Wooden Ships Lyrics - Crosby & Nash

If you're smilin' at me I will understand 

'Cause that is something everybody 

Everywhere does in the same language 

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? 

Say, can I have some of your purple berries? 

Yes, I've 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 let us be 

Talkin' 'bout very free and easy 

Horror grips us as we watch you die 

All we can do is echo your anguished cry 

Stare as all human feelings die 

We are leavin', you don't need us 

Go, take a sister then by the hand 

Lead her away from this foreign land 

Far away where we might laugh again 

We are leavin', you don't need us 

And it's a fair wind, blowin' warm 

Out of the south over my shoulder 

Guess I'll set a course and go