Wooden Ships

(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                                
Lead her far from this barren land
C D


(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)