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Merle Haggard, Miner's Silver Ghost Tabs
Artist/Band: Haggard Merle Tabs
Song: Miner's Silver Ghost Tab
Miner's Silver Ghost
By Merle Haggard
12/6/2011
Capo 3
Am
Am C
On a cold and rainy night I was sittin' in the light
Am G Am
Of my switchman shack of mine post on the mountain
Am C
The storm was pretty bad and the telephone was dead
Am G Am
But it was just eleven hours till the dawn
C G
Then much to my surprise the telegraph jumped in the light
F Am
As I read the code I thought could this be true
Am C
A train was on its way headed up the mountain grade
Am G Am
But she didn't have no engineer or crew
Capo up 1/2 step to Fret 4 (or leave capo 3 and play Am#, C#, G#, F#)
At the other switch they tried to put her on the mountain side
But she kept on coming up the mountain grade
But I quickly dowse the light to try to see into the night
Maybe I could spot her headlight in the rain
She was poundin' down below I could hear her whistle blow
And I thought Lord that's a high and mournful sound
Then the telegraph again there's a cave in at the mine
And a hundred men are burried neath the ground
Lord, she's coming now I see her round the bend and straight at me
And her boiler is glowin' red as coal in hell
The headlinght switchin' wide searchin' all the mountain side
But the only sound she's making it's a wail
Then I recognized the train by the number and the name
It's the Miners Silver Ghost Old 41
Then she vanished up the track by the lonely switchman shack
Like a mother who was looking for her son
Now I heard the story how an engine went to glory
Over fifty years ago on the same line
It was steaming for the cave in there were men that needed saving
But it missed the curve and trestle near the mine.
And every now and then you'll hear a whistle on the wind
If a mountain slides and many men are lost
It's a high and lonely wail and searching up and down the mountain
It's the train they call the Miners Silver Ghost
The train they call the Miners Silver Ghost
The train they call the Miners Silver Ghost
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