Ghost Town chords by
Adam Snyder
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Key: A major

Intro 1

Verse 1
B B 
 
Right down in the summer
What the winter has taken away
Make a note of what's
been left for dead
Right now, to be honest
I don't care what the people say
Or if the summer sun don't
go on and beat my head
G#m G#m 
 
C# C# 
 
The power's out downtown tonight
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
But it  don't matter to me
F# F# 
 
G#m G#m 
 
C# C# 
 
I'm still gonna walk around tonight
F# F# 
 
And see what I can't see
B B 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
And write it down
This uneven sidewalk
Made of stone so blue
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
Sometimes even trips me in the day
But right now I can hear it talking
E E 
 
Underneath my shoe
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
I   can hear the long gone people say
G#m G#m 
 
C# C# 
 
One   thing brighter than a barn dance
F# F# 
 
Is the whole barn burning down
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
And then  one night we
C# C# 
 
had the chance
F# F# 
 
Burned whole damn town,
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
they burned it down
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Nineteenth century Irishman
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Dug that big canal and then
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
The railroad come and
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
blew it all away
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Big old German breweries
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Cigar -shirt -rigged factories
B B 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Only whispered voices
B B 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
now remain
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
C# C# 
 
Paddy went uptown to vote
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
On  election day
F# F# 
 
G#m G#m 
 
C# C# 
 
They hit   his head like a billy goat
F# F# 
 
Set him to  his early grave,
B B 
 
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
his unmarred blade
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Distant waters, great depression
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
A A 
 
E E 
 
Sometimes leave a  big impression
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
But sometimes people bring
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
it on  themselves
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
T   -Car garage, great invention
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Chuckin' middle class ambition
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
Leave your road downtown
G#m G#m 
 
G G 
 
B B 
 
and   hollow shell
E E 
 
B B 
 
Em Em 
 
G#m G#m 
 
Your shiny strip
C# C# 
 
mall landscape
F# F# 
 
Seems   so clownish now
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
C# C# 
 
Built to serve one company
F# F# 
 
And the company moves out
F#aug F#aug 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
A A 
 
B B 
 
They're  moving south

Interlude 1
E E 
 
G G 
 
B B 
 
A A 
 
B B 
 
G G 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
A A 
 
Bm Bm 
 
A A 
 
E E 
 
G G 
 
F#m F#m 
 
E E 
 
D D 
 
F# F# 
 
Bm Bm 
 
B B 
 
A A 
 
E E 
 
G G 
 
F#m F#m 
 
E E 
 
D D 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
So right

Verse 2
now in the summer
This desolation haze
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
Might be a bit more pre
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
cious than it seems
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
Cause the city folk
A A 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
s  just found us
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
They want to make our old downtown
A A 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
look like them pictures in their
B B 
 
Em Em 
 
B B 
 
E E 
 
B B 
 
magazine
G#m G#m 
 
C# C# 
 
Power 's coming back all night,
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
you better walk real fast
G#m G#m 
 
Enjoy   your night out
C# C# 
 
with the ghosts,
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
cause it  ain't gonna last
G#m G#m 
 
C# C# 
 
Oh,   there's something insidious
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
been creeping around this town
G#m G#m 
 
C# C# 
 
Now   it's own facsimile is
F# F# 
 
comin' to knock it down
G G 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
So write it down,
A A 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
B B 
 
G G 
 
B B 
 
A A 
 
write it down
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
G G 
 
B B 
 
G#m G#m 
 
G G 
 
B B 
 
F# F# 
 
B B 
 
Paint a picture and     write it down
E E 
 
Em Em 
 
Bm Bm 
 
A A 
 
E E 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
E E 
 
D D 
 
F# F# 
 
Bm Bm 
 
A A 
 
E E 
 
G G 
 
F#m F#m 
 
E E 
 
D D 
 
F# F# 
 
I'll take it in my  stride
B B

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