Indigo Girls - Ghost

      
 
 GHOST -- Indigo Girls
 
 This version is complete with authentic chords & list of fingerings, verse picking
 patterns, plus lead-in riffs to the chorus and last verse. Enjoy!
 
 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 --------------------------------|----------------------------|