David Crosby Wooden Ships Lyrics

Wooden Ships Lyrics

David Crosby: Vocal, Electric Guitar



Jeff Pevar: Lead ElectricGuitar



James 'Hutch' Hutchinson: Bass



Michael Finnigan: Organ, Harmony Vocals



Jody Cortez: Drums



Graham Nash: Acoustic Guitar, Harmony Vocals



Kipp Lennon: Harmony Vocals



One, two (Yeah) ... One, two, three ...







Intro. (Electric Guitars and Organ)



Nash: If you smile at me I will understand



'cause that is something



Everybody everywhere does in the same language, yeah



Crosby: I can see by your coat, my friend you're from the other side



There's just one thing I would like to know



Can you tell me please who won the war?



Nash: Say can I have some of your purple berries?



Crosby: Yes, I've been eating them



For six or seven weeks now I haven't got sick once



Crosby & Nash: Probably keep us all alivehere we go







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



Talkin' very free and easy







Instrumental (Organ)



Horror grips us as we watch you die



All we can do is echo your anguished cries



Stare as all your human feelings die



We are leaving, you don't ...







Instrumental (Organ + Electric Guitar)



Go take your sister then by the hand



(Lead her) Lead her out of this foreign land



Far away where we might laugh again



We are leaving, you don't need us



You don't, you don't ...







Instrumental (Electric Guitar)



And it's a fair wind



Blowin' warm out of the south o'er my shoulder



I guess I am going to set a course



And you know we will surely, surely go







Ending (Electric Guitars and Organ)



 1969 Stay Straight Music (BMI) / Gold Hill Music, Inc. (ASCAP) / Icebag Music
Corp. (BMI)