Festival

(album: San Francisco Dues - 1971)

Having a nationwide festival for fourteen days and nights
Ah, there's fifty four bands on a river boat spot in the lights
Hundred of bands and tents all on the banks of the Ohio
Bandstands floating from Paducah to Cairo
Be over a million freaks there digging the sights.

There's so many beautiful people there to love and cheer
Some of the greatest guitar playing in the western hemisphere
Got the Who, the Band from across the north border
Canned Heat, The Fifth Dimension, Creedence Clearwater
Oh, brother Hendrix, sister Joplin, we wish you were here.

Early in the morning Johnny Cash and old Elvis got loose
The Who, Vanilla Fudge and the Woolies start paying their dues
All evening Ike Turner and Aretha right on the Drifters
And the Coasters and the Loading Zone
All night Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters in a battling mood.

Oh, what a beautiful show, was sitting right up under the microphone
Digging the Grateful Dead, Little Richard and the Rolling Stones
Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin and the Everly Brothers
Bad Bo Diddley and the Beatles and some others
Everybody's laying back and freaking out all week long.