Ghost Runner

By Bloodkin

A A G A C G

I got a ghost runner standing on first base

A A G A C

in this vacant lot in July

A A G A C G

grass growing past our ankles

A A G A C

and the sun's in the middle of the sky

D

we got all summer to play this way

D

all summer to make it real

A A G A C G

and little kids like us just make the rules up

A A G A C

and my ghost runner's trying to steal

A A G A C G

little kids like us just make the rules up

A A G A C

and my ghost runner's trying to steal

Second Verse

Now my ghost runner's standing on second base

and it must be a hundred in the shade

me and my buddy we don't mind sweating it out

we got a cooler full of Gatorade

and we're out of school all summer

and I'm swinging at his lazy curve

it's a single out past the pawpaw trees

and my ghost runner's rounding third

it's a single out past the pawpaw trees

and my ghost runner's rounding third

Third Verse

Yeah my ghost runner's trying to score and now

the sun's already going down

pretty soon me and my buddy we'll both be

moving on out of this town

ghost outfielder hits the ghost cutoff man

ghost cutoff man wheels and throws

we got all summer to play this way

and my ghost runner's safe at home

hey we got all summer to play this way

and my ghost runner's safe at home

we got all summer to play this way

and my ghost runner's safe at home

we got all summer to play this way

and my ghost runner's safe at home

safe at home

from the album “Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise Again”

released February 3, 2009

Lyrics from https://bloodkin.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-runner accessed May 11, 2021

Chords by companion_tothe_wind

Notes

1. These chords are based on the live performance on Aug. 6, 2009, filmed in the P'Nut Gallery at the MoBoogie Loft https://youtu.be/QqMDVdUQT-0 (with Bill McCoy).

2. I’ve been playing it with straight-up bar chords, and it sounds okay, but in the video it looks like they’re using different versions of the chords.

3. There might be a C (or something else) after the D

4. The rhythym I hear is “One and two and three four; one and two and three [rest]”.

5. This is my first time ever trying to work out the chords to a song & post them.