Chords for Wooden Ships - CSNY (Live at Woodstock 69)

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84.4 bpm
Chords used:

Em

E

Am

C

B

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Wooden Ships - CSNY (Live at Woodstock 69) chords
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What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?
A kind of a science fiction story, if you'll bear with us.
[B] It's about these people who [E] are escaping the Holocaust, whatever it may be,
and leaving it behind and escaping in the wooden ships.
If
[B]
[G]
[B] [Em]
[G] [Em]
[A] [G] [Em]
[E] [Am] [Em]
[Am] [Em] you smile at me, [Am] I will understand
Is that [Em] something everybody everywhere [Am] is in the same
[Em] Language
[Am] [Em]
[Am] [Em] I can see by your coat, my friend, [Am] from the other side
[Em] There's just one thing I got to know
[Am] Can you tell me [Em] please, who won the war?
[Am]
[Am] [F] [Em] Say, can I have some of your purple [Am] berries?
Yes, I've been eating them [Em] for six or seven weeks now
[Am] Haven't got a sick one, but probably a gift [Em] for school
[Am] [B] [G]
[E] Wooden ships on the [A] water, very [D]
free and [E] easy
You know the way it's supposed [D] to be
[Em] Let's live on this [E] shoreline, let [D] us be [C] very free
[E]
[Am] [Em]
[Am] [E]
[C] [B]
[E] Horror, it's just as we watch [D] you die
[E] All we can do is echo [A] the language
Tell [E] us how you must leave and die
[C] While leaving, you don't need a
[Am] [Em]
[C] [Em]
[C] [B] [E]
[B] [Em] [E]
[B]
[G] [C]
[Am] [Em] [C]
[Am] [B] [C]
[E] [C]
[B] [Am] [E] Take your sister, [A] then father, [D] and [E] me away
From this foreign land, far away
While [D] leaving, [C]
you [Em] don't need a
[C]
[E] [C]
[E] [C]
[Em] [C]
[Em] [E] [D] [E]
[Em] [C]
[Em] [C]
[Em] [Am] [Em]
[Am] [E]
[Am] [E]
[B] [Em] [E]
[Am] It's a fair wind, blowing warm [C] out of the south on my shoulder
[Em] Guess I'll set a course and go
[C]
Key:  
Em
121
E
2311
Am
2311
C
3211
B
12341112
Em
121
E
2311
Am
2311
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What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?
_ A kind of a science fiction story, _ if you'll bear with us.
[B] _ _ It's about these people who [E] are escaping the _ _ _ _ Holocaust, whatever it may be,
_ and leaving it behind and escaping in the wooden ships.
If _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] you smile at me, [Am] I will understand
Is that [Em] something everybody everywhere [Am] is in the same
_ _ [Em] Language _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] I can see by your coat, my friend, [Am] from the other side
[Em] There's just one thing I got to know
[Am] _ Can you tell me [Em] please, who won the war?
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [F] _ [Em] Say, can I have some of your purple [Am] berries?
Yes, I've been eating them [Em] for six or seven weeks now
[Am] Haven't got a sick one, but probably a gift [Em] for school _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _
_ [E] Wooden ships on the [A] water, very [D]
free and [E] easy
You know the way it's supposed [D] to be
[Em] Let's live on this [E] shoreline, let [D] us be [C] very free
[E] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [E] Horror, it's just as we watch [D] you die
[E] All we can do is echo [A] the language
Tell _ [E] us how you must leave and die
[C] While leaving, you don't need a _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Am] _ [B] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ Take your sister, [A] then father, [D] and [E] me away
From this foreign land, far away
While _ [D] leaving, _ [C] _ _
you [Em] don't need a
_ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _
_ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Am] It's a fair wind, _ _ _ _ blowing warm [C] out of the south on my shoulder
[Em] Guess I'll set a course and go
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _

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