"Wooden Ships" is a rock song written and composed by David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane fame in the late 1960s. The song was written and composed on Crosby's boat in Florida. Crosby composed the music, and Stills and Kantner wrote most of the lyrics..
Kantner could not be credited as one of the joint authors-composers on the original release of Crosby, Stills & Nash due to legal issues, but he is thus credited on...
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"Wooden Ships" is a rock song written and composed by David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane fame in the late 1960s. The song was written and composed on Crosby's boat in Florida. Crosby composed the music, and Stills and Kantner wrote most of the lyrics..
Kantner could not be credited as one of the joint authors-composers on the original release of Crosby, Stills & Nash due to legal issues, but he is thus credited on the 2006 re-release. The song was also released by Jefferson Airplane the same year on the album Volunteers. Both versions are considered to be original versions of the song, although they differ slightly in wording and melody.
Crosby recorded a solo demo in March 1968, with the melody but no lyrics at this stage. Stills recorded his own demo the following month with most of the lyrics now in place.
"Wooden Ships" was written at the height of the Vietnam War, a time of great tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, nuclear...
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