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