Ghost Riders In The Sky tab by Stan Jones

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[GHOST] RIDERS IN THE SKY

 -- Stan Jones, 1949
 -- "rock" guitar arrangement: tcg, c.1983 (re-arranged, transcribed 7/94)
  --2/4 // Key of A minorAm // Allegro (pretty quick)
  --heavy reverb preferred; heavy "fuzz" neat, too
  --Right-hand muffle thruout optional (required for "glisses" [see next])--
  --notation for descending (and ascending) "picked-muffled glissandos"
    approximate (it's that Surfari/"Pipeline" thing)
  --note durations: s=sixteenth note; e=eighth; e.=dotted eighth; q=quarter;
    q3=triplet quarter notes; [q]=quarter rest; [e]=eighth rest

 VERSE {embellished melody}--
    (A minorAm)                 (C majorC)
 |---||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
 |---||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
 |---||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
 |---||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
 |---||---0--0---0---2---|--(2)h3-3--3--0--|-----------------|---------------|
 |-0-||------------------|-----------------|--3---3--3---0---|----3----------|
  e   e. s  e  e     e. s e e   e. s e  e    q  [q]

                     (A minorAm)
 |------------------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
 |------------------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
 |------------------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
 |------------------------|--------------|----------------|---------------0--|
 |------------------------|--------------|--0---0--0---2--|--(2)h3--3--3-----|
 |--12-12-11-11-10-10-9-9-|-8-8-7-7-6\-0-|----------------|------------------|
   s s s s s s s s  s s s s e e  e. s e  e    e. s e e
  { r i g h t - h a n d m u f f l e}

 (C majorC)
 |------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
 |------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
 |------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
 |-(0)h2--2-2p0-----|---2----------|-14-14-13-13-12-12-11-11|--10-10-9-9-8\-2|
 |---------------3--|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
 |------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
   e. s s s e   q  [q]   s s s s s s s s  s s s s e e
                   { r i g h t - h a n d  m u f f l e}

 (A minorAm)
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |-------2--2---2---|---2--------------|------------------|------------------|
 |---2--------------|-------2--2---2---|---2---2p0--------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|--------------3---|---0-----------0--|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
   e. s e  e    e. s e  e    e. s e  e    q   [e]  e

 (FF)
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|---3---3---3------|------------------|------------------|
 |---1---1--1---1---|------------------|--1-1-2-2-3-3-4-4-|-5-5-6-6-7-7---8--|
   e. s e  e    e. s  q     s s s s s s s s  s s s s s s  e
                     { right - hand  m u f f l e }

 (A minorAm)                              .  .  .
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
 |---------------|-----7--7--7--|--7--7--7--7--|--7--7--7--7--|--7---7---7--||
 |--8---5-5--3---|--5--5--5--0--|--5--5--5--0--|--5--5--5--0--|--5---5---5--||
  e. s e e   e. s e e   e. s e e   e. s e e   q3 q3 q3
                                Yip- pi- yi-

 CHORUS {"power" chords}--
  (C majorC)                              .  .  .
 ||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
 ||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
 ||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
 ||---5---5---5---5--|--5---5---5---5---|---5---5---5---5---|---5---5---5----|
 ||---3---3---3---0--|--3---3---3---0---|---3---3---3---0---|---3---3---3----|
 ||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
   e. s  e  e   e. s  e  e    e. s  e  e    q3 q3 q3
   -ay--------------------------------------------      Yip- pi- yi-

 (A minorAm)
 |------------------|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
 |------------------|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
 |------------------|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
 |--2---2--2--------|--2---2--2---------|--2---2--2--------|--2---2--2-------|
 |--0---0--0--------|--0---0--0---------|--0---0--0--------|--0---0--0-------|
 |-------------3(b)-|------------3(b)---|-------------3(b)-|------------3(b)-|
  e. s e  e    e. s e e     e. s e  e    e. s e e
   -oh------------------------------------------

 (FF)
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |---3---3---3------|--3---3---3-------|---3---3---3------|--3---3---3-------|
 |---1---1---1---0--|--1---1---1---0---|---1---1---1---0--|--1---1---1---0---|
   e. s  e  e   e. s  e  e    e. s  e  e   e. s  e  e
   G+G h o s t     Rid - ers     i n            the

 (A minorAm)
 |-----------------|------------------|------------------|------------------||
 |-----------------|------------------|------------------|------------------||
 |-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------o||
 |-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------o||
 |--7---7---7---7--|--7---7---7---7---|--7---7---7---7---|--7---7---7-------||
 |--5---5---5---0--|--5---5---5---0---|--5---5---5---0---|--5---5---5---0---||
  e. s  e  e   e. s  e  e   e. s  e  e   e. s  e  e
   Sky--------------------------------------------------------

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