{"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":71054,"song":"The Ghost Ship","artist":"Robyn Hitchcock","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11545197-the-ghost-ship-chords-by-robyn-hitchcock/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/71054?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"\"The Ghost Ship\" by Robyn Hitchcock\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]A[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe ghost ship haunts the sea[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nto still come back and marry me[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe rust is where her heart should be tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHer face is where her fingers were tonight[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nA glassy checkered engine room[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nThe speechless silence of the tomb[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe manuscripts inside the womb unfurls[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nA girl[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTranslucent as a jelly fish[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nthat palpitates upon a dish[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe stings you with her gently falling curl[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd sinking in the waters green tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI wonder where my love has been tonight[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe ghost ship changes course[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nand on the deck there stands a horse[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nwho's munching on sardines and gorse and hay[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe captain draws a net across the bay[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe bubbles rising from the deep[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nwhere dead men sing themselves to sleep[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFrom oak and coral they deceive to say[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOkay[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou read my future like a chart[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nSee through my skin into my heart[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat flutters in my ribcage like a bird[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd the ghost ship sails on into someone's life[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe air from bottles forms into[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nthe skeletons of all the crew[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn white they dance against the blue and wail[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTheir curling bodies flail around the sail[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe figurehead before the mast[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nstares back into the golden past[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAcross the wrinkled sea so vast, forlorn[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe moans[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShe flutters 'round me like a moth[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nthat beats against mosquito cloth[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand tries to eat her way into my dreams[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd sinking in the waters green tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI wonder where my love has been tonight[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe melons on the riverbank[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nare bulging through decaying plank[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTheir beauty is so warm and dank and light[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe captain wears a headless grin tonight[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd silhouetted on the blue[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nThe cook, the mate, the bosun too[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThey know not why or what they do at all[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey fall[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLike masonry in the abyss[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nthat opens every time we kiss[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bm[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI hear their laughter echo 'round the bay[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd the ghost ship sails on into someone's life[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\n[ch]F#m[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]F#[/ch]\r\n[ch]D7[/ch]    [ch]F#[/ch]   [ch]D7[/ch]   [ch]F#[/ch]","plain_text":"\"The Ghost Ship\" by Robyn Hitchcock\n\n[Intro]\nA\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nD    A\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nD     A    D    A\nF#m   D    E    F#\nD7    F#   D7   F#","chords":["A","F#m","D","E","Bm","G","F#","D7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}