Chords for John Cale, Nick Cave & Chrissie Hynde - Ship Of Fools

[N] _ [G] _ _ _ Well, I had a problem one day.
_ _ _ Like millions of other teenagers, _ [A] _ my daughter fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio.
[D] _ _ Having seen the Titanic, _ he saw I was [Bm] patient, I waited a few weeks, I thought it would go away, it didn't.
[A] Titanic was on the box every night and [Bb] _ _ the longing started.
[Gm] _
Anyway, I found the perfect [B] antidote down in the South Sea Seaboard in Manhattan.
They were selling T-shirts [Cm] and the T-shirt said, [D] It sank, [B] forget about [Gm] it.
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So, that was [B] a relief because otherwise I'd have to sing this song to a ship of [G] fools. _ _ _ _
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[G] The ship of _ [C] fools [Em] _ [G] is coming [Em] in.
_ _ _ [G] Take me on, I've got to eat.
_ [Em] _ _ _ Same old [C] story, _ [G] same old [Em] thing. _
_ [G] _ _ [Em] Letting [C] out and pulling [G] in.
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Yes, there's a _ [C] caravan, [G] I packed that bag.
[C] _ _ [G] This is how I'm a [C] Christian _ [G] _ rider. _
_ [C] _ [G] A black bucket, [C] grappling hook, a [G] hangman's [C] noose on a burnt out tree.
[G] I guess we must be [C] getting close [G] to toothstone.
_ _ [C] _ So [G] _ _ hold [C] on, it [G] won't be [C] long, _ [G] the _ car's [C] _ [G] out of _ line.
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C]
Hold on, _ _ [G] sister's gone, _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] start to give her [G] sign.
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_ _ [C] _ _ [G] The last time we had each other was when the fires were gone for [C] free.
Now you [G] can count the hot chips [C] by the open [Em] doors. _ _ _ _
And [G] sandwich in between [C] _
[G] with the fishermen who [C] steal.
[G] Wish I could sail from [C] Tennessee to [G] Arizona. _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ Picked up [C] Dracula [G] in Memphis. _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] Just about to [Em] _
break [G] a day here.
[Em] _ _
[G] And hey, celebrate, _ [C] put us [G] all to [C] be safe.
There [G] was something in the air that [C] made us kind of [G] weird. _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] So hold [C] on, [G] it won't be [C] long, _ [G] the _ car's [C] _
out [G] of line.
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_ [G] _ _ _ [C] Hold on, _ _ [G] sister's _ gone, _
[C] _ start to give her [G] sign. _
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_ _ [C] _ _ [G] Everybody _ seemed [Em] quite glad [G] to see us. _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] Shaking hands and [C] smiling [G] at the clock.
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[G] We gave them all the [C] message that [G] the ship of fools [C] would send.
_ To [G] make sure [C] they all got home for [G] Christmas. _
_ [C] _ _ [Em] By the [G] time we got to [C] Swansea, it was [G] getting dark.
[C] _ _
_ _ [G] Mumbles, jumbles, _ [C] music and a [G] prize.
_ [C] _ _ [G] The time turned, we're sitting [C] on the floor as [G] if we didn't know what to do.
_ [Em] _ But [G] Ghana stood its [C] ground and asked for [G] more.
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So _ [G] _ _ [C] hold on, it [G] won't be [C] long, _ [G] the _ car's [C] out of [G] line.
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_ [C] Hold _ on, _ _ [G] sister's gone, _ _ [C] _ start to give her sign.
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