Expert: Skeeter - 4/25/2008

Question
hy, i have an old 45: no name or label or anything on it.
one side is too damaged to play and the other plays the song Ship of Fools.  it wasn't any version id ever heard and it sounded a lot like bob seger.  so i looked it up hopeing to find lyrics and guitar chords and all i could find were a few lyrics.  any idea where i could find the chords to it?  thankyou for your time, corn likker carson esq.

Answer
   Could it be Robert Plant singing?  If I remember right he sang a version of it in a band, I am thinking it was called the Honeydrippers.  It might even be Robert Plant AND Jimmy Page in that band.  
 I also think I use to play this song in a band.   I am trying to remember how it goes,   I think if I am not mistaken it is the simple dowap chords.   
 If this isn't correct then let me know and I will see if I have a copy of it and figure it out for you ( I am a performing musician so working out songs is not a big deal to me).
  I believe the chords are likely either C, Am  F  and G  or G, Em ,  C ,  and D.   It could also contain a Em ( if in C)  or a Bm (if in G).
  I think the bridge goes either D,  C,  D,  C, then to another chord,  or G,F,G,F then to another chord depending on what key it is in.
 But it is , I am certain, either played in the key of C major or G major.   C major being the C-Am-F, G (and maybe Em)   and G Major being G, Em, D and D (and maybe Bm).
 
  The best way to do is find a CD copy of the song at a library and tune your guitar to a tuner.   Trying to copy stuff from a 45 is tough because they are seldom exactly on key,  but CDs are nearly always exactly on tune A=440.  
 I am betting if you get a CD copy of it and  try the two chord progressions I suggested that you will find it is one of them.

  And, if you like dowap, virtually all dowap songs are these two progressions.  
  Try doing C-Am-F- G  slow and you have a fast dowap song.  Then try doing it fast, just striking each chord once and you have a fast dowap song.