Crosby, stills & nash...song meaning

[97tbird]

I'v been listening to a lot of old Crosby/Stills/Nash lately, and "wooden ships" is one of my favorites...
Does anybody understand what in the world this song is about, by any chance...the lyrics are so strange...see below:

by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Paul Kantner

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.

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...

 

[nyr197]

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=90836

 

[1sttruck]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_Ships

 

[Pablo]

I always thought of it as a post nuclear war acid trip song. I guess the coat could refer to any war uniform - not just the civil war. I had forgotten Kanter was involved. Read the lyrics of Airplane songs and you'll know what I mean.

 

[97tbird]

Thanks for the links, guys.. ican enjoy it even more now, going to et some canabis sativa now...

 

[wavinwayne]

Wow that's totally far out Man!

 

[obbop]

Perhaps y'all can help with this one:

"Cramps Surfin' Bird lyrics"

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[simple_gifts]

obbob, surf on over to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_fever

 

[Pablo]

 

[NJC]

Quote:

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Perhaps y'all can help with this one:

"Cramps Surfin' Bird lyrics"

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I can only hope you didn't type all of those lyrics!

Originally done by The Trashmen