Tom: Bm
Am
E|1|-----------------0----|
B|2|-----------------1----|
G|3|-----------------2----|
D|4|-----------------2----|
A|5|-3--2--0------0--0----|
E|6|----------3------0----|
Am
Well, he sat down right in front of me, and I said
C G Am
It looks like you got a story to tell
Am
He offered up a friendly smile
C G Am
Said I'm just a ghost rider on this train
F
So I pressed him just a little bit harder
G Am
There's got to be more to it than that
Am
He said, son I was there in '45
C
When my mother was burned
G Am
And my sister was shot in the back
F C
It had started with a rumor
G Am
Then it happened fast
F C
We're shuffled into box cars
G Am
And rolled on down the track
F C
There was nothing we could do
G Am
Just roll across the plains
F G
We were all just ghost riders
Am
Ghost riders on the train
Am
When he turned to watch the fields roll by
C G
I saw a single tear
Am
Reflect off the glass
Am
And for a while he disappeared
C G
To a distant rainy night
Am
Then he came right back
F
I didn't know what to say or do
G Am
But he pressed on, there's more to it than that
Am
I can still feel the cuts from the barbed-wire fence
C G
Taste the taste of fear
Am
And smell the smell of the rats
F C
It had started with a rumor
G Am
Then it happened fast
F C
We're shuffled into box cars
G Am
And rolled on down the track
F C
There was nothing we could do
G Am
Just roll across the plains
F G
We were all just ghost riders
Am
Ghost riders on the train
( C G F )
( F C G F Am )
( C G F )
( F C G F Am )
Am
When I stood with him outside the gates
C G
Some three hundred-fifty miles southeast of
Am
Berlin
Am
A wicked wind blew from the west
C G Am
And a chill rippled up under my skin
F
He closed his eyes and asked dear God
G Am
What the hell was the sense of all of this
Am
Was it all part of your grand design
C G
Or just a speck in time
Am
Something that you missed
F C
It had started with a rumor
G Am
Then it happened fast
F C
Were shuffled into box cars
G Am
And rolled on down the track
F C
There was nothing we could do
G Am
Just roll across the plains
F G
We were all just ghost riders
Am
Ghost riders on the train
F G
We were all just ghost riders
Am
Ghost riders on the train
[Final] C G F
F C G F Am
C G F
F C G F Am
