Crosby, Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships Lyrics






[Intro. (Electric Guitar)]

[Stills:] If you smile at me I will understand
'Cause that is something
Everybody everywhere does in the same language
[Crosby:] I can see by your coat, my friend you're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please who won?
[Stills:] Say can I have some of your purple berries?
[Crosby:] Yes, I've been eating them
For six or seven weeks now haven't got sick once
[Stills:] Probably 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
Talkin' 'bout very free and easy

[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]

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

[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]

Aaaah ...
Go take your 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

[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]

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

[Ending (Electric Guitar and Organ)]





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  1. S.... S....

    12 Yrs Old In /67! What More Could I Ask For? A Frikin Time Machine Is What!🙏

  2. l.... a....

    gee im so glad we are all on the same page .. whoa internect and connecting oddly different , love yu all

  3. N.... T....

    Sister's are more or less tossed out, per my experience.

  4. J.... A....

    Born in '68
    Thank Goodness for the hippies and their inspired music.

  5. T.... K....

    paul kantner also wrote this song

  6. A.... R....

    LULZ! The song rocked though...

  7. N.... T....

    Simply DIVINE and royally apropos!

  8. p.... ....

    I like their music but do not remember this at all.

  9. t.... ....

    This is from the first CSN album, and there is no involvement from Young.

  10. R.... G....

    A truly great song.

  11. B.... P....

    Smile listen see and you will understand. Thanks for sharing this.

  12. H.... C....

    Im 25 glad i had some ol hippies for parents both are gone now but their love shines through all the good jams they blessed my little growing ears with.

  13. J.... B....

    If you haven't really listened to "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver for awhile or by some misfortune you have never, do yourself a big favor and do it. That song is one of the most beautiful and uplifting songs of all time. You will simply feel better and be glad you did.

  14. K.... P....

    The First and the Last freedom...
    It's a small world till you have to clean it.....

  15. R.... F....

    I agree with you, brother! From another brother, probably cut from the same cloth! 🙌🏿

  16. T.... W....

    The uncertainty of youth setting out on a journey of life seeing first deaths but encouraging smiles at the same time

  17. T.... F....

    Oh my goodness, with Joni's drawing to start, with everything going on, haven't we been hopefull and happy, HAVEN'T WE ?!? ...We've been soooo lucky hey ?

  18. J.... L....

    This still blazing fire. Listening in 2019. ☮❤

  19. I.... ....

    Just a small note. This is actually a cover of a song Stills and Crosby helped write with Paul Kanter that was actually recorded initially by Jefferson Airplane. CSNY performed it at Woodstock,and it was on their debut album CSN. So Far is a sort of "greatest hits" compilation- this song was actually recorded in 1969...

  20. S.... M....

    Wonderful harmony, such an important song to listen. Listen to the lyrics, think, imagine. About their best harmony at the beginning. Loved them then.

  21. T.... L....

    Got this album to leave to my grandson so he would know what I was about and who I was

    T.... L....

    That's funny, I got my daughter so far and deja vu. She thought she knew what music was.lol

  22. N.... T....

    Genius in every regard.

  23. A.... P....

    Just excellent music! BUT - in reality, Young had nothing to do with this song - than God!

  24. L.... ....

    Love it....their voices are beautiful, I never get tired of listening to this song !

  25. B.... B....

    Poetry in motion

  26. K.... R....

    No bands today can match these people...or most bands from the 60s. Which is why the day The Stones and others from that era announce a tour most or all all tickets are immediately sold....I highly doubt that 60 years most of toady's music will have that sort of durability.

  27. B.... A....

    there was no "Young" on this tune dudes... Track 1 Side 2... On the Album "Crosby STills & Nash"

  28. A.... A....

    This is my favorite one they do

  29. h.... ....

    Damn, this song made me feel as if the artists were describing the aftermath of the Trump Administration!

  30. C.... D....

    Love 💕

  31. P.... K....

    #BRAVEHEART TRUTH

  32. A.... C....

    My favorite CSN song ever. Too think they were kids at Woodstock.

  33. T.... ....

    predivno

  34. k.... s....

    Csn&y always had something good to say!

  35. k.... s....

    Classic good song❤❤❤❤❤

  36. J.... W....

    Guitar playing (y)

  37. m.... f....

    I flew into a fire zone with this. Must have had about 25 minutes of sheer terror. All of our ships rotating to lift out casualties and re-arm. Not Fun . Do Not Go There!

  38. E.... L....

    These Microsoft Paint illustrations are really helping me to know what's going on in the song.

  39. P.... M....

    This sounds as good in a headful of weed as you might imagine. I know.

  40. T.... ....

    i hate this song

    T.... ....

    Haters gotta hate. *sigh

  41. D.... K....

    write fast or you will not finish before this page goes to another song and all youve written is gone!

  42. G.... S....

    Stephen Stills is an incredibly underappreciated guitar virtuoso.

    G.... S....

    He's multi-instrumentalist, renowned in music circles if not publicly.

  43. S.... C....

    One of those few "unicorn" works of pop music as art that are both integral to their time and timeless. Somehow the artist steps outside of his own world and into the infinite stream of thought and produces art that connects on so many levels. Through the years they have revisited this work as though it is a timeless totem that even they don't fully understand.

  44. J.... C....

    Written by David Crosby while sailing around the Pacific back in the day smoking weed and living,the life...before it GOT UGLY...glad he made it....

  45. w.... ....

    have to give stills the MVP of this song even though crosby wrote it

  46. T.... H....

    I wish I was at their concert with a head full of snow and next to a speaker when that organ is blasting

  47. S.... O....

    I think i just may be the pure reincarnation of a flower child... This is golden...

  48. J.... W....

    Classic boomer music.

  49. E.... C....

    Does anyone else take the line "We are leaving, you don't need us..." as a subtle reference to CSN carrying on without Neil Young? I think of that fued that Stills and Young had and this line always gives me that kind of visual. Amazing song nonetheless :)

  50. s.... g....

    2019...je l'aime toujours!

    s.... g....

    That's true

  51. Z.... N....

    kakav saban ovo ne voli...i jos pise

  52. S.... K....

    This IS just Gut-wrenchingly BEAUTIFUL Music & Lyrics! A Classic! What more can one say here?!

  53. S.... ....

    Bella, transcending❣️❤️🥰☮️♊️🌟

  54. h.... ....

    Stills plays a mean guitar

  55. A.... R....

    Pues esta música es para gue eduguen el oído raza . Ok

  56. H.... -....

    I just turned 20, born in 99. This is one of my favorite songs, timeless🔥

  57. A.... F....

    Neil does not appear on this song. It's from the first album, before Neil joined them.

  58. M.... B....

    Just listened to the Jefferson Airplane version of this song. A lot of people prefer JA. Impossible to choose, really. They are different but both powerful. Yet the CSN version features such incredible multi-instrumental work by Steve Stills. It's a blow-away moment of rock virtuosity--so gritty yet rich.

  59. S.... D....

    Thank you for this awesome video!

  60. S.... D....

    WTF YOU DONT NEED US? YES WE DO!

  61. S.... D....

    Thankyou. Love your creativity

  62. G.... B....

    Prince was a dear friend.. when he played his track "white caps" 4 me, i played this....
    Give his track a listen and see if u hear a heavy influence

  63. A.... ....

    mellow ... takes me to my room when i was a teen and jamming on my cheap guitar dreaming about growing up

  64. S.... A....

    Woodenships! Awesome!

  65. C.... A....

    CSNY: An MSPaint Adventure

  66. B.... ....

    Jefferson Airplane of whom Paul Kantner (one of the writers) also did a great job on this tune, check it out, I think their version was released first in fact.

  67. D.... J....

    Horrible Slideshow, did a 3 year old make it?

  68. R.... S....

    Scott Stewart Danville Indiana

    R.... S....

    when I feel down and out I listen to beautiful music by great musicians

  69. b.... ....

    A beautiful yet terrifying song. Who knows what will happen in the end! 🙏

  70. B.... D....

    STEPHEN STILLS PLUS NIEL YOUNG EQUALS BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD!!!

  71. M.... W....

    Organ and guitar, so lovely together! True music at it's most intense form, soothing vocals, brings a sense of absolute peace, Smile at me please! It's the universal language, purple berries, haven't got sick once! Talking about very free and easy!! You don't need us! so harmonic and melodious, a perfect blend of such great and phenomenal music..go and take a sister by the hand, You don't need us! Wooden Ships on the water, so very free and easy...If you smile at me! The same land....although we are lands apart, we are the same..talkin about very free and easy...Wooden Ships, it's a fair wind...guess I set a course and go...All I can say, it was the best of music and the best of times in the 60's and early 70's...There is NO MUSIC today that can even compare to this.... Long live Wooden ships and I hope a permanent death to the so called "Music of Today"....

  72. a.... ....

    Everything about this song is excellent!

  73. R.... B....

    Amazing song from intro to outro

  74. b.... g....

    guitar so far out?

  75. J.... Q....

    I'm a sailor like Steven and I'm very free and easy too.

  76. M.... F....

    A little known fact-Stills played bass on all tracks of this LP....

  77. R.... B....

    The first album I ever owned was Woodstock Live and this song was live. That whole album blew my 12-year-old mind! This song really was unusual for that time, at least for my ears. Never stopped liking all those acts including CSN&Y. Then, for 20 years I heard one epic group after another. Great time for music.

  78. R.... G....

    Just a beautiful song that showcases all the talent of this great band.

  79. B.... 1....

    My favourite CSNY song of all time, epic guitar!...dark theme, but I like the tune.

  80. b.... ....

    One thing I like about Youtube is that it lets me rediscover great music from my youth.

  81. K.... A....

    best video clip ever!

  82. C.... m....

    wow am almost 60 and still beautiful

  83. D.... M....

    Takes ya back, doesn't it? To a better time and carefree when the biggest worry I had was a report card! Feathered hair and Jordache Jeans. Man, the girls looked so good back then in high school! Guess that's why I was always in trouble. I wouldn't change a thing. What good times those were. Almost makes ya misty eyed..

  84. i.... ....

    My dear friends of this time in space , I can only this studio was filled with the essence of a forever …………..

  85. n.... ....

    I literally cried at Crosby’s singing.. he’s still got it.. LOVE HIM ❤️😉🎙⚡️

  86. A.... S....

    Thanks for taking a great song and destroying it with a slide show that looks lke a first grader created it.

  87. T.... ....

    Oh you mean the blue Jean convention

  88. E.... T....

    Im half orange, half purple and 2% green and i love this band even though im not white.

  89. K.... N....

    Harmony Par Excellence

  90. M.... V....

    I'm trying to figure out how I never heard this CSN tune before.

  91. n.... ....

    Lol.. I just went to a Crosby concert and I was the only young person.. and all the original hippies were looking at me weird 😂✌🏻☮️

  92. L.... W....

    Still here...😎💨

  93. D.... K....

    I saw David and Paul Kantner play this is a very small bar in San Francisco, after hours, back in 1986. About 2 doors down from the famous Carol Doda strip club.

  94. T.... H....

    There's only one thing I want to know? Who won. The answer no one. War is a waste of time. We're leaving on our Wooden Ships. Away from this violent world.

    T.... H....

    War is necessary.

    T.... H....

    Because of humankind. We need to fight for and preserve the greater good, and push out and exterminate evil.

  95. P.... L....

    Does anyone else share the theory that maybe C, S and N wrote this as an open letter to Neil when he left?

  96. C.... M....

    Maravilhosa canção!

  97. s.... ....

    JUST bought the CD yesterday my reason is to use it at the gym during cool down period.

  98. B.... P....

    61 years old and listening in 2019. Great music is timeless

    B.... P....

    Shit, I'm 72 and I still love rock and roll, especially this beautiful song.

    B.... P....

    Bobby Powell me too

    B.... P....

    i don`t get it- why do i have to help you ?