Wooden Ships

Written by David Crosby, Paul Kanter, Stephen Stills

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 gotta 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 gotten sick once.
Probably keep us both alive

Wooden Ships on the water, very free and easy
Know, the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline let us be
Talkin' about very free and easy

Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is to echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leavin'- 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 leavin' - you don't need us

It's a fair wind blowin' warm, Out of the south over my shoulder
Guess I'll set a course and go ...