Grateful Dead - Ship of Fools (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV - 5/12/74) Lyrics

Lyrics Ship of Fools (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV - 5/12/74) - Grateful Dead



Went to see the captain
Strangest I could find
Laid my proposition down
I laid it on the line
I won't slave for beggar's pay
Likewise gold and jewels
But I would slave to learn the way
To sink your ship of fools
Ship of fools
On a cruel sea
Ship of fools
Sail away from me
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools
Saw you first ship sink and drown
From rockin' of the boat
And all that could not sink or swim
Was just left there to float
I won't leave you drifting down
But, whoa, it makes me wild
With thirty years upon my head
To have you call me child
Ship of fools
On a cruel sea
Ship of fools
Sail away from me
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools
The bottles stand as empty
As they were filled before
And time that was in plenty
But from that cup no more
Though I would not caution all
I still might warn a few
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag
Atop no ship of fools
Ship of fools
On a cruel sea
Ship of fools
Sail away from me
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools



Writer(s): Garcia Jerome J, Hunter Robert C


Grateful Dead - 30 Days Of Dead 2014
Album 30 Days Of Dead 2014
date of release
01-01-2014

1 Scarlet Begonias/Touch of Gray/Fire On the Mountain (Live at Starlight Theater, Kansas, MO - 7/3/84)
2 China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA - 10/20/74)
3 Doin' That Rag (Live at the Ark, Boston, MA - 4/22/69)
4 Estimated Prophet/ Terrapin Station (Live at Hershey Stadium, Hershey PA - 6/28/85)
5 Bird Song (Live at Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY - 2/24/71)
6 Dupree's Diamond Blues (Live at Alfond Arena, U of Maine, Orono, ME - 4/19/83)
7 Candyman (Live at Alfred College, Alfred, NY - 5/1/70)
8 Row Jimmy (Live at Milwaukee Auditorium, Milwaukee, WI - 2/4/78)
9 Cream Puff War (Live at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA - 7/3/66)
10 Lazy Lighting/Supplication (Live at Mershhon Auditorium, Columbus, OH 9/30/76)
11 Help On the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower (Live at Marin County Veterans Auditorium, CA - 4/1/84)
12 Cumberland Blues (Live at Ohio Theatre, Columbus OH - 10/31/71)
13 The Music Never Stopped (Live at Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD - 5/26/77)
14 Jack Straw (Live at Aladdin Theater, Las Vegas, NV - 3/26/83)
15 Box of Rain (Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY - 3/16/73)
16 EAC Jam (Live at Mill Valley - 4/29/75)
17 Comes a Time (Live at Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO - 12/10/1971)
18 Victim Or the Crime/Foolish Heart (Live at Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, FL - 10/16/88)
19 Looks Like Rain (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA - 6/12/76)
20 To Lay Me Down (Live at Veterans' Memorial Coliseum - New Haven, CT - 5/11/81)
21 That's It For the Other One (Live at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA - 11/7/69)
22 Ship of Fools (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV - 5/12/74)
23 It Must Have Been the Roses (Live at Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA - 5/18/77)
24 Uncle John's Band (Live at Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA - 3/1/70)
25 My Brother Esau (Live at Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI - 3/31/86)
26 Passenger (Live at Golden Hall, Community Concourse, San Diego, CA - 11/24/79)
27 Mississippi Half Step (Live at Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA - 3/28/73)
28 Lost Sailor/Saint of Circumstance (Live at Veterans' Memorial Coliseum - New Haven, CT - 9/23/82)
29 Playing In the Band (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA - 9/16/72)
30 Eyes of the World (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA - 10/16/74)




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