{"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":2222701,"song":"Silver Ghost","artist":"Wildwood Valley Boys","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11469758-silver-ghost-chords-by-wildwood-valley-boys/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2222701?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":48,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOn one cold and rainy night I was sitting in the light[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nOf my switchman's shack on my post on the mountain[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe storm was pretty bad and the telegraph was dead[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Dm[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut it was just eleven hours 'til the dawn.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen much to my surprise the telegraph jumped into life[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bb[/ch]                                     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAs I read the code I thought could this be true[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Dm[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nA train was on it's way headed up the mountain grade[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut she didn't have no engineer or crew.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAt the other switch they tried to put her on the mountainside[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut she kept on coming up the mountain grade[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Dm[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI quickly doused the light to try to see into the night[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nMaybe I could spot her headlight in the rain.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe was pounding down below I could hear her whistle blow[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Bb[/ch]                                     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd I thought lord thats a high and mournful sound[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThen the telegraph began “There's a cave-in at the mine[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd a hundred men are buried ‘neath the ground”[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Dm[/ch] x2\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Dm[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut Lord she's coming now I see around the bend and straight at me[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd her boiler's glowing red as coal in hell[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe headlight switch is wide searching all the mountainside[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut the only sound she's making is the wail[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen I recognize the train by the number and the name[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Bb[/ch]                        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIt's the Miner's Silver Ghost Old 41[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThen she vanished up the track by the lonely switchman's shack[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nLike a mother who is looking for her son[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nNow I heard a story of how an engine went to glory[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nOver fifty years ago on this same line[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nit was steamin’ for a cave-in there were men that needed saving[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nBut it missed the curve and trestle near the mine.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd every now and then you'll hear her whistle on the wind[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bb[/ch]                               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIf the mountain slides and many men are lost[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt's the high and lonely wailing searching up and down the mountain[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThe train they call the Miner's Silver Ghost[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThe train they call the Miner's Silver Ghost[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThe train they call the Miner's Silver Ghost[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nDm Dm   F    Dm  C  Dm\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nDm   F    Dm  C  Dm x2\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["Dm","F","C","Bb","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]}}}