Chords for Ellis Paul - Conversation with a Ghost

[G#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ Well, I'm going [G#] to tell you a ghost story while I'm playing this, if it's [C#] alright.
_ [G#] I was out running with a guy named Vance Gilbert in [C#] Boston.
He's one of my best friends and he invited me to a little [F#] party [G#] afterwards. _ _
[C#] And we went there and [G#] his girlfriend was cutting carrots [C#] into the kitchen sink and I said,
Margaret, what are you [F#] doing?
How you [G#] been?
And she said, well, you won't believe this, [C#] but I bought this [G#] Ouija board at a garage
[F#] sale [C#] and I've been on it like your people are on [F#] the internet [C#] for hours and hours a
day.
And I said, I don't believe you.
[G#] I said, tell me, tell me about the [C#] ghost you're talking to.
And she said, well, it's a ghost named Pug.
_ [G#] _ [C#] And Pug was named Margaret Putnam.
That was her [G#] real name.
Her nickname was Pug and she was a [F#] nurse during [C#] the Civil War.
And I [F#] said, why don't we [C#] pull this board out and see what's happening?
Because I'm not really buying into this.
[G#m] So we [G#] pull it out in the living room and there are [C#] about 15 of us sitting around and I ask
the board the questions and Margaret was on one side and her friend [G#] Beth was on another. _
And I said, [C#] okay, tell me what was the last song I did at my [F#] last show and neither of
the women were there.
[C#] And the board spelled out [G#] R-A-I [C#]-N, rain.
_ And sure enough, [F#] the last song I had done the night before [C#] was a song called Let It Rain.
But you know, if you're going to guess [G#] a word in a song, rain might [C#] be the word you guess.
So I wasn't [F#] too flabbergasted by [G#] the whole thing.
And I said, okay, well, [C#] who's the woman that booked that show?
[G#] And it spelled [C#] out the word Jermaine.
_ And sure enough, Sarah Jermaine was the person that booked that show, but her name was [G#] misspelled.
There was an I in Jermaine and [C#] Ouija boards don't come with spell check or anything.
So [B] there's no way [C#] to know that, but it was still a little bit weird.
And [G#] then I said, okay, _ _ [C#] what did I have to [F#] drink right before [C#] I came here?
And the board spelled out N [G#]-O-G.
And sure enough, it was [C#] December and I had had some eggnog [G#] before I came to the party.
And so I got [C#] up and I ran into [G#] the bathroom and I locked the door. _
_ [C#] _ I came out and I said, well, my girlfriend's sister had just passed away.
And I said, is Alison there?
[G#] And the board said, yes.
[F#] _ [C#] _ And then I said, does she [G#] have any message for [C#] us?
And then the board went to the word love.
_ [G#] Now that's how the story ends and [C#] the song begins.
But the story continues.
Five [G#] years later, [C#]
I was playing in Boston at [G#] a folk club [C#] that was also a community theater
and [F#] an antique shop.
[C#] Most folk clubs do multiple tasking in order [G#] to make it through.
_ [C#] And I looked to my left and there were [G#] three books that said Boston, [C#] _ 1864, Boston, [G#] 1865,
Boston, [C#] 1866.
And I [F#] realized it was a [G#] directory of [C#] the city of Boston, like a phone book, but it was from the 1860s.
And I thought, well, maybe [G#] I could find [C#] out if Margaret Putnam is in there.
So I went to the Pease _ _ and [G#] I couldn't find her.
And then I remembered that they had told me that she was [F#] married to [C#] a doctor and that
they lived on Beacon Street.
[G#] So I scrolled down [C#] and there it was, [G#] Dr.
Putnam on Beacon Street, [C#] 1865.
_ _ _ [G#] _ [C#] Anyway, that's the story.
And here's the song.
[G#] _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _
I'll [C#] respond to you [F#] in letters. _
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ I'm sorry so slow.
Sorry [G#] so few.
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
In a nutshell, [G#] I'm much better. _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
So far the complaints I hear [G#] are few. _
_ [C#] They're few.
_ [F#] So how have you been?
[B] Have you been to the races?
[F#] Did you take my mother as [B] your sister embraces?
[F#] Wish I could have been [A#m] there [D#m] to see [G#m] you through. _
_ [D#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ [B] Hear all those things [D#] you told me [G#] once still true.
[C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ Do you remember that time?
It was cold and apart.
[G#] You're running race [F#] I was there [C#] on [G#] luck who would have [C#] thought that new
_ [Fm] _ [G#] could _ [F#] [C#] be such a small [F#] town how have you been [B] you've been to the races [F#] did you
take my mother is [B] your sister embraces [F#] wish I could have been [D#m] there to [G#m] see it _ _
_ [D#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#] [B] here all those things [F#] told me [G#] once still [C#] true _ now _ _ [G#] _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ Margaret's tired [C#] let's let her
get some sleep [G#] she's bored with these [C#] letters let it
counter _ [G#] she's [C#] good bye _ good _ [G#] _ bye
[C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] love how have you been [B] have you been to the races [F#] did you take my mother [B] is your
sister embraces [F#] wish I could have [C] been there to [G#m] see through you [D#m] _ _ [G#] _ [F#] know all those
things you told me [B] once _ are _ _ they true _ [G#] still _ _ _ [F#] true _
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