Wooden Ships Uke tab by Jefferson Airplane

8 Chords used in the song: Em, Am7, Fmaj7, Am, D, A, G, Cmaj7

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Album: 
Year:  2004
Difficulty: 
3.75
(Intermediate)
Key: C, G, Am, EmChords
Em chordEm   Am7 chordAm7   Fmaj7 chordFmaj7   x  8

Em chordEm Am chordAm Fmaj7 chordFmaj7
If you smile at me you know I will understand

Em chordEm
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does

Am7 chordAm7 Fmaj7 chordFmaj7 Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 Fmaj7 chordFmaj7 Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 Fmaj7 chordFmaj7
In the same language

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 Fmaj7 chordFmaj7
I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side

Em chordEm
There's just one thing I got to know

Am7 chordAm7 Fmaj7 chordFmaj7 Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 Fmaj7 chordFmaj7
Can you tell me please who won

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 Fmaj7 chordFmaj7

Em chordEm
You must try some of my purple berries

Am7 chordAm7 Fmaj7 chordFmaj7 Em chordEm
I been eating them for six or seven weeks now

Am7 chordAm7 Fmaj7 chordFmaj7
Haven't got sick once

Em chordEm D chordD A chordA G chordG
Probably keep us both alive

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD

Em chordEm D chordD A chordA G chordG

Cmaj7 chordCmaj7

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Wooden ships on the water very free and easy

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be

Cmaj7 chordCmaj7
Very free and easy

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7
Sail away where the mornin sun goes high

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7
Sail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds fly

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Take a sister by her hand

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD G chordG D chordD
Lead her far from this barren land

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Horror grips us as we watch you die

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
All we can do is echo your anguished cry and

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Stare as all your human feelings die

Cmaj7 chordCmaj7
We are leaving

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7
You don't need us

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 x2

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Go and take a sister by her hand

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Lead her far from this foreign land

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Somewhere where we might laugh again

Cmaj7 chordCmaj7
We are leaving

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7
You don't need us

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 x2

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Sailing ships on the water very free and easy

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be

Cmaj7 chordCmaj7
Very free

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7
And gone

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 x2

Em chordEm G chordG A chordA D chordD x3

Em chordEm Am7 chordAm7 x8

Uke tab by , 30 Mar 2013

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About this song: Wooden Ships

"Wooden Ships" is composed by David Crosby, lyrics by Stephen Stills and Paul Kantner in the late 1969, on Crosby's boat in Florida. It was released on the album Volunteers, the same year. It was controversial at the time because of anti-war message. The song depicts the horrors confronting the survivors of a nuclear holocaust in which the two sides have annihilated each other. A man from one side stumbles upon a man from the other side and asks him "Who won?" To stay alive, they share berries that have presumably not been poisoned by radiation.

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