Havin' a nationwide festival for fourteen days and nights   Ah, there's fifty four bands on a river boat spot in the lights   Hundred of vans and tents all on the banks of the Ohio   Bandstands floatin' from Paducah to Cairo   Be over a million freaks there diggin' the sights      There's so many beautiful people there to love and cheer   Some of the greatest guitar playin' 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 mornin' Johnny Cash and old Elvis got loose   By noon, Vanilla Fudge and the Woolies start paying their dues   All evening Ike Turner and Aretha right with the Drifters   And the Coasters in the Loading Zone   All night Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters in a battlin' mood      Oh, what a beautiful show, was sitting right up under the microphone   Diggin' 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