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-- GHOST TRAIN --    Counting Crows
From: Paul Hutchinson

NB The verses of this are a bit harmonically strange in that, like Round
Here and Time and Time Again, the guitar is not playing chords during
the verses, and so the bass carries the song rather a lot. However, I
get the impression that the verses are based on Dm the whole way
through, with the bass guitar playing Ds and Fs (and a G just before
the first verse). This should make the song horribly boring for you if
you're trying to play it by yourself without a bass guitarist, but
them's the breaks.
On the album, the guitar and some other strange instrument are messing
about with the following notes during the verses - listen to the tape
to get a better idea:
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Intro:
|Dm      |Dm Dm/F  |Dm      |Dm Dm/G  |

Dm
I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Across the desert from sea to shining sea
I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation      C/G
Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me

     Fmaj9  Em7  Fmaj9
"How do you do?"
           C/G      Fmaj9  Em7  Fmaj9
She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

Dm
She buys a ticket cause it's cold where she comes from
She climbs aboard because she's scared of getting older in the snow
Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness   C/G
Hold on to me darling I've got nowhere else to        go

     Fmaj9  Em7  Fmaj9
"How do you do?"
           C/G      Fmaj9  Em7  Fmaj9
She said, "Hey, how do you do?" hey...

|Fmaj9  |C/G    |Am     |Am     |
 Yeah.
|Fmaj9  |C/G    |Am     |Am     |
|Fmaj9  |C/G    |Am     |Am     |
|Fmaj9  |C/G    |Am     |Am     |D  G ....

                      Dm
I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves
Love is a ghost train howling on the radio           C/G
"Remember everything." she said, "when only memory remains."

     Fmaj9  Em7  Fmaj9
"How do you do?"
           C/G      Fmaj9  Em7  Fmaj9  C/G
She said, "Hey, how do you do?" 
     Fmaj9  Em7  Fmaj9
"How do you do?"
           C/G      Fmaj9  Em7  Fmaj9
She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

Chords used: Dm  xx0231   C/G 332010   Fmaj9 133010 
             Em7 022030   Am  x02210