{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1124292,"song":"Ghost","artist":"Indigo Girls","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11249995-ghost-chords-by-indigo-girls/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1124292?type=chord","rating":4.80493,"votes":36,"content":"GHOST - Indigo Girls\r\n\r\nThis version is complete with authentic chords & list of fingerings, verse picking \r\npatterns, plus lead-in riffs to the chorus and last verse.\r\n\r\nIntro/verse:\r\n[tab][ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]Cadd9[/ch]  [ch]G/B[/ch]\r\n(see figures at bottom of page)[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nThere's a letter on the desktop, that I dug out of a drawer\r\nThe last truce we ever came to, from our adolescent war\r\nAnd I start to feel the fever, from the warm air through the screen\r\nYou come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams\r\n\r\n(extra [ch]Cadd9[/ch]  [ch]G/B[/ch]  [ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch])\r\n\r\nWell, the Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota\r\nAt a place that you could walk across with five steps down\r\nAnd I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart\r\n[tab]            [ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Cadd9[/ch]\r\nBut at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      (strum)  [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]D#dim7[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Em7[/ch]       [ch]A7sus4[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\n   And there's not enough room in this world for my pain[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]D/C#[/ch]               [ch]Bm7[/ch]\r\n   Signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]D#dim7[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Em7[/ch]        [ch]A7sus4[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch]\r\n   Of all my demon spirits I need you the most[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Cadd9[/ch]  [ch]G/B[/ch]  [ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n   I'm in love with your ghost[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Cadd9[/ch]  [ch]G/B[/ch]  [ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n   I'm in love with your ghost[/tab]\r\n\r\nDark and dangerous like a secret, that gets whispered in a hush\r\nWhen I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush\r\nWhen you kiss me like a lover, then you sting me like a viper\r\nI go follow to the river, play your memory like the piper\r\n\r\n   And I feel it like a sickness, how this love is killing me\r\n   But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly\r\n   And dance the edge of sanity, I've never been this close\r\n   In love with your ghost\r\n[tab]   [ch]Cadd9[/ch]        [ch]G/B[/ch]       [ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Cadd9[/ch]        [ch]G/B[/ch]       [ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOo oo-oo ooooooooooooo oo-oo oooooo oo oooo[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  (strum) [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Em7[/ch]                        [ch]A7sus4[/ch]    [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nUnknowing captor, you'll never know how much you[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]D/C#[/ch]         [ch]F#11[/ch]\r\nPierced my spirit, but I can't touch you[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Bm[/ch]        [ch]Bm/A[/ch]      [ch]Bm/G#[/ch]   [ch]Bm/A[/ch]*\r\nCan you hear it, a cry to be free[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B7[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D/C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n  I'm forever under lock and key as you pass through me (bridge riff)[/tab]\r\n\r\nNow I see your face before me, I would launch a thousand ships\r\nTo bring your heart back to my island, as the sand beneath me slips\r\nAs I burn up in your presence, and I know now how it feels\r\nTo be weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels\r\n\r\n   And my bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep\r\n   It poisons me, I can't swim free, the river is too deep\r\n   Though I'm baptized by your touch, I am no worse at most\r\n[tab]      [ch]Cadd9[/ch]  [ch]G6/B[/ch]       [ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]   [ch]G6[/ch]\r\n   In love with your ghost[/tab]\r\n   In love with your ghost x3  (shadowing my dreams; ooooooooh x2)\r\n\r\nEnd with outro fill & riff. Strum D/F# to finish (200232).\r\n\r\n\r\nChords (in order of appearance):\r\n[ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]  200230\r\n[ch]G[/ch]         3x0030\r\n[ch]Cadd9[/ch]     x32030\r\n[ch]G/B[/ch]       x20030\r\n[ch]D[/ch]         xx0232\r\n[ch]D#dim7[/ch]    xx1212\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]        022000\r\nEm7       022030 (strum backwards and hold two beats in Bridge)[/tab]\r\n[ch]A7sus4[/ch]    x02030\r\n[ch]A7[/ch]        x02020\r\n[ch]D/C#[/ch]      x4x232\r\n[ch]Bm7[/ch]       x24232\r\n[ch]F#11[/ch]      244300\r\n[ch]Bm[/ch]        x24432\r\n[ch]Bm/A[/ch]      x04432\r\n[ch]Bm/G#[/ch]     4x4430\r\n[ch]Bm/A[/ch]*     x04430\r\n[ch]B7[/ch]        x24242\r\n[ch]E[/ch]         022100\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]        x02210\r\n[ch]C[/ch]         x32010\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]Intro/Outro Fill (skip initial hammer-on first time through):\r\ne|-------------------------------------|-3-----2-----3--------------|\r\nB|---------------3-----1-----0---------|-----------------3----------|\r\nG|-----------0---------0-----0---------|----------------------------|\r\nD|-(0h)2/4-------------2-----0---------|----------------------------|\r\nA|-------------------------------------|-3---------------2----------|\r\nE|-------------------------------------|----------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]Intro/1st Verse/Outro Riff:\r\n   [ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Cadd9[/ch]           [ch]G/B[/ch]\r\ne|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|\r\nB|-------3-------3-------3-------3-|-------3-------3-------3-------3-|\r\nG|---2-------2-------0-------0-----|---0-------0-------0-------0-----|\r\nD|-----0-------0-------0-------0---|-----2-------2-------0-------0---|\r\nA|---------------------------------|-3-------3-------2-------2-------|\r\nE|-2-------2-------3-------3-------|---------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]Main Riff (technically starts at Cadd9 for instrumental after 1st verse):\r\n   [ch]Dsus2/F#[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Cadd9[/ch]           [ch]G/B[/ch]\r\ne|-------0---------------0---------|-------0---------------0---------|\r\nB|-----------3---------------3-----|-----------3---------------3-----|\r\nG|---2-----------2---0-----------0-|---0-----------0---0-----------0-|\r\nD|-----0-------0-------0-------0---|-----2-------2-------0-------0---|\r\nA|---------------------------------|-3-------3-------2-------2-------|\r\nE|-2-------2-------3-------3-------|---------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   Cadd9 Riff before each chorus:   (and on to strum chorus chords)\r\ne|-------3-------3-------3-------3-|-2...------------------------|\r\nB|-----------0-------0-------0-----|-3...------------------------|\r\nG|---0-----------------------------|-2...------------------------|\r\nD|-----2-------2-------2-------2---|-0...------------------------|\r\nA|-3-------3-------3-------3-------|-----------------------------|\r\nE|---------------------------------|-----------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]Bridge Outro Riff:\r\n   [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]D/C[/ch]               [ch]G/B[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\ne|-------2---------------0---------|-------0----------2----------|\r\nB|---3-------3---3-----------3---3-|-----------3---3--3----------|\r\nG|-----2-------2-----2-------------|---0---------0----2----------|\r\nD|-0-------0-----------0-------0---|-----0------------0----------|\r\nA|-----------------3-------3-------|-2-------2-------------------|\r\nE|---------------------------------|-----------------------------|[/tab]","plain_text":"GHOST - Indigo Girls\n\nThis version is complete with authentic chords & list of fingerings, verse picking \npatterns, plus lead-in riffs to the chorus and last verse.\n\nIntro/verse:\n\n\n\nThere's a letter on the desktop, that I dug out of a drawer\nThe last truce we ever came to, from our adolescent war\nAnd I start to feel the fever, from the warm air through the screen\nYou come regular like seasons, shadowing my dreams\n\n(extra Cadd9  G/B  Dsus2/F#  G)\n\nWell, the Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota\nAt a place that you could walk across with five steps down\nAnd I guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDark and dangerous like a secret, that gets whispered in a hush\nWhen I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush\nWhen you kiss me like a lover, then you sting me like a viper\nI go follow to the river, play your memory like the piper\n\n   And I feel it like a sickness, how this love is killing me\n   But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly\n   And dance the edge of sanity, I've never been this close\n   In love with your ghost\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNow I see your face before me, I would launch a thousand ships\nTo bring your heart back to my island, as the sand beneath me slips\nAs I burn up in your presence, and I know now how it feels\nTo be weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels\n\n   And my bitter pill to swallow is the silence that I keep\n   It poisons me, I can't swim free, the river is too deep\n   Though I'm baptized by your touch, I am no worse at most\n\n   In love with your ghost x3  (shadowing my dreams; ooooooooh x2)\n\nEnd with outro fill & riff. Strum D/F# to finish (200232).\n\n\nChords (in order of appearance):\nDsus2/F#  200230\nG         3x0030\nCadd9     x32030\nG/B       x20030\nD         xx0232\nD#dim7    xx1212\n\nA7sus4    x02030\nA7        x02020\nD/C#      x4x232\nBm7       x24232\nF#11      244300\nBm        x24432\nBm/A      x04432\nBm/G#     4x4430\nBm/A*     x04430\nB7        x24242\nE         022100\nAm        x02210\nC         x32010","chords":["Dsus2/F#","G","Cadd9","G/B","D","D#dim7","Em","Em7","A7sus4","A7","D/C#","Bm7","F#11","Bm","Bm/A","Bm/G#","B7","E","Am","C","D/C","G6/B","G6","D/F"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"A7sus4":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,3,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"Bm7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,0,2,0,3],"frets":[-1,2,0,2,0,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Cadd9":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,0,3,0],"frets":[-1,3,2,0,3,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"Em7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,0,3,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,3,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G/B":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,0,0,0,2],"frets":[-1,2,0,0,0,3]}}}