great maritime songs - 9. 'Wooden Ships' by Jefferson Airplane

This song was written in the late 1960s by Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and David Crosby and Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young).  Both groups recorded versions - the CNS&Y version is probably the better known so here is the other.

Strictly it has a Science Fiction theme, but the chorus lines
"Wooden ships on the water, very free and easy/Sail away where the mornin sun goes high/
Sail away where the wind blows sweet and young birds fly" must qualify it as a maritime song!