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[Stills:] If you smile at me I will understand
'Cause that is something
Everybody everywhere does in the same language
[Crosby:] 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?
[Stills:] Say can I have some of your purple berries?
[Crosby:] Yes, I've been eating them
For six or seven weeks now haven't got sick once
[Stills:] 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 cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving, you don't need us

Aaaah ...
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

And it's a fair wind
Blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder
Guess I'll set a course and go

gillespp May 03, 2013 - 17:10	ceviche wrote: What a bunch of soft-headed hippie claptrap. "Silver people on the shoreline let us be..." Still, I love it, gave it an 8. Not hippie claptrap. Listen close to the lyrics; the song is about a postnuclear apocalypse. "Silver people on the shoreline" have to be people in radiation suits checking out the radioactive areas. [ Reply ]
That_SOB Jan 29, 2013 - 19:06	I was 2 years out of high-school, and at the U of Wash. in "69" My lady and I went to sleep 100 nights listening to this sweet sweet music. Every time I hear this song, the memories come flooding back, and they are as fine as the song. 10 ! [ Reply ]
On_The_Beach Oct 27, 2012 - 17:49	Stranglersfan wrote: I agree, its amazing how times have changed. There was a remarkably small amount of bad music made in those days. Actually there was TONS of bad music back then. Bobby Goldsboro, anyone? Thankfully most of it has been forgotten and the good stuff (like this) lives on. [ Reply ]
Stranglersfan Oct 27, 2012 - 17:18	martinc wrote: Yep but 1969 was even better. Check date here. Led Zep I and II ...... I agree, its amazing how times have changed. There was a remarkably small amount of bad music made in those days. [ Reply ]
martinc Aug 14, 2012 - 08:52	godspeed wrote: The year of 1970 produced some of the greatest music ever heard! Google that year and you'll be amazed by the number of timeless classics. Yep but 1969 was even better. Check date here. Led Zep I and II ...... [ Reply ]
max_p Jul 25, 2012 - 07:34	mcYammer wrote: Buttery guitar solos. So many transfiguring autumn drives to this in HS, o thanks CSN yes in contrast to CSN+Y [ Reply ]
eswiley2 Jul 25, 2012 - 07:33	I listened to this album for a long time on just a crappy old record player — no stereo. I didn't hear the "conversation" for years. First time I did was a big "WOW" moment for me! Not unlike when the Wizard of Oz goes from black and white to color! [ Reply ]
funkyalfonso Jul 22, 2012 - 02:21	Hannio wrote: Sez you. It's every bit as good, sez I. Sez me 2. [ Reply ]
ScottishWillie May 23, 2012 - 01:08	I can’t hear this song without visualizing the footage from the Woodstock film. [ Reply ]
fitzworld Mar 20, 2012 - 14:58	Does it get any better than this? [ Reply ]
drfeeleygood Mar 20, 2012 - 14:54	According to my parents....First song i ever heard. No wonder I'm such an audiophile. [ Reply ]
mcYammer Dec 16, 2011 - 10:04	Buttery guitar solos. So many transfiguring autumn drives to this in HS, o thanks CSN [ Reply ]
godspeed Nov 14, 2011 - 17:33	The year of 1970 produced some of the greatest music ever heard! Google that year and you'll be amazed by the number of timeless classics. [ Reply ]
ceviche Sep 12, 2011 - 15:34	What a bunch of soft-headed hippie claptrap. "Silver people on the shoreline let us be..." Still, I love it, gave it an 8. [ Reply ]
bluecshells Sep 12, 2011 - 15:25	Great great great! [ Reply ]
d-don Sep 12, 2011 - 15:23	Say, can I have some of your purple berries? [ Reply ]
eswiley2 Jun 10, 2011 - 05:54	The stereo system I first played this on didn't have good sound separation. It was years before I heard the "dialog" at the beginning... [ Reply ]
sunward May 09, 2011 - 15:44	dcjohnson77 wrote: Thanks, Lemmoth, thought I lost my memory trying to link this to CSNY. Still a great tune though........ The credits are right, but the album photo is not. Wooden Ships was from CSN, before Neil joined Aug 17, (one day before they played at Woodstock). The cover shown is for Deja Vu - with Neil, but no Wooden Ships. [ Reply ]
dcjohnson77 May 09, 2011 - 15:23	lemmoth wrote: Cmon Bill — Please update the album credits and photo. No Neil on this great great record. Thanks, Lemmoth, thought I lost my memory trying to link this to CSNY. Still a great tune though........ [ Reply ]
bluecshells May 09, 2011 - 15:19	Truly golden. Too bad I'm in a cube because I want to SING to this one! [ Reply ]