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This is such a cool song with quite a bit of history behind it.
This song was written during the height of the cold war by David Crosby and Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane. Both bands released the song the same year and although the version by CSN&Y is the most commonly heard, both are excellent and both are considered original versions.
The song is about a man who finds himself left alive after a nuclear war surviving on what nature can supply him with and living with the memories of those that did'nt survive. He meets a soldier from the other from the other side of the conflict and can only ask "who won?"
I spent a few minutes in tears when I realized what this was about and then the next two days learning it. I have altered the chords slightly and used some of the lyrics from the Jefferson Airplane version. I think I landed my self somewhere between the two versions and added my own flavor to it. I recommend using a good pair of headphones since I have used a lot of polyphonic leads and there is a lot of hard panning that I think is poetically important to this song.
Instrumentation:
Vocals: Myself, some double tracking used both manual and artificial some reverb but no other effects.
Guitars: The only guitar you are hearing is five tracks or my Rainsong COWS-1100n1 some reverb added.
LYRICS:
If you smile at me, I will understand
'Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
in the same language.
I can see by your coat, my friend,
you're from the other side,
There's just one thing I got to know,
Can you tell me please, who won?
Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now,
haven't got sick once.
Probably keep us both alive.
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 your 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.
And it's a fair wind, blowin' warm,
Out of the south over my shoulder,
Guess I'll set a course and go...
CSN&Y version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2YspEzkdVU
Jefferson Airplane version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURyLc
This song was written during the height of the cold war by David Crosby and Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane. Both bands released the song the same year and although the version by CSN&Y is the most commonly heard, both are excellent and both are considered original versions.
The song is about a man who finds himself left alive after a nuclear war surviving on what nature can supply him with and living with the memories of those that did'nt survive. He meets a soldier from the other from the other side of the conflict and can only ask "who won?"
I spent a few minutes in tears when I realized what this was about and then the next two days learning it. I have altered the chords slightly and used some of the lyrics from the Jefferson Airplane version. I think I landed my self somewhere between the two versions and added my own flavor to it. I recommend using a good pair of headphones since I have used a lot of polyphonic leads and there is a lot of hard panning that I think is poetically important to this song.
Instrumentation:
Vocals: Myself, some double tracking used both manual and artificial some reverb but no other effects.
Guitars: The only guitar you are hearing is five tracks or my Rainsong COWS-1100n1 some reverb added.
LYRICS:
If you smile at me, I will understand
'Cause that is something everybody everywhere does
in the same language.
I can see by your coat, my friend,
you're from the other side,
There's just one thing I got to know,
Can you tell me please, who won?
Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now,
haven't got sick once.
Probably keep us both alive.
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 your 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.
And it's a fair wind, blowin' warm,
Out of the south over my shoulder,
Guess I'll set a course and go...
CSN&Y version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2YspEzkdVU
Jefferson Airplane version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURyLc
Category Music / 60s
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 96 x 120px
File Size 6.28 MB
I love stereophonics! I try to use them whenever possible. One of my favorite things to do lately is to record two completely different lead instrument tracks and have them both play at the same time panned right and left. It is something that certainly doesn't get messed with enough though. I think the reason has something to do with making the sangs listenable if you had only one ear bud in your ear. *groan* My boy friends points this out frequently as he likes to do exactly that. I'm sure there are other reasons, but I kind of refuse to believe that there are any validly artistic ones. Stereo phonics adds a whole other dimension to music and not using it is like an artist saying hes going to stop using linear perspective in his drawing. Its all about adding depth!
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