(David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Paul Kantner)
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One, two (Yeah)... One, two, three...
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[Intro. (Electric Guitars and Organ)]
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Nash: If you smile at me I will understand
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'cause that is something
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Everybody everywhere does in the same language, yeah
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Crosby: I can see by your coat, my friend you're from the other side
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There's just one thing I would like to know
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Can you tell me please who won the war?
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Nash: Say can I have some of your purple berries?
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Crosby: Yes, I've been eating them
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For six or seven weeks now I haven't got sick once
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Crosby & Nash: Probably keep us all alive here we go
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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' very free and easy
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[Instrumental (Organ)]
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Horror grips us as we watch you die
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All we can do is echo your anguished cries
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Stare as all your human feelings die
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We are leaving, you don't...
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[Instrumental (Organ + Electric Guitar)]
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Go take your sister then by the hand
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(Lead her) Lead her out of this foreign land
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Far away where we might laugh again
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We are leaving, you don't need us
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You don't, you don't...
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[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]
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And it's a fair wind
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Blowin' warm out of the south o'er my shoulder
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I guess I am going to set a course
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And you know we will surely, surely go
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[Ending (Electric Guitars and Organ)]
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Wooden Ships
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| David Crosby |
