Wooden ships
by David Crosby and Steven Stills

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Em G A G Em
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If you smile at me I will understand 'cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language
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I can see by your coat my friend your from the other side
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there's just one thing I've got to know can you tell me please who won
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Say can I have some your purple berries yes I've been eating them, for
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six of seven weeks now haven't got sick once probaby keep us both alive
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Wooden ships on the water very free and easy
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easy you know the way it's supposed to be
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silver people on the shoreline let us be
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talkin' 'bout very free and easy

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D Em A G
Em D Em A
G C Em
C Em C
Em C D

Horror grips us as we watch you die
all we can do is echo your anguished cry
stare as all human feelings die
we are leaving, you don't need us

go take a sister then by the hand
leader her away from this foreign land
far away where you might laugh again
we are leaving, you don't need us


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Em C Em C Em C
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And it's a fair wind blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder
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  Guess I'll set a course and go