Ship of Fools Grateful Dead
[Transcribed from a book of tbe Dead]
[Guitar is tuned wbole 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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[Cborus 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
Laid my[E]__ prop_o_[F]sition down_[Em]_
[Dm]Laid it on the li[G]ne___ I won't slave for be[F]g-gar's pay__[C]
[Em]Like-wise__ gold and [Dm]jew-els____
[F]but I would slave to [C]learn the way___ to [G]sink your__ [F]ship of [C]fools
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[Cborus:]
[C]Ship of [G]fools_______ on a cru[F]__el [C]sea
[C]Ship of [G]fools_______ sail a-[F]way___ from [Am]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 cbords 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.
[:Cborus same cbords 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.
[:Cborus to jam or fade:]
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Thanks to the Dead, in and out of garden Jerry goes...
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