Wooden Ships
Words & Music:
David Crosby
[basic riff for verses:]
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If you smile at me, I will
understand.
'Cause that is something
everybody everywhere does in the same language.
I can see by your coat, my
friend, you're from the other side.
There's just one thing I've
got to know:
Can you tell me, please, who
won?
Say, can I have some of your
purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them
for six or seven weeks, now.
Haven't got sick once;
probably keep us both alive.
Em
G A D
Wooden ships on the water,
very free, and easy.
Easy, you know the way it's
supposed to be.
Silver people on the
shoreline let us be.
Em
G A C
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Talking 'bout very free, and
easy
Horror grips us as we watch
you die.
All we can do is echo your
anguished cries.
Stare as all human feelings
die.
We are leaving, you don't
need us.
Go take a sister, then, by
the hand
Lead her away from this
foreign land.
Far away, where we might
laugh again.
We are leaving, you don't
need us.
And it's a fair wind blowin'
warm out of the south over my shoulder.
Em
Guess I'll set a course and
go...