Written by David Crosby/Paul Kantner/Stephen Stills
(Em Bm Am) 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 (Em G D) C (Em G D) 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 C Em Very free and easy (Em C) 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 D C D Lead her far from this barren land (Em G D) 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 C We are leaving Em You don't need us (C Em) (Em G D) Go and take a sister by her hand Lead her far from this foreign land Somewhere where we might laugh again C We are leaving Em You don't need us (C Em) D (Em G D) 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 C Very free Em And gone (Em G D) (Em D)