Ghost   Indigo Girls

GHOST (Emily Saliers)
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[No capo; each chord is half a measure.]


D/F[intro]

          D/FThere's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer
           D/FThe last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war
        D/FAnd I start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen
         D/FYou come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams

    D(9)/FThe Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota
       D(9)/FAt a place that you could walk across with five steps down
      D(9)/FAnd I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart
             D(9)/FBut at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown

            D          DAnd there's not enough room in this world for my pain
D                  D/CSignals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain
   D            DOf all my demon spirits I need you the most
C(9)      G6/B            D(9)/F  I'm in love with your ghost
       C(9)    G6/B        D(9)/F  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   In love with your ghost
 
         C(9)     G6/B        D(9)/FOo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo
         C(9)     G6/B        D(9)/FOo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo

          Em7            Em7            A7sus     A7
Unknowing captor, you'll never know how much you
           D      D/CPierced my spirit, but I can't touch you
             Bm    Bm/A        GCan 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)/FIn love with your ghost
   C(9)  G6/B       D(9)/FIn love with your ghost  (shadowing my dreams)
   C(9)  G6/B       D(9)/FIn love with your ghost  (ooooooooh)
   C(9)  G6/B       D(9)/FIn love with your ghost  (ooooooooh)
 
C(9)   G/B   D/F[instrumental: repeat and fade]

CHORDS (just the non-standard ones):
D/FD(9)/FDF
Notes on some chords:
  If you don't want to play Dit doesn't sound much different.  Same deal with GE9 (020102) for the same basic sound.  Then you can just play G, not Gmaj13.
Also, you can play F  In the chorus, try playing the second half of D and Dthe 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/FE --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
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)/Flittle trickier (HINT: the thumb handles all the notes on the E, A, and
D strings):

  D(9)/FE ------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/FE --------------------------------|3-----2-----3-------------------|
B ----------3-----1-----0---------|----------------3---------------|
G ------0---------0-----0---------|--------------------------------|
D 2/4-------------2-----0---------|--------------------------------|
A --------------------------------|3---------------2---------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .    ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .



- Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu