Ship of Fools Chords & Lyrics by Grateful Dead
Ship of Fools
guitar chords lyrics
[Transcribed from a book of the Dead]
[Guitar is tuned whole step lower]
[4/4 time, moderate blues]
|----| = 4 beat bar
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[Verse:]
|C---|G-F-|F#o7---|C---|
|---E-|F---Em|Dm---|G---|
|G---|F-C-|Em---|Dm---|
|F---|C---|G-F-|C---|
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[Chorus and Fade:]
|G---|--F-|C---|C---|
|G---|--F-|Am---|Am---|
|Am---|Am----|F#o7---|F#o7---|
|Dm---|G-F-|C---|C---|
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[Verse 1:]
C G F F#o7 C
Went to see the cap__tain___ Strangest__ I could find
E F Em
Laid my__ prop_o_sition down__
Dm G F C
Laid it on the line___ I won't slave for beg-gar's pay__
Em Dm
Like-wise__ gold and jew-els____
F C G F C
but I would slave to learn the way___ to sink your__ ship of fools
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[Chorus:]
C G F C
Ship of fools_______ on a cru__el sea
C G F Am
Ship of fools_______ sail a-way___ from me
Am F#o7
It was lat-er___ that I thought when I first believed you
F#o7 Dm G F C
Now I can-not share your laugh-ter__ ship of fools
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[Verse 2 lyrics, same chords as Verse 1:]
Saw your first ship sink and drown from rocking of the boat;
and all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float.
I won't leave you driftin' down but whoa it makes me wild,
with thirty years upon my head, to have you call me child.
[:Chorus same chords and lyrics:]
Verse 3 lyrics, same chords as Verse 1:
The bottles stand as empty as they were filled before;
time there was and plenty but from that cup no more.
Though I could not caution all I still might warn a few;
don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.
[:Chorus to jam or fade:]
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Thanks to the Dead, in and out of garden Jerry goes...
