Flying High - Country Joe McDonald [Live at Woodstock 1969]

Flying High - Country Joe McDonald

Lyrics:

I'm stuck on the L.A. freeway,
Got rain water in my boots,
My thumbs done froze, can't feel my toes,
I feel a little destitute.
Wheels throwing water all over my axe
And Mr. Jones won't lend me a hand.
Up come two cats in a Cadillac
And they say, "Won't you hop in, man ?"
I went flying high
All the way — all the way.
The one that's driving's got a bowler hat,
The other's got a fez on his head.
They turn around and grin and I grin back
But not a word was said.
So I took out my harp and I played 'em a tune,
I could see they were diggin' it,
Then the one with the fez, well he turns and he sez,
"We'd like to help you make your trip."
And I went flying high
All the way — all the way.

He said, "We can't leave him out in the rain,
He just might freeze and die,
So why not put him on a plane
And send him home in the sky ?"
So they took me to the L.A. airport,
Laid twenty dollars in my hand.
Well, I paid my fare, I'm in the air
Flying back home again.
And I went flying high
All the way, yeah, all the way, all the way,
You know I went flying high all the way,
Don't you know I went flying high all the...

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[pizzakungen92]

How does remastering like this work? How can you so drastically improve the quality of a video like this?

[jfrey0725]

@pizzakungen92 cause im like a boss

[MattHatter]

Was this the regular DVD or the Blu-Ray version?

[jfrey0725]

@MattHatter regular DVD version

[TPBXDRicky420]

1:08 The camera zooming out really sells how big Woodstock was and how nervous Joe had to have been since he was just thrown out there on stage that day with someone else's guitar that only had a string as its sling. He was just there to check it out that day because him and the Fish were supposed to go on the day after. Someone was running late and the organizers needed a guy who could fill in for a bit while the person who was running late got there. A by chance legendary performance!

[Elm3224]

OMG awsome quality man!

[Kramnosnits]

Nobody at Mudstock cared that much for chip-toothed Joe Marxist McDonald. GROW UP, hippies.

[jenniferjuniper97]

@jfrey0725 No, seriously? Wish the rest of the footage was of this quality. Thanks!

[TPBXDRicky420]

@KtotheY77 No, he looks like a hippie.

[KtotheY77]

He looks like a pirate or something

[up2space]

is this in the woodstock movie? don't remember seeing this before. guess there's alot of tape of the performances out there that's been largely unseen.

[PSXGAMER22]

@jfrey0725 dude seriously the quality is amazing.......... Are you jesus?

[NammVet]

I got the 40th edition of the Woodstock festival, and it don't show a few performances like this.