Indigo Girls - Ghost

      

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 GHOST (Emily Saliers)

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 (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.
 
 
 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-------|--------------------------------|
 

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 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-------|--------------------------------|
 

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 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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