Good morning Scribblers! This weeks SONG FROM THE WOOD is Wooden Ships by Crosby, Stills, and Nash It was written in 1968 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a boat named Mayan owned by David Crosby, who composed the music, while Paul Kantner (of Jefferson Airplane) and Stephen Stills wrote most of the lyrics. The song describes the consequences of an apocalyptic nuclear war. In one interpretation, the words of the song depict the horrors confronting the survivors of a nuclear holocaust in which the two sides have annihilated each other. A man from one side stumbles upon a man from the other side and asks him, Can you tell me, please, who won? Since the question has no real meaning in the circumstances (or even at all), it is left unanswered. To stay alive, they share purple berries that have presumably not been poisoned by radiation. The lyrics beg silver people on the shoreline (described by David Crosby as guys in radiation suits) to let us be. As wooden ships are carrying the survivors away, radiation poisoning kills those who have not made it aboard. https://youtube/watch?v=O69L2mO9y-4
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:52:11 +0000
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