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Ghost by Indigo Girls
Ghost
[No capo; each chord is half a measure.]
D/F# G C(9) G/B (repeating, fading in)
[intro]
D/F# G C(9) G/B
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer
D/F# G C(9) G/B
The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war
D/F# G C(9) G/B
And I start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen
D/F# G C(9) G6/B C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
You come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams
D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B
The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota
D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B
At a place that you could walk across with five steps down
D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B
And I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart
D(9)/F# G6 C(9) C(9)
But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown
D D#dim Em7 A7sus - A7
And there's not enough room in this world for my pain
D D/C# Bm7 Bm7
Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain
D D#dim Em7 A7sus - A7
Of all my demon spirits I need you the most
C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
I'm in love with your ghost
C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
I'm in love with your ghost
Dark and dangerous like a secret that gets whispered in a hush
When I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush
When you kiss me like a lover, then you sting me like a viper
I go follow to the river, play your memory like the piper
And I feel it like a sickness, how this love is killing me
But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly
And dance the edge of sanity, I've never been this close
C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
In love with your ghost
C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo
C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo
Em7 Em7 A7sus A7
Unknowing captor, you'll never know how much you
D D/C# F#7sus4 F#7
Pierced my spirit, but I can't touch you
Bm Bm/A E7/G# G
Can you hear it, a cry to be free
B7 B7 Em E Am C D D/C G/B D
I'm forever under lock and key as you pass through me
Now I see your face before me, I would launch a thousand ships
To bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips
As I burn up in your presence, and I know now how it feels
To be weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels
And my bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep
It poisons me, I can't swim free, the river is too deep
Though I'm baptized by your touch, I am no worse at most
C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
In love with your ghost
C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
In love with your ghost (shadowing my dreams)
C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)
C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)
C(9) G/B D/F# G
[instrumental: repeat and fade]
Notes on some chords:
* If you don't want to play D#dim (xx1212), play B7/D# (xx1202) instead;
it doesn't sound much different.
* I think the Girls play F#11 (244300) where I've written F#7sus4 & F#7
(x44420 & x44320), and some god-awful G#m and Gmaj7 chords where I wrote
E7 & G. Do whatever you think works best for you.
* In the chorus, try playing the second half of D and D#dim (or B7/D#) with
the third fret on the high E string. It matches the vocals that way.
TAB:
The picking pattern for the intro, first verse, and outro goes like this
(note the continuous D note on the third fret of the B string):
D/F# G C(9) G/B
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B ------3-------3-------3-------3-|------3-------3-------3-------3-|
G --2-------2-------0-------0-----|--0-------0-------0-------0-----|
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
For the rest of the song, where it goes D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B, it's a
little trickier (HINT: the thumb handles all the notes on the E, A, and
D strings):
D(9)/F# G6 C(9) G6/B
E ------0---------------0---------|------0---------------0---------|
B ----------3---------------3-----|----------3---------------3-----|
G --2-----------2---0-----------0-|--0-----------0---0-----------0-|
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
And then there's this little fill in the intro and outro:
D/F# G C(9) G/B
E --------------------------------|3-----2-----3-------------------|
B ----------3-----1-----0---------|----------------3---------------|
G ------0-------------------------|--------------------------------|
D 2/4-------------2-----0---------|--------------------------------|
A --------------------------------|3---------------2---------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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version 2
Intro/verse: D9/F#, G, C9, G/B (see figures at bottom of page)
There's a letter on the desktop, that I dug out of a drawer
The last truce we ever came to, from our adolescent war
And I start to feel the fever, from the warm air through the screen
You come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams (extra C9 G/B D9/F# G)
Well, the Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota
At a place that you could walk across with five steps down
And I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart
D9/F# G C9
But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown
(strum) D Ebdim Em-Em7 A7sus4-A7
And there's not enough room in this world for my pain
D D/C# Bm7
Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain
D Ebdim Em-Em7 A7sus4-A7
Of all my demon spirits I need you the most
I'm in love with your ghost x2 C9 G/B D9/F# G
Dark and dangerous like a secret, that gets whispered in a hush
When I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush
When you kiss me like a lover, then you sting me like a viper
I go follow to the river, play your memory like the piper
And I feel it like a sickness, how this love is killing me
But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly
And dance the edge of sanity, I've never been this close
In love with your ghost
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo x2 C9, G/B, D9/F#, G
(strum) Em-Em7 A7sus4 A7
Unknowing captor, you'll never know how much you
D D/C# F#11
Pierced my spirit, but I can't touch you
Bm Bm/A Bm/Ab Bm/A*
Can you hear it, a cry to be free
B7 Em E Am C D D/C G/B D
I'm forever under lock and key as you pass through me (bridge riff)
Now I see your face before me, I would launch a thousand ships
To bring your heart back to my island, as the sand beneath me slips
As I burn up in your presence, and I know now how it feels
To be weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels
And my bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep
It poisons me, I can't swim free, the river is too deep
Though I'm baptized by your touch, I am no worse at most
C (9 fr.) G6/B D(9)/F# G6
In love with your ghost
In love with your ghost x3 (shadowing my dreams; ooooooooh x2)
End with outro fill & riff. Strum D/F# to finish (200232).
Chords (in order of appearance):
D9/F# 200230
G 3x0030
C9 x32030
G/B x20030
D xx0232
Ebdim xx1212
Em 022000
Em7 022030 (strum backwards and hold two beats in Bridge)
A7sus4 x02030
A7 x02020
D/C# x4x232
Bm7 x24232
F#11 244300
Bm x24432
Bm/A x04432
Bm/Ab 4x4430
Bm/A* x04430
B7 x24242
E 022100
Am x02210
C x32010
Intro/outro fill (skip initial hammer-on first time through):
e -------------------------------------|3-----2-----3--------------|
B ---------------3-----1-----0---------|----------------3----------|
G -----------0---------0-----0---------|---------------------------|
D -(0h)2/4-------------2-----0---------|---------------------------|
A -------------------------------------|3---------------2----------|
E -------------------------------------|---------------------------|
Intro/1st verse/outro riff:
D9/F# G C9 G/B
e --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B ------3-------3-------3-------3-|------3-------3-------3-------3-|
G --2-------2-------0-------0-----|--0-------0-------0-------0-----|
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|
Main riff (technically starts at C9 for instrumental after 1st verse):
D9/F# G C9 G/B
e ------0---------------0---------|------0---------------0---------|
B ----------3---------------3-----|----------3---------------3-----|
G --2-----------2---0-----------0-|--0-----------0---0-----------0-|
D ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|
C9 riff before each chorus: (and on to strum chorus chords)
e ------3-------3-------3-------3-|-2...----------------------|
B ----------0-------0-------0-----|-3...----------------------|
G --0-----------------------------|-2...----------------------|
D ----2-------2-------2-------2---|-0...----------------------|
A 3-------3-------3-------3-------|---------------------------|
E --------------------------------|---------------------------|
Bridge outro riff:
D D/C G/B D
e ------2---------------0---------|------0----------2----------|
B --3-------3---3-----------3---3-|----------3---3--3----------|
G ----2-------2-----2-------------|--0---------0----2----------|
D 0-------0-----------0-------0---|----0------------0----------|
A ----------------3-------3-------|2-------2-------------------|
E --------------------------------|----------------------------|
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