The Silver Ghost chords by
Merle Haggard

N/A

Key: C minor

Intro 1

Faug

C#aug

Faug

Verse 1
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Here's a story song
Am Am 
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of an old railroad legend
that treads on the very edge
of the supernatural.
On a cold and rainy night,
C C 
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I was sittin' in the light of
Am Am 
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my switchman's shack,
G G 
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Am Am 
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a mine post on the mountain.
The storm was pretty bad
C C 
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and the telephone was dead,
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G G 
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Am Am 
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but it was just eleven hours till the dawn.
C C 
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Then, much to my surprise,
G G 
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the telegraph jumped into life
Dm Dm 
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As I read the code,
Am Am 
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I thought, could this be true?
A train was on its way,
C C 
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headed up the mountain grade
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G G 
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Am Am 
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But she didn't have no en gineer or crew
At the other switch,
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they tried to put her on the mountain side
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But she kept on coming up
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the mountain grade
Well, I quickly doused the light
C C 
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to try to see into the night
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Maybe I could spot her head
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Am Am 
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light in the rain
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She was pounding down below,
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I could hear her whistle blow
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And I thought, Lord,
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that's a high and mournful sound
Then the telegraph again,
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there's a cave -in at the mine
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G G 
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And a hundred men are buried
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beneath the ground
Lord, she's coming now
Db Db 4
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I see round the bend and straight at me
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And her boiler's    glowing
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red as  coal in hell
The headlights switching wide
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Searching all the mountainside
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But the only  sound she's
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making is a wail
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Then I recognized the train
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by the number and the name
Ebm Ebm 6
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It's the Miner's  Silver
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Ghost O41
Then she vanished up the track
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By the lonely switchman's shack
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Like a mother who was look
Ab Ab 4
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ing for her son
Now I heard a story
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How an engine went to glory
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Over fifty years ago on  this same line
It was steamin' for a cavin'
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There were men who needed savin'
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But it missed a curb
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and trestle near the mine
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And every now and then
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you'll hear a whistle on the wind
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If a mountain  slides
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and many men are lost
It's a high and lonely wailin'
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Searchin' up  and down the mountain
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It's the train they call the
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Miner's Silver Ghost
The train they call the
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Miner's Silver Ghost
Ab Ab 4
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The train they call the Miner's Silver Ghost
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