Escrita
por David Crosby, Paul Kantner e Stephen Stills, foi gravada em 20 de
fevereiro de 1969 e lançada no mesmo ano no disco Crosby, Stills and
Nash. Kantner foi um dos fundadores do Jefferson Airplane. A música
foi composta em Fort Lauderdale, na Flórida, num barco chamado
Mayan, de propriedade de Crosby, que compôs a música e Kantner e
Stills escreveram a letra. Foi lançada também no mesmo ano pelo
Jefferson Airplane.
Foi
escrita na era da guera do Vietnã e descreve os horrores de um
possivel holocauto nuclear onde quase todo mundo morre. Os barcos são
de madeira porque se forem de metal se tornam radioativos.
David
Crosby cantou e tocou guitarra rítmica, Stephen Stills cantou, tocou
guitarra solo, baixo e teclados, Graham Nash fez backing vocals e
Dallas Taylor tocou bateria.
A
letra:
[Intro. (Electric
Guitar)]
[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
[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]
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 (Electric Guitar)]
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
[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]
And it's a fair wind
Blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder
Guess I'll set a course and go
[Ending (Electric Guitar and Organ)]
[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
[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]
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 (Electric Guitar)]
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
[Instrumental (Electric Guitar)]
And it's a fair wind
Blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder
Guess I'll set a course and go
[Ending (Electric Guitar and Organ)]
A versão de Crosby,
Stills and Nash:
A versão do
Jefferson Airplane:
A versão de
Christine Harwood:
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