The Banshee chords by Rob Meulman

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Verse 1
Em 
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Em 
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D 
Em 
 (E minor) Oooo -oo -oo,  (D major) ooo  (E minor)  (G major)  (D major)  (E minor) 
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 (B major) 
Em 
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Em 
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Cdim 
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 (E minor)  (B major)  (E minor)  (B major)  (Cdim)  (E minor) 
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 (B major) 
Cdim 
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Em 
 (Cdim) When   I  (B major)  (E minor) drove into this little town
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Em 
I  (G major) knew  (D major) so well  (E minor) 
Childhood memories following me,
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many a tale to tell  (B major) 
Em 
I  (E minor) thought I heard a whispering
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Em 
driving down  (D major) the hills  (E minor) 
Hollow eyes staring right at me,
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Em 
a  (D major) cold familiar chill  (E minor) 
D 
Tales  (D major) of fear and ghostery
Em 
once ravaged  (E minor) this old town
D 
The  (D major) pale -ish girl,
Em 
the shutters going down  (E minor) 
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The wailing in the night  (B minor) was heard,
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the  (C major) message of death  (D major) occurred.  (E minor) 
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 (D major)  (E minor)  (D major)  (E minor) 
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 (B major)  (E minor)  (D major)  (E minor) 
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 (D major) 
Em 
 (E minor) When my family called on me
D 
after all  (D major) these years
Em 
My  (E minor) loving wife kept telling me
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to never go near  (B major) 
Em 
Still  (E minor) I   went down for
one more time
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Em 
ignoring all  (D major) my fears  (E minor) 
The long forgotten troubled
D 
son finally  (D major) appeared
Em 
D 
 (E minor) My   (D major) younger brother welcomed me,
Em 
said you've  (E minor) been gone too long
D 
It's  (D major) good to have you right
Em 
where you belong  (E minor) 
And then my mother
Bm 
showed a  (B minor) worried face
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She said,  (C major) forever back  (D major) in this place  (E minor)  (D major)  (E minor) 
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Em 
 (D major)  (E minor) 
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 (B major)  (E minor)  (D major)  (E minor) 
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Em 
 (D major)  (B minor)  (E minor) 
We drank, we talked, we laughed,
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Em 
we walked like nothing  (D major) changed  (E minor) 
The misty hills, the empty streets,
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everything in place  (B major) 
Em 
But some (E minor) how I felt like
time ran out,
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Em 
although I  (D major) could not tell  (E minor) 
My old room, my old place
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Em 
was  (D major) never rearranged  (E minor) 
D 
At  (D major) night I heard the whispering winds,
Em 
the talk (E minor) ing down below
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Em 
The  (D major) sun muffled footsteps on the stairs  (E minor) 
Bm 
The pale red lady in  (B minor) front of me,
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I was  (C major) hardly aware  (D major)  (E minor)  (D major)  (E minor) 
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I couldn't  (D major) talk, I couldn't move,
Em 
I could  (E minor) not really see
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Her pier (D major) cing eyes were looking
Em 
straight through  (E minor) me
Bm 
And then she whispered in  (B minor) my ear,
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she said for  (C major) you,
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Em 
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it's  (D major) time to go  (E minor)  (D major)  (E minor) 
Oo -oo -oo -oo -ooh