Woodstock - August 1969

It is forty years this week since the music festival that took place just over six months after Meher Baba dropped his body. Melanie Safka was one of the performers. It was drizzling rain and people lit candles while she performed. The event inspired her later to write Candles in the Rain. If you listen carefully to her introduction you will hear her say Meher Baba's name. She had a very loving and consoling voice, both in speech and song.

Little sisters of the sun lit
candles in the rain,
fed the world on oats and raisins
candles in the rain
lit the fire to the soul
who never knew his friend
meher baba lives again
candles in the rain
to be there is to remember
lay it down again
lay down
lay down
lay it down again
men can live as brothers
candles in the rain.

The line "Meher Baba lives again" seems to refer to Meher Baba's passing six months earlier. Moved by the good feelings at the festival, Melanie seems to have seen the event as an expression and affirmation of his life and message of love and Oneness.