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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 Am // 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}--
       (Am)                                 (C)
 |---||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
 |---||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
 |---||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]
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                                          (Am)
 |------------------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
 |------------------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
 |------------------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
 |------------------------|--------------|----------------|---------------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)
 |------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
 |------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
 |------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
 |-(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}

  (Am)
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |-------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

  (F)
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|---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 }

  (Am)                                                           .   .   .
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
 |---------------|-----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)                                                           .   .   .
 ||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
 ||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
 ||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
 ||---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-

  (Am)
 |------------------|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
 |------------------|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
 |------------------|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
 |--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------------------------------------------

  (F)
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
 |---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 h o s t         Rid  -  ers         i n                       the

  (Am)
 |-----------------|------------------|------------------|------------------||
 |-----------------|------------------|------------------|------------------||
 |-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------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--------------------------------------------------------

*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*    _-^-_
| Thomas C. Gannon               |= "Without Contraries =|   / o)=\
* tgannon@charlie.usd.edu        *= is no progression." =*  {   /===}
| U of South Dakota (Vermillion) |==*==* --Blake-- *==*==|   \ (=o=/
*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*==*    ^-_=^

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