here are Crosby's exact comments b-4 the song at Woodstock: "we're gonna do...a kind of
a...science fiction story, if you'll bear with us... it's about these people who are escaping the, uh, the holocaust, or whatever it may be....and, leaving it behind....and escaping in the Wooden Ships"
as far as the time frame for this adventure, it could be just about anytime/anywhere -
it could be the Vikings heading out to new lands - it could be post-apocalyptic in the distant
future - it could be Japan after the bombings - Crosby/Stills/Kantner sort of instilled a mode that is universal
here are Crosby's exact comments b-4 the song at Woodstock: "we're gonna do...a kind of a...science fiction story, if you'll bear with us... it's about these people who are escaping the, uh, the holocaust, or whatever it may be....and, leaving it behind....and escaping in the Wooden Ships" as far as the time frame for this adventure, it could be just about anytime/anywhere - it could be the Vikings heading out to new lands - it could be post-apocalyptic in the distant future - it could be Japan after the bombings - Crosby/Stills/Kantner sort of instilled a mode that is universal