Wooden Ships

[IChing]

EARTH JULY 1975
Black sails knifing through the pitchblende night
Away from the radioactive landmass madness
From the silver-suited people searching out
Uncontaminated food and shelter on the shores
No glowing metal on our ship of wood only
Free happy crazy people naked in the universe

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 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

popcorn free

[Madrone]

1. I absolutely adore this song.

:hippie:

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear IChing.....

It's good to see you again.....

I hope all is going well for you, my friend!

What is this song....who wrote it, title, and so on?

It is beautiful.....

:hi:

[IChing]

3. Crosby Stills Nash and Young, honey

Wooden ships

I've been working on a campaign on design and consciousness for my county
my friend is running against a 72 old reptailanina republican, I am working on energy, transportation, education, employment from those synergy of efforts
and saving this area, for the three growing seasons that they give and provide ......before I leave.

and take my wooden ship.

synergy: a mutually advantageous conjunction of distinct elements

[Ellipsis]

4. ...a mutually advantageous conjunction of distinct elements

Them be some long words.

Who sings this line?

"If you smile at me you know I will understand
Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
In the same language"

Tis my favorite. Rings in my head, still.

;-)

glad to see yer post

[cleofus1]

5. stephen stills i think

did someone take the time to re write crosby stills and nash?

[Squeech]

6. Jefferson Airplane

On the album Volunteers, which came out slightly after the CSN debut album. The song is credited to Crosby, Stills, and Paul Kantner (Airplane's lowest-pitched vocalist and rhythm guitarist), and it's Kantner that sings that first line on their version. His recounting of the story is that he and Crosby wrote the song, merging Crosby's interest in sailing with Kantner's science fiction ideas, and then Stills spliced in the creepy verse that starts "Horror grips us as we watch you die." And I think they may have left Kantner's name off the credits on the CSN album.