8 Chords used in the song: Em, Am7, Fmaj7, Am, D, A, G, Cmaj7
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Em
Am7
Fmaj7 x 8
Em
Am
Fmaj7
If you smile at me you know I will understand
Em
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
Am7
Fmaj7
Em
Am7
Fmaj7
Em
Am7
Fmaj7
In the same language
Em
Am7
Fmaj7
I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side
Em
There's just one thing I got to know
Am7
Fmaj7
Em
Am7
Fmaj7
Can you tell me please who wonEm
Am7
Fmaj7
Em
You must try some of my purple berries
Am7
Fmaj7
Em
I been eating them for six or seven weeks now
Am7
Fmaj7
Haven't got sick once
Em
D
A
G
Probably keep us both aliveEm
G
A
D
Em
D
A
G
Cmaj7
Em
G
A
D
Wooden ships on the water very free and easyEm
G
A
D
Easy you know the way it's supposed to beEm
G
A
D
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Cmaj7
Very free and easyEm
Am7
Em
Am7
Sail away where the mornin sun goes highEm
Am7
Em
Am7
Sail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds flyEm
G
A
D
Take a sister by her handEm
G
A
D
G
D
Lead her far from this barren landEm
G
A
D
Horror grips us as we watch you dieEm
G
A
D
All we can do is echo your anguished cry andEm
G
A
D
Stare as all your human feelings dieCmaj7
We are leaving
Em
Am7
You don't need usEm
Am7 x2
Em
G
A
D
Go and take a sister by her handEm
G
A
D
Lead her far from this foreign landEm
G
A
D
Somewhere where we might laugh againCmaj7
We are leaving
Em
Am7
You don't need usEm
Am7 x2
Em
G
A
D
Sailing ships on the water very free and easyEm
G
A
D
Easy you know the way it's supposed to beEm
G
A
D
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Cmaj7
Very free
Em
Am7
And goneEm
Am7 x2
Em
G
A
D x3
Em
Am7 x8
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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.