The Silver Ghost chords by Merle Haggard, The Strangers
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Verse 1
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On a cold
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and rainy night I was sittin' in the light
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Oh my switchman shack of mine
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post on the mountain
The storms were pretty bad and
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the telephone was dead
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But it was just eleven hours till the dawn.
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Verse 2
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Then much to my surprice
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the telegraph jumped in the light
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As I read the code I thought
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could this be true
The train was on its way headed
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up to mountain grade
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But she didn't have no engineer or crew.
Verse 3
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At the other switch they tried to put her
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on the mountain side
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But she kept on coming
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up the mountain grade
But I quickly dowse the light to
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try to see into the night
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Maybe I could spot her head
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light in the rain.
Verse 4
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She was poundin' down below I
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could hear her whistle blow
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And I thought Lord that's a high
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and mournful sound
Then the telegraph again there's
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a caving in the mine
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And the hundred men have burried
neath the ground.
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Verse 5
Lord, she's coming now I see her round
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the bend and straight at me
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And her ballet is glowin'
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red as coal in hell
The headlinght switchin' wide
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searchin' all the mountain side
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But the only sound she's
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making it's a wail.
Verse 6
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Then I re cognized the train by
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the number and the name
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It's from miners Silver Ghost
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Then she vanished up the track
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by the lonely swutchman shack
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Like a mother who was
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looking for her son.
Verse 7
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Now I heard the story how
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an engine went to glory
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Over fifty years ago in the same line
It was steaming for the caving there
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were men needed saving
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But it missed the curve in
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trestle near the mine.
Verse 8
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And every now and then you'll
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hear a whistle on the wind
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It's from mountail slides
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where many men're lost
It's a high and lonely wail and searching
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up and down the mountain
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It's the train they call the Miners
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Silver Ghost.
Verse 9
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The train they call the Miners
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Silver Ghost.
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The train they call the Miners Silver Ghost...
The Silver Ghost
Merle Haggard, The Strangers
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