Ghost Repeater Capo II C All of the drunks Fmaj7 C Dressed up like Santa Claus G C Ring Salvation Army bells But the town square is quiet Fmaj7 C The juke joints are empty Everyone’s buying G C What no one can sell C Fmaj7 C G C Am Fmaj7 And the girl I loved once C Came to me last night G In a dream with a secret to tell C She whispered close Fmaj7 C Can’t you hear the ocean? As she leaned her ear G C Against a shotgun shell Chorus Dark was the night Cold was the ground I could barely make out the song Of the Ghost Repeaters Singing Hallelujah His truth is marching on Willie Mae’s crying At the toll booth to heaven With a bottle of gin And a gold-toothed smile Where the dreams pile up All washed out and broken As thick as the stars On the Miracle Mile But the (Am)movie is over The theater is empty The credits are starting to roll And the wages of sin Don't adjust for inflation It’s a buyer’s market When you sell your soul CHORUS The plaza is dark The picadors are dreaming Of blood in the alleys And rust on the vines They sandbag the bulls And prop up the matadors It’s a sweetheart contract They’re taking their time And all the ghost prisoners Who aren't in the ghost prisons Don’t weep at the sound Of your name They just stare at the clouds Of passenger pigeons Winging back home To the cities of the plain CHORUS The star up above The 5th Avenue Christmas tree Is shining tonight Through the cold and the rain To light all the faces In the live nativity Down on the floor Of the stock exchange Dark is the night Cold is the ground The armies march out to defend And the Ghost Repeaters Of the revelators Are singing "Peace on Earth And Good Will to all Men" ---------------------------------- Train to Jackson Capo II Dsus2: 200320 Am G Dsus2 Am Am Dead before the sun could rise G I stole the silver off my lover’s eyes Dsus2 Rolled out on the dark demise Am Of midnight’s breaking day I was born full grown and raised up wild G All mortal bones and passions piled Dsus2 Upon my head the blessed child Am The father of the man G Am I cut my hair and caught a train to Jackson G I took a name and found the range Am Where my voice could make no sound G I met a man he told me “Son, Am I can see you’re on the run G If you tell me where you’re going Dsus2 Am G Dsus2 Am I’ll tell you where you’re bound” They put me off outside of town A cold black rain was coming down I lay my head on the red clay ground And slept for a thousand years I woke into a fever dream Where silence talked and money screamed And nothing was but only seemed And nobody seemed to care I cut my teeth on the bread of pure temptation I tried it all and I learned to fall Like I would never hit the ground I met a ghost who looked like me I asked him, “Is it plain to see Or is it hidden?” He never made a sound I was a lion in a circus ring A scarecrow dressed up like a king Innocent of anything Like love and going blind So I set all my clothes on fire Sold my soul to any buyer Wrapped my heart in concertina wire And showed it for a song I cut and run I ran until I stumbled I struck out alone a rolling stone Forty days came up and down I chased the river to the source I met a girl on a pale horse She pressed her fingers up against my lips And I fell down dead and gone ------------------------------------- One Part Love Capo IV C Em Fmaj7 C G C I tumbled out of Gateshead Em It was a lazy afternoon Fmaj7 I put the pedal down for southbound C Beneath an early rising moon C And I ended up in Durham Em Standing underneath the rain Fmaj7 Sometimes the whole world is a city C G Where no one knows your name Am There was a gypsy selling papers Fmaj7 She sounded like a mourning dove Am Calling soft and sad and quiet G One part grief and one part love One part love Am One part love G Am Fmaj7 G One part love It was a late night in Newcastle And I made myself a friend We traded cab fare from the hotel Across the Tyne and back again And we stood each other beers Out of the money from the show And then we talked about the job And indie bands and bars back home And with the hotel windows open I slept and woke and slept again And I dreamed they burned a city With a suitcase and a grin And so I stood in Durham City Beneath the castle and the keep And I heard a gypsy woman selling Like one part love and one part grief And my dream came to me waking On the cobbles in the rain Maybe nothing is forever Nothing is in vain One part love One part love One part love -------------------- Dove and the waterline Em G I wrote you a song from under the sky D C Em From the field where the snow fell down And the town threw up its light G Against the clouds into the night D C Em Like a wall to keep the flood from bearing down G D And I said hello, can you help me C Do you know what I'm doing D Em Can you tell me where I'm bound G The stars all have names D And the angels have the same C D Em But I'm lost and I so much want to be found I wrote you a prayer from inside the walls Of my country where the cold wind blows And a storm into the sea Rang out against man's every plea To rouse my soul and steal my body down below And I said hello can you help me Do you know what I'm doing Can you tell me where I'm bound I'm cast away into the deep and compassed there No soul to keep afire and to the water burning down And I said hello, can you help me Do you know what I'm doing Can you tell me where I'm bound The stars all have names And the angels have the same But I'm lost and I want to be found I wrote you a song from under the sky From the field where the snow fell down And the town threw up its light Against the clouds into the night Like a wall to keep the flood from bearing down --------------------------------- Battle Hymn (of the College Dropout Farmhand) Capo I G Em C G Em The humble sky is falling down C G On golden mother May D The sun in shadows rising C Paints the dawning break of day G D And you could ask ten thousand times C How come I left that day G D But the answer won't change your mind C D G And I've got nothing else to say CHORUS D C G Mine eyes have seen the glory Of that ragged flag unfurled Em And I wonder when the light of the last C Honest man passed from this weary world and they say G D Home is where the heart is C My home ain't in this town G D I build walls just to climb them C G Climb them just so you can help me down D Help me down C Help me down G D Hear me oh hear me C These times they grow faint G D C C/B Am And the years spring up new like the Indian paint G D Our dreams they succeed us C Our children we taint G D C D G Pray for my soul the times they grow faint CHORUS ----------------------------------------- Northbound 35 Capo II C G Northbound 35 Am Through the iron hills Fmaj7 Under infidel skies C G It's two hundred miles to drive Am Fmaj7 You won't be home C G I saw an elsebound train Am On the overpass Fmaj7 In the driving rain C G Every ticket costs the same Am Fmaj7 For where you can't go CHORUS: G Fmaj7 C G Mustang horses, champagne glasses Am Fmaj7 C G Anything frail anything wild Fmaj7 It’s the price of living motion C G What's beautiful is broken Am Fmaj7 C G Am Fmaj7 And grace is just the measure of a fall So I rolled into your town I passed the smokestacks And the ore docks down off of Main And the sky spun around With her diamonds on We fought all night and then we danced In your kitchen You were as much in my hands As water or darkness or nothing Can ever be held CHORUS It's just flashes that we own Little snapshots Made of breath and of bone And out on the darkling plain alone They light up the sky It's 51 and driving south Ain't it funny How things'll turn out I never even kissed you on the mouth When we said goodbye CHORUS --------------------