities, and Peru nearly 200,000. Britain, Colombia, France, Italy, and Russia have all recorded well north of 100,000 deaths. The global toll as of Wednesday was 4.2 million, itself a rough estimate given the discrepancies in the way nations record Covid-19 deaths.
Pandemic of the Unvaccinated
August 9, 2021: the NY Times reported that for the first time since February, the United States averaged more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day, a resurgence that hit especially hard in states where large portions of the population remained unvaccinated.
The pace of new case reports slowed in the spring as vaccination efforts picked up speed. A cautious optimism returned, and the summer was supposed to bring a joyous rebound to normalcy, but the seven-day average of new case reports had doubled in the last two weeks, according to a New York Times database, and deaths had nearly doubled, to an average of 516 a day.
The surge was tied to the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus. Vaccines provide a high degree of protection against the variant, which was first detected in India, but only half of the U.S. population was fully vaccinated.
August 22: 212,561,545 cases; 4,443,984 deaths worldwide
645,058 COVID Deaths USA
August 22: 38,545,144 cases; 645,058 deaths in the US
% Vaccinated in the USA
August 22: 60.7% at least once; 51.5% fully
Summer 2021 COVID 19
Full Pfizer approval
August 23, 2021: the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for people 16 and older, making it the first to move beyond emergency use status in the United States.
The decision set off a cascade of vaccine requirements by hospitals, colleges, corporations and other organizations. United Airlines had recently announced that it would require its employees to show proof of vaccination within five weeks of regulatory approval.
Oregon had also adopted a similar requirement for all state workers, as had a host of universities in states from Louisiana to Minnesota. The Pentagon had said it would mandate the shots for the country’s 1.3 million active-duty troops once the Pfizer approval came through.
The approval came as the nation’s fight against the pandemic intensified again, with the highly infectious Delta variant dramatically slowing the progress that the country had made over the first half of the year. The Biden administration hoped the development would motivate at least some of the roughly 85 million unvaccinated Americans who are eligible for shots to get them. [NYT article]
4,620,069 COVID Deaths Worldwide
September 9: 224,008,902 cases; 4,620,069 deaths worldwide
674,547 COVID Deaths USA
September 9: 41,561,156 cases; 674,547 deaths in the US
% Vaccinated in the USA
September 9: 62.7% at least once; 53.4% fully
Summer 2021 COVID 19
Vaccinations Effective
September 10, 2021: a day after President Biden issued broad vaccine mandates aimed at propelling American workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, federal health officials released a handful of studies highlighting how effective the shots are at preventing infections, hospitalizations and deaths — even while the highly contagious Delta variant has been dominant.
Three studies that drew data from different U.S. regions evaluated the protective power of the vaccines. One looked at more than 600,000 virus cases in 13 states, representing about one quarter of the U.S. population, between April and July, and concluded that individuals who were not fully vaccinated were far more susceptible to infection and death from the virus.
Theywere 4.5 times more likely than vaccinated individuals to become infected, 10 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die from the coronavirus, the study found.
Vaccine protection against hospitalization and death remained strong even when the Delta variant was the dominant form of infection. But the vaccines’ effectiveness in preventing infection dropped from 91 percent to 78 percent, the study found. [NYT article]
After the rain delay, Country Joe and the Fish started around 6.30 pm and played a little over an hour. It was, of course, the second time that Joe McDonald had performed after his initially low key performance that finished with a rousing and historic “Fish” Cheer > I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag. The Fish will do the same, but with so many wet, tired, muddy, hungry attendees having to leave, the second time was less rousing than the first.
McDonald’s solo performance of Fixin’ will be included in and a highlight of the Woodstock movie released the following year.
Band personnel:
Country Joe McDonald: guitar, vocals
Barry “the Fish” Melton: guitar
Mark Kapner: keyboards
Doug Metzner: bass
Greg “Duke” Dewey: drums
Setlist:
Rock & Soul Music
(Thing Called) Love
Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
Sing, Sing, Sing
Summer Dresses
Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife
Silver and Gold
Maria
The Love Machine
Ever Since You Told Me That You Love Me (I’m a Nut)
Crystal Blues
Rock & Soul Music (Reprise)
“Fish” Cheer > I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag
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Rock & Soul Music
Together album cover. Album recorded in November 1967 and released on Vanguard Records in August 1968.
From the band’s “Together” album, the song was written by the band as it existed in 1967: Joe McDonald, Barry Melton, David Cohen, Bruce Barthol, and Gary Chicken Hersh.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. We’re certainly delighted to be here today. Like to start off our portion of the show by giving you a taste of a little something we call rock and soul music.
Your love is like a rainbow
Your love is like a rainbow now
Your love is like a rainbow, I said
Falling all around my shoulders…
Marijuana!
(Thing Called) Love
Written by Joe McDonald and recorded in 1966 for an EP. In 1980 released on “The First Three EP’s.”
Well, now deep in my heart baby I know that you care, Deep in my heart, babe, the feelin’ is there, ‘Cause I got somethin’ money can’t buy, I got somethin’ that you oughta try, I got love, love, I said love, love, I got love, baby. Well, I can tell by your smile what you wanna do, I can see in your eyes you got the feeling, too. So come on, baby, it’s time to move, ‘Cause I’ve got somethin’ that’s a stone groove, I got love, love, oh love, sweet love, I got love, baby. Well, now deep in my heart baby I know that you care, Deep in my heart, baby, the feelin’ is there, ‘Cause I got somethin’ money can’t buy, I got somethin’ that you oughta try, I got love, love, I said love, Sweet love, love, yeah!
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Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
From “Electric Music For The Mind And Body” written by Joe McDonald. it had been released as a single. It only made it to #98. According to the Vancouver Pop Music site, “ It was a psychedelic song about a reclusive, intense, esoteric woman who is unpredictable and obsessed with death. The song’s abstract lyrical content caught on in Vancouver and the song climbed to #5.”
She hides in an attic concealed on a shelf Behind volumes of literature based on herself And runs across the pages like some tiny elf Knowing that it’s hard to find Stuff way back in her mind Winds up spending all of her time Trying to memorize every line Sweet Lorraine, ah sweet Lorraine
Sweet lady of death wants me to die So she can come sit by my bedside and sigh And wipe away the tears from all my friends eyes Then softly she will explain Just exactly who was to blame For causing me to go insane And finally blow out my brain Sweet Lorraine, ah sweet Lorraine
Well you know that it’s a shame and a pity You were raised up in the city And you never learned nothing ’bout country ways Ah ’bout country ways
The joy of life she dresses in black With celestial secrets engraved in her back And her face keeps flashing that she’s got the knack But you know when you look into her eyes All she’s learned she’s had to memorize And the only way you’ll ever get her high Is to let her do her thing and then watch you die Sweet Lorraine, ah sweet Lorraine
Now she’s the one who gives us all those magical things And reads us stories out of the I Ching Then she passes out a whole new basket of rings That when you put on your hand Makes you one of the Angel Band And gives you the power to be a man But what it does for her you never quite understand Sweet Lorraine, ah sweet Lorraine
Well you know that it’s a shame and a pity You were raised up in the city And you never learned nothing ’bout country ways Oh ’bout country ways, oh ’bout country ways Yeah about country ways, oh country ways …
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Sing, Sing, Sing
The band recorded the album in January 1970. Vanguard released the album in May 1970.
Written by Barry Melton, the song appeared on their CJ Fish album.
Open my eyes i’ve been dreaming, Open my eyes i’ve been dreaming, After all this time it seems so strange; I woke up today and changed my way of living. Sing, sing, sing, Sing, sing, sing, Sing me a love song, Sing me a love song. Last night while lying in our bed Was you who turned to me and said: “Is it really me you love? Tell me what you’re thinking of! Are you thinking thoughts of loving me?” My love for you is something warm, Like silver drops of laughter Giving life and taking form Dreaming dreams of unborn Children by our side. Open my mind i’ve been sleeping Open my mind i’ve been sleeping After all this time it seems so strange; I woke up today and changed my way of living. Sing, sing, sing (sing, sing, sing) Sing, sing, sing (sing me a love song) Sing, sing, sing (sing me a love song)
Country Joe Fish Woodstock
Summer Dresses
Apparently this was the only time the band played this song and I cannot find who wrote it. One can guess it was McDonald, but…
Girls in their summer dresses you know they’re lookin’ fine
Couples walkin’ hand in hand havin’ a good time.
Everybody’s smilin’ it seems like a dream
Everybody’s groovin’ you know what I mean
Let’s get it together, come on and beat the heat
Summer is the time for dancin’ in the street.
Mama Papa told me sister brother, too
Everybody’s dancin’ they know what to do
Now’s the time for livin’ we won’t hesitate…
Country Joe Fish Woodstock
Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife
This song appeared on a McDonald 1970 solo album called Tonight I’m Singing Just For You.
The song is unusual in that no band member wrote this song. Well-known singer songwriter Mac Davis did. Davis would later be a Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, and Georgia Music Hall of Fame inductee as well as a recipient of the BMI Icon AwardMac Davis did.
Well, she’s a friend, she’s a lover, She’s a woman, she’s a wife, She’s the answer to the prayer that every lonely man dreams of. She’s a temptress, she’s a lady, She’s the mother of my baby And I thank God that I’m the lucky man she loves.
Sometimes I lie awake and watch her sleeping And I just want to bust and love drops fill my eyes I wonder what she’d think if she woke up and caught me weeping, ‘Cause daddy’s heroes ain’t supposed to cry.
You know the morning always seems to catch us laughing, We got the baby in the bed between us safe and warm. And I thank the Lord above for all the good times I’m having Wrapped up in my woman’s loving arms.
‘Cause she’s a friend, she’s a lover, She’s a woman, she’s a wife, She’s the answer to the prayer that every lonely man dreams of. She’s a temptress, she’s a lady, She’s the mother of my baby And I thank God that I’m the lucky man she loves.
When the load gets heavy on my shoulders I can’t keep the pace and I need a place to hide, I run home to my own little world and take her in my arms and hold her And I soon forget that there’s another world outside.
Well, she’s a friend, she’s a lover, She’s a woman, she’s a wife, She’s the answer to the prayer that every lonely man dreams of. She’s a temptress, she’s a lady, She’s the mother of my baby And I thank God that I’m the lucky man she loves.
Country Joe Fish Woodstock
Silver and Gold
Also from “C. J. Fish” (1970) by Joe McDonald
Dress my baby in silver and Dress my baby in silver and Dress my baby in silver and gold Now, now, now, now, now.
Rubies, sapphires and diamonds Rubies, sapphires and diamonds Rubies, sapphires and diamonds on her hands Now, now, now, now, now.
She don’t never tell me lies She don’t go with other guys She just wants to keep me high Oh my baby drives me crazy.
Oh my baby drives me crazy.
Country Joe Fish Woodstock
Maria
From their then most recent album. Here We Go Again had been recorded in from January to March 1969 and Vanguard released it in July
From “Here We Are Again” (1969) by Joe McDonald.
Maria, I’m growing so tired of fighting this war, Maria, I feel like I just can’t go on anymore. The sounds we make as they’re dying Hearing their screams and their crying The children, their eyes are weeping We filled them with pain.
You know the reason I joined up to fight in this war. You know the reason I refuse to fight anymore.
Maria, please help me, I feel like I’m going insane. Maria, at night in my dreams I keep calling your name. After the battle is over And I am just another soldier Maria, I’m longing to hold you again in my arms.
You know the reason I joined up to fight in this war. You know the reason I refuse to fight anymore.
Country Joe Fish Woodstock
The Love Machine
From “C. J. Fish” (1970) by Barry Melton
In the middle of the daytime, in the middle of the night Comes a new kind of engine from way out of sight. She’s good looking, and her lines are mighty clean The name of that engine is the Love Machine.
Put some fuel in her tender and turn up the steam, You can hear, you can hear that whistle scream. You can see her coming on down the track, She’ll send little shivers up and down your back.
I know you’ve heard of old ninety-nine Perhaps the red caboose But they will all be left behind When the Love Machine gets loose.
In the middle of the daytime, in the middle of the night Comes a new kind of engine from way out of sight. Now she’s good-looking and her lines are mighty clean, And the name of that engine is the Love Machine And the name of that engine is the Love Machine.
I know you’ve heard of old ninety-nine Perhaps the red caboose But they will all be left behind When the Love Machine gets loose When the Love Machine gets loose.
Now people I’m talking about love And I’m talking about a machine yeah, huh! It’s a clean machine and a fine machine When that Love Machine gets loose When that Love Machine gets loose I’m gonna get loose too, yeah.
Country Joe Fish Woodstock
Ever Since You Told Me That You Love Me (I’m a Nut)
I’ve got to see a doctor I’ve got to see a doctor Cause there’s something wrong with me What can it be? What can it be?
I know it isn’t indigestion It isn’t indigestion It’s just my poor old brain It feels so queer Since you’ve been near, dear!
Ever since you told me that you loved me I’m a nut, I’m a nut! Ever since you said these words, sweetheart I’m a bug, I’m a bug!
Can’t sleep nights, can’t even eat Something’s wrong with both my feet I bump into people on the street Like a fool Like a fool Like an awful fool
Ever said you said you’d like to kiss me I’m a bug, I’m a bug Darling, I’m as happy as can be Oh, can’t you see?
I lie awake all evening ’til the dawn begins to peep The druggist gave me something But I can’t begin to sleep Ever since you told me that you loved me!
The song ends with the band briefly launching into an extremely loud and heavy rock riff.
Country Joe Fish Woodstock
Crystal Blues
From “Here We Are Again” (1969) by Joe McDonald. Continuing the loud guitar motiff…
She told me that she loved me, She said she’d make my house a home. She told me that she loved me, Oh she said she’d make my house a happy home, Ah, but living with that woman now Yeah, it’s just like living all alone Oh, living all alone, Yeah, living all alone. You know i love you baby, Oh, you know that i tried to be your man oh, Man yeah, i tried so hard to be your man. You know i love you baby, You know that i tried so hard to be your man, But your heart has turned to stone, girl. There’s nothing but the devil crawling through your veins. Ah, play the blues, come on. Ah, crystal’s got my woman, Ah, dope is driving her insane, yeah Dope is driving her insane, yeah Dope is driving her insane. Crystal’s got my woman, Ah, dope is driving her insane, yeah. She used to be so pretty, Now she can’t remember her own name, Now she can’t remember her own name
Country Joe Fish Woodstock
Rock & Soul Music (Reprise)
Bookending their opening song, this time the band jams for 13 plus minutes. Here are the approximate lyrics.
We’d like to take this opportunity now to play you a little thing that we learned from Mr. James Brown the King of soul music. Now this ain’t soul music, mind you, this is rock music. But it’s got soul to it, if you can dig that. And now the band would like to play a new riff they just learned, we call a sockin’-it-to-you riff. And it-uh goes something like this. Alright are you ready boys? Let me hear you do it one time just once c’mon Huh! Ah that’s it, do it again! Huh! Oh come on! Oh it feels so good, do it again! Alright, come on! Huh! One more time, come on! Huh! Now let me hear you do it two times if you can. Huh huh! Alright, that’s good, do it again! Huh uh. Hmm alright, come on. Huh. Oh yeah, do it again now. Huh uh. Feels so good, once more! Huh uh. Oh let me hear you do it three times now, huh! Ah yeah, come on! Alright! Four times now! Ahhhh! come on now. Oh, when you hold me, ah Oh, when you kiss me Oh, when you love me It’s alright, outasite, Ahhh! you know that you’re just d-d-d-d-d-dynamite! Huh! I guess you’ve heard all about rock and roll, You’ve heard about the music that they call soul. Well, I’m here to tell you what I’ve been told ’bout the brand new music called the rock
Country Joe Fish Woodstock
“Fish” Cheer > I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag
The third time the song was done that weekend. “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die” (1967) written by Joe McDonald
Give me an F
Give me an U
Give me an C
Give me an K What’s that spell? Fish! What’s that spell? FUCK What’s that spell? FUCK
