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Version 1 Version 2 Version 3 Version 4 Version 5#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 14:52:11 -1000 From: Harlan L Thompson <> Subject: wooden ships- crosby stills and nash WOODEN SHIPS- Crosby, Stills and Nash G A D E5 G A D E5 G A D E5 G A D (barre chords) Em7 Am9 F6/A Em7 Am9 F6/A Em7 Am9 F6/A If you smile at me I will understand Em7 Because that is something Am9 F6/A Em7 Am9 F6/A Em7 Am9 F6/A Everybody everywhere does in the same language Em7 Am9 F6/A I can see by your coat my friend you're from the other side Em7 There's just one thing I've got to know Am9 F6/A Em7 Am9 F6/A Em7 Am9 F6/A Can you tell me please, who won? Em7 Say, can I have some of your purple berries? Am9 F6/A Em7 Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now Am9 F6/A Haven't got sick once Em7 Am9 F6/A G A D Probably keep us both alive E5 A5 A(2) Em11 Wooden ships on the water, very free, and easy E5 A5 A(2) Em11 Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be E5 A5 A(2) Em11 Silver people on the shoreline let us be Fmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 Bm11/D Talkin 'bout very free, and easy 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 SOLO (play verse chords) Go take a 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 Cmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 Em9 Cmaj7 And it's a fair wind Em9 Cmaj7 Blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder Em9 Cmaj7 Em9addA Guess I'll set a course and go CHORDS: Em7: 0 10 12 12 0 0 Am9: x 0 10 12 12 0 F6/A: x 0 10 10 10 10 E5: 0 7 9 9 0 0 A5: x 0 7 9 10 0 A(2): x 0 7 6 5 0 Em11: x 0 5 7 7 0 Fmaj7: x 0 3 5 5 0 Em9: 0 2 4 0 3 0 Cmaj7: x 3 5 5 0 0 Bm11/D: x 5 7 7 0 0 Em9addA: 0 2 4 0 3 5