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Wooden Ships

Crosby, Stills & Nash
Chords & TabKeyAmadvanced
★4.6(30)

Chords in this song16

Chords

Em9 0 2 0 0 3 2 (intro) 0 2 4 0 3 0 (outro)
Em7 0 10 12 12 0 0
Am9 x 0 10 12 12 0 or x 0 5 5 5 7
F6/A x 0 10 10 10 10 or x 0 0 5 6 5
E5 0 7 9 9 0 0
A5 x 0 7 9 10 0
A x 0 7 6 5 0
D6sus2 x 5 7 7 0 0
Fmaj7 x 0 3 5 5 0
Cmaj7 x 3 5 5 0 0
Bm11/D x 5 7 7 0 0

Intro

       
e|-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------3-3-------------------|
G|-7--6--0--2b-----------------------2/4---0--2p0---0----------|
D|-7--7--0-----0-----2-2-2-----2-2-2-------0------2---2-2--2-2-|
A|-------------------2-2-2-----2-2-2--------------------2--2-2-|
E|-------3-------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-------3------------0--0-0-|
   
e|-5-5--5--5--5-3p0--------------------------------|
B|-2-2--2--2--2-0---0-5p3p0------0-------0-3-5~~~--|
G|-2-2--2--2--2-0---0------4p2p0-0---0-2-----------|
D|-2-2--2--2--2-0---2------------2-2---------------|
A|------------------2------------2-----------------|
E|------------------0------------0-----------------|
    

Verse 1

If you smile at me I will understand 
Because that is something
Everybody everywhere does in the same language    

Verse 2

I can see by your coat my friend you're from the other side
There's just one thing I've got to know
Can you tell me please, who won?     

Verse 3

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  

Bridge

   

Verse 4

Wooden ships on the water, ve-ry 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      

Verse 5

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      

Instrumental

E5 A5 A D6sus2 x3
        

Verse 6

Go take a sister, then, by the hand
Lead her away from this foreign land
Far away, where we might laugh a-gain
We are leaving, you don't need us 

Instrumental

Em9 Cmaj7 x5

Outro

And it's a fair wind 
Blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder 
Guess I'll set a course and go 
 
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| p Pull-off
| b Bend
| / Slide up
| ~ Vibrato
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