Ship of Fools

A song by the Grateful Dead, from From the Mars Hotel.

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Ship of Fools live

• Played 225 times.
• First played Feb 22, 1974 at Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA.
• Last played Jun 25, 1995 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, DC, 8 shows before the band's last show.

Live stats per setlist.fm, as of Oct 27, 2026.

Ship of Fools is one of the songs in the daily Grateful Dead lyric game: one line of a song, three guesses to name it.

More songs from From the Mars Hotel

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