If you smile at me you know I will understand
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
In the same language
I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side
There's just one thing I got to know
Can you tell me please who won
You must try some of my purple berries
I been eating them for six or seven weeks now
Haven't got sick once
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 leave us be
Very free and easy
Sail away where the mornin sun goes high
Sail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds fly
Take a sister THEN by her hand
Lead her far from this barren land
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cry and
Stare as all you human feelings die
We are leaving
You don't need us
Go and take a sister by her hand
Lead her far from this foreign land
Somewhere where we might laugh again
We are leaving
You don't need us
Sailing ships on the water very free and easy
Easy you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline leave us be
Very free
And gone
As with most people, I was originally familiar only with the CSN version of this song. I happened to hear this version on Pandora and absolutely love it! Powerful lyrics combined with Airplane's signature style.. it's become one of my favorites. This song by the way is not a cover.. originally written by Paul Kantor and David Crosby.
This song has been upsetting me for 3 decades, it is truly a bitter/sweet piece. so much more feeling than the CSNY version
Wooden Ships Jefferson Style | Reviewer: Zeddo | 12/14/2006
I grew up listening to Crosby and Co doing Wooden Ships and had this idea that was the only way to do the song. I found a copy of the song by Jefferson and listened to it, I was truly surprised to find a refreshing departure from the norm. The spacey almost discordant mix of voices and instruments adds a touch of the surreal that this song deserves. Koukonens whining lead and Cassidy's solid base add to this effect. Grace does her usual whailing as only she can with Kantner blendinng his voice to the whole mix in a great orgasm of sound.
Having said all of that I have heard Jefferson do a lot better but then I have also heard worse.
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