Ghost tab by Indigo Girls

Tabs

Difficulty: Intermediate


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


D/F#D/F# G+G C(9) G/BG/B (repeating, fading in)
[intro]

     D/F#D/F#     G+G       C(9)      G/BG/B
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer
      D/F#D/F#     G+G        C(9)    G/BG/B
The last truce we ever came to from our adolescent war
    D/F#D/F#       G+G       C(9)          G/BG/B
And I start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen
     D/F#D/F#      G+G   C(9)     G6/B  C(9) G6/B D(9)/F# G6G6
You come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams

  D(9)/F#    G6G6       C(9)     G6/B
The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota
    D(9)/F#       G6G6        C(9)      G6/B
At a place that you could walk across with five steps down
   D(9)/F#          G6G6      C(9)      G6/B
And I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart
       D(9)/F#        G6G6       C(9)     C(9)
But at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown

      D MajorD     D#dimD#dim    E minor 7Em7     A7sus - A7A7
And there's not enough room in this world for my pain
D MajorD         D/C#        Bm7Bm7          Bm7Bm7
Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain
  D MajorD      D#dimD#dim   E minor 7Em7      A7sus - A7A7
Of all my demon spirits I need you the most
C(9)   G6/B      D(9)/F# G6G6
 I'm in love with your ghost
    C(9)  G6/B    D(9)/F# G6G6
 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#  G6G6
  In love with your ghost

     C(9)   G6/B    D(9)/F# G6G6
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo
     C(9)   G6/B    D(9)/F# G6G6
Oo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo

     E minor 7Em7      E minor 7Em7      A7sus   A7A7
Unknowing captor, you'll never know how much you
      D MajorD   D/C#     F#sus4F#7sus4  F#7F#7
Pierced my spirit, but I can't touch you
       B minorBm  Bm/ABm/A    E7/G#  G+G
Can you hear it, a cry to be free
B7B7    B7B7     E minorEm     E MajorE  A minorAm  C majorC   D MajorD   D/C  G/BG/B  D MajorD
 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#  G6G6
In love with your ghost
  C(9) G6/B    D(9)/F#       G6G6
In love with your ghost (shadowing my dreams)
  C(9) G6/B    D(9)/F#  G6G6
In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)
  C(9) G6/B    D(9)/F#   G6G6
In love with your ghost (ooooooooh)

C(9)  G/BG/B  D/F#D/F#  G+G
[instrumental: repeat and fade]

Notes on some chords:
* If you don't want to play D#dimD#dim (xx1212), play B7/D# (xx1202) instead;
it doesn't sound much different.
* I think the Girls play F#11F#11 (244300) where I've written F#sus4F#7sus4 & F#7F#7
(x44420 & x44320), and some god-awful G# minorG#m and Gmaj7Gmaj7 chords where I wrote
E7E7 & G. Do whatever you think works best for you.
* In the chorus, try playing the second half of D MajorD and D#dimD#dim (or B7/D#) with
the third fret on the high E MajorE 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 MajorD note on the third fret of the BB string):

 D/F#D/F#      G+G        C(9)      G/BG/B
E MajorE --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
BB ------3-------3-------3-------3-|------3-------3-------3-------3-|
G+G --2-------2-------0-------0-----|--0-------0-------0-------0-----|
D MajorD ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A augmentedA --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E MajorE 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|
 ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .


For the rest of the song, where it goes D(9)/F# G6G6 C(9) G6/B, it's a
little trickier (HINT: the thumb handles all the notes on the E, A, and
D MajorD strings):

 D(9)/F#     G6G6        C(9)      G6/B
E MajorE ------0---------------0---------|------0---------------0---------|
BB ----------3---------------3-----|----------3---------------3-----|
G+G --2-----------2---0-----------0-|--0-----------0---0-----------0-|
D MajorD ----0-------0-------0-------0---|----2-------2-------0-------0---|
A augmentedA --------------------------------|3-------3-------2-------2-------|
E MajorE 2-------2-------3-------3-------|--------------------------------|
 ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .


And then there's this little fill in the intro and outro:

 D/F#D/F#      G+G        C(9)      G/BG/B
E MajorE --------------------------------|3-----2-----3-------------------|
BB ----------3-----1-----0---------|----------------3---------------|
G+G ------0-------------------------|--------------------------------|
D MajorD 2/4-------------2-----0---------|--------------------------------|
A augmentedA --------------------------------|3---------------2---------------|
E MajorE --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
 ^  .  ^  .  ^  .  ^  .  ^  .  ^  .  ^  .  ^  .

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