Wooden Ships

Tom : G
​( 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 )