Ghost Train chords by
Marty Robbins
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Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Way out west an Arizona cowboy
tends the herd
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The dessert lies beneath a sky of blue
Far away, in brightest day,
a ghostly sound is heard
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The phantom of the rail comes into view
Verse 2
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Hear that lonesome whistle callin'
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On his lonely ear is fallin'
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Loud and clear,
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just hear that lonesome wail
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But it's just the ghost,
the phantom of the rail
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Verse 3
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Little did he know the train
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was wrecked in '84
After it had crossed the Great
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Divide
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Every year it tries again
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to make it just once more
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If only to the California Line
Verse 4
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Hear that lonesome whistle callin'
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On the barren desert fallin'
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Loud and clear,
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just hear that lonesome wail
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But it's just the ghost,
the phantom of the rail
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Verse 5
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Clickity- clack along the track,
it's boiler showin' red
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As on it comes along the rusty rails
People that are ridin' in the
cars have long been dead
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Lost in time along the Phantom Trail
Verse 6
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Hear that lonesome whistle callin'
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On the barren desert fallin'
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Is it real to feel the very
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ground beneath him shake
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As on it comes,
the only run it ever makes
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Verse 7
Cross here comes the phantom,
as his eyes in wonder gaze
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His pony shys and heads in for the brush
And as it comes upon him terror grips his heart,
amazed
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Leapin' to avoid it's onward rush
Verse 8
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Hear that lonesome whistle callin'
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On the barren dessert fallin'
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Thought he saw the engineer,
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thought he heard him once more wail
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As on he went, forever bent,
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on stayin' on the ghost train rail
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