WOODEN SHIPS                  C,S,N & Young

             Intro:  G D A Em Am7 Em7 Am7

                  Em7                  Am7
             If you smile at me I will understand
                                      Em7                              Am7
             'Cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same
             Em7       Am7  Em7  Am7
             language.
                   Em7                                          Am7
             I can see by your coat, my friend, you're from the other side
                          Em7                                  Am7
             There's just one thing I've got to know - can you tell me please
                         Em7  Am7 Em7 Am7
             Who won the War?
             Em7
             Say can I have some of your purple berries?
             Am7                            Em7
             Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now, haven't
                 Am7
             got sick once.
                              Em7          Am7 Em7 Am7
             Probably keep us both alive.

             C    D    A...

             E7                        G D  A
             Wooden ships on the water very free and easy
             E7                             G     D  A
             Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be
             E7                             G   D  A
             Silver people on the shoreline let us be
                           G             Em7     Am7 ....
             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.



             Go, take your 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.


             Em7
             And it's a fair wind,
             Am7                                 Em7      Am7
             Blowing warm out of the South on my shoulder.
                        Em7                 Am7  Em7 Am7 ...
             Guess I'll set a course and row....