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Wooden ships

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mardi 20 juin 2006 [n° 1307]

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH : the ultimate “hippy” band

“The trio came together at John Sebastian’s house late in 1968. Crosby had been recording a solo album, when he was joined by Stills fresh from his work on the “Super Session” album with Al Kooper. Together they made a few rough demos, collaborated on the song “Wooden Ships” with Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane1

Wooden ships 2

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 a 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 3

Crosby, Stills and Nash: Wooden Ships

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source : ample sanity
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WOODSTOCK 1969


“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realization of Utopias.” 4

Oscar Wilde

Jimi’s performance of Voodoo Child at the Woodstock festival, 1969

The Psychedelic 60′s

“Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.”

William S. Burroughs


  1. Jefferson Airplane
    CROSBY, STILLS & NASH Peter Dogett
    Journal: Record Collector
    Date: January 1983 [back]
  2. David Crosby Songbook [back]
  3. At Woodstock, (that’s the original, or REAL Woodstock,) I believe it was Stephen Stills who introduced the song by saying that it was about “after the Apocalypse, whatever that may be, and the survivors are escaping in the Wooden Ships.” If one interprets songs in reference to the times in which they are written, it’s pretty safe to assume that the song deals with the dangers of escalation and possible nuclear disaster vis-a-vis the Viet Nam War. — written by The Baron, Film threat black talk [back]
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