Considering Wooden Ships here is essentially the finished song from "Wooden ships, on the water..." on,
this doesn't seem to jive:
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"What happened," says David, "was that Paul Kantner came down to my boat in Florida, he and Stephen came down together, and we sat around and wrote it. I had already written all the music. Paul wrote two verses and Stephen wrote one, and I wrote the things at both ends.
This too:
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We were sitting around in the main cabin of the boat, and we started fooling around, as we would naturally do, and we started playing that set of changes and we wrote that song together. Stephen came up with a couple of ways to arrange it, musically, and he wrote the "Horror grips us as we watch you die" verse. Paul came up with the original hook line, "Wooden ships on the water."
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Then David had had this piece of music for about a year or two that he hadn't written lyrics to. He had passed it around and nobody did anything about it. We had gone sailing with him–me and Grace. David would take us on his boat here and there. Grace and I weren't together yet at that point. I knew how fond David was of the ocean. It was his song, really, to start with. So I just put "Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy," which charmed David to no end. Most of that is my lyric and most of it's David's music. Stephen Stills wrote one verse, the nasty verse about watching you die, which is sort of fitting for Stephen.
Unless Stills made the demo after all of that happened? But if that were the case, why make a demo at all, and why omit the opening dialogue? Anyone?
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