Ghost Train

-- GHOST TRAIN -- Counting Crows

From: Paul Hutchinson

NB The verses of this are a bit harmonically strange in that, like Round

Here and Time and Time Again, the guitar is not playing chords during

the verses, and so the bass carries the song rather a lot. However, I

get the impression that the verses are based on Dm the whole way

through, with the bass guitar playing Ds and Fs (and a G just before

the first verse). This should make the song horribly boring for you if

you're trying to play it by yourself without a bass guitarist, but

them's the breaks.

On the album, the guitar and some other strange instrument are messing

about with the following notes during the verses - listen to the tape

to get a better idea:

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|Dm |Dm Dm/F |Dm |Dm Dm/G |

I took the cannonball down to the ocean

Across the desert from sea to shining sea

I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation C/G

Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me

"How do you do?"

She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

She buys a ticket cause it's cold where she comes from

She climbs aboard because she's scared of getting older in the snow

Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness C/G

Hold on to me darling I've got nowhere else to go

"How do you do?"

She said, "Hey, how do you do?" hey...

|Fmaj9 |C/G |Am |Am |

Yeah.

|Fmaj9 |C/G |Am |Am |

|Fmaj9 |C/G |Am |Am |

|Fmaj9 |C/G |Am |Am |D G ....

I took the cannonball down to the ocean

Watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves

Love is a ghost train howling on the radio C/G

"Remember everything." she said, "when only memory remains."

"How do you do?"

She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

"How do you do?"

She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

Chords used: Dm xx0231 C/G 332010 Fmaj9 133010

Em7 022030 Am x02210