Wooden Ships

Crosby, Stills and Nash



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

Prob'ly keep us both alive



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

Talk'n '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

Guess I'll set a course and go