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Song title:      Ghost Train
Original Album:  Still Life With Guitar

Words and Music by Kevin Ayers
Copyright © 1992 DNVMusic
Published by DNVMusic

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Notes:
The second bar of the figure is a mandolin part. If you play mandolin: great!
(You can work it out yourself.) If you don't, you can emulate this on guitar
but it's a stretch...


[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x4]

Guitar Figure 1

  G           G(II)       G           D             D5      D
|---------------------------------|---14-14-14--14--17------14------|
|-0________---3____-------0-------|---15-15-15--15--15------15------|
|-0________---0____-------0-------|---14-14-14--14--14------14------|
|-0________---0____-------0-------|---------------------------------|
|-2________---2____-------2-------|---------------------------------|
|-3________---3____-------3-------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |




VERSE1:
Chords:
A       x02220
Aadd9   xx7657 or x2222x



Guitar Figure 1
  G           G(II)       G           D             D5      D
|---------------------------------|---14-14-14--14--17------14------|
|-0________---3____-------0-------|---15-15-15--15--15------15------|
|-0________---0____-------0-------|---14-14-14--14--14------14------|
|-0________---0____-------0-------|---------------------------------|
|-2________---2____-------2-------|---------------------------------|
|-3________---3____-------3-------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |



   | G             G(II)   G       | D     -     D5   -  D
I’m  sitting here  picking the       holes

| G                G(II)   G       | D     -     D5   -  D
                   in      my        sneakers

| G                G(II)   G       | D     -     D5   -  D
                   Watching the      moves                   of those

| G                G(II)   G       | D     -     D5   -  D
                   Midnight          Creepers.               There's a



  A          Aadd9                      Bm         Bsus4    Bm
|-5-----------7-------------------|---------------------------------|
|-5-----------5-------------------|-----3-3-3---3---5-------3-------|
|-6-----------6-------------------|-----4-4-4---4---4-------4-------|
|-7-----------7-------------------|-----4-4-4---4---4-------4-------|
|-7-----------7-------------------|---------------------------------|
|-5-----------5-------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |

| A          Aadd9                |     Bm          Bsus4   Bm
  smell                   of  a     song                    rustling

| A                               |     Bm          Bsus4   Bm
  through         my                head

| A                               |     Bm          Bsus4   Bm
                  Something about   being                   somewhere




  G               D                 Em                      D         Em                      D
|-3---------------2---------------|-0-----------0---0-------2-------|-0-------0-0-0---0-------2------|
|-3---------------3---------------|-0-----------0---0-------3-------|-0-------0-0-0---0-------3------|
|-4---------------2---------------|-0-----------0---0-------2-------|-0-------0-0-0---0-------2------|
|-5---------------0---------------|-2-----------2---2-------0-------|-2-------2-2-2---2-------0------|
|-5-------------------------------|-2-----------2---2---------------|-2-------2-2-2---2--------------|
|---------------------------------|-0-----------0---0---------------|-0-------0-0-0---0--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |
  G               D                 Em
  else            in         -      stead.





VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.


And the ghost train comes blowing on in — through this town;
Picking up the passengers, then putting them down.


And the wind steals a leaf, like the ghost of a thief,
And the autumnal wind blows around and around.




CHORUS:
Notes:
On the second line F is a transition chord to the C of the next line.
It is played on the last beat of the bar.

Chords:
A  x02220               C  x32010
Bb x13331 and 688766    F  x33211
D  x57775


A           Bb               D             F           Bb
  Oh, those horses of smoke!   sneaking in through the trees.

A           Bb                       D               | Bb F |
  There’s a shaking and a shuddering   that goes to my knees.

C                 F          C                F
  I wonder what’s happening?   Did I miss the joke?

C              F         C          F
  Another year sleeping;   I never awoke.



[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]



VERSE3:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

There was plenty of war; and plenty of death.
Plenty of hunger and wasting of breath.

And all I did was scratch myself and dream a few dreams.
And I wrote a few notes on what I think it all means.




CHORUS2:
Notes:
Play as for CHORUS1.

Chords:
A  x02220               C  x32010
Bb x13331 and 688766    F  x33211
D  x57775


A     Bb                   D             F        Bb
  But reading them all now   they don’t amount to much.

A         Bb              D           | Bb F |
  There’s no meat to eat;   no flesh to touch.

C                 F   C                   F
  A few dreams of you   and a few fish to fry;

C                  F        C                 F
  I just sat there watching   another year go by.

C         F       C         F       C         F
  Another year...   Another year...   Another year



[repeat CHORUS1]



| F         | C
    Another   year...

[repeat to fade]