The Ghost That Haunts Me Chords
The Ghost That Haunts Me by Crash Test Dummies is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, C, Em7, D, Cadd9 and Dsus. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro:
| G C | Em7 D Cadd9 / | D G | Cadd9 / / D ||
verse 1:
G Cadd9 Em7 D Cadd9
There's a skeleton, in every body's closet
D G Cadd9 D
I can think of one or two in my own room
G Cadd9 Em7 D Cadd9
But I would like to intro - duce them both to you
D G Cadd9
Shake their bony hands and so dispel the gloom
D G
Cause your so kind
Cadd9
I know you would not mind
Em7 G Em7 - Cadd9
You'd send away the ghosts that haunt me now
D G
And the things I fear
Cadd9
Just wouldn't seem so near
Em7 G
And when I stroll out late at night
Cadd9 G Cadd9 / / / | / / / D |
There would be nothin' rattlin' at my heels
2nd:x Cadd9 / / / | / / D G |
||: G C | G Dsus :||
verse 2:
G Cadd9 Em7 D Cadd9
There are nights when all my aching bones won't let me sleep
D G Cadd9 D
And demons come to plague me as I lie in bed
G Cadd9 Em7 D Cadd9
But I know if you were sleeping there be - side me then
D G Cadd9
That you would fend them off and they would let me rest
Bridge:
Cadd9 G
There are nights
D G
When the wind comes howling through my old place
Cadd9 G
I have dreams
D G
And I wake up with the sweat pouring down my face
Cadd9 | Em7 D ||: G C | G Dsus :||
And I wait......... Till the morning comes
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Solo:
|G C | Em7 D Cadd9 / | Dsus G | Cadd9 / / D |
|G C | Em7 D Cadd9 / | Dsus G | Cadd9 / / / |
|D G | Cadd9 | Em7 G | Em7 - Cadd9 |
|D G | Cadd9 | Em7 G | Em7 - G | Cadd9 / / / | Cadd9 / D / |
verse 3:
G Cadd9 Em7 D Cadd9
There will come a time I fear when all my days are done
D G Cadd9 D
And they will come collect my corpse and bury me
G Cadd9 Em7 D Cadd9
But I hope that you'll come over to the Other Side
D G Cadd9
Join me in our new life, keep me company
D G
Cause your so kind
Cadd9
I know you would not mind
Em7 G Em7 - Cadd9
You'd send away the ghosts that haunt me now
D G
And the things I fear
Cadd9
Just wouldn't seem so near
Em7 G
And when I stroll out late at night
Cadd9 G Cadd9 / / / | Cadd9 / D / |G ||
There would be nothin' rattlin' at my heels