Ghost Writer Chords by Garland Jeffreys

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[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [Em] Oh, I used to [B] stay up [Bb] every night.
[Am] _ [Em] I'll be so [B] all [Am] alone.
_ _ _ [Em] In my hand, [A] my trusted man, [Em] _ I will get to [N] the bone.
[Em] Goes the writer, _ [Am] writer, writer, writer.
[Em] _ Everybody thinks [Am] I'm doing fine.
Goes the [Em] writer, _ [Am] writer, writer.
I'm going to [Em] lay it down the [Am] line.
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[Am] _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _ [G] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [Em] I used to live down [Dm] on Lucklow [A] Street, _ [Em] _ _
[Am] 1964.
_ _ _ [Em] Then I was [Am] so innocent.
_ _ [E] But [Gb] now I'm [Am] the score.
Goes [Eb] the writer, _ [E] _
writer, writer, writer.
_ That's what they call me [F] by [Em] name.
Goes the writer, writer, writer, for fortune and for [Am] fame.
_ _ [G] Oh, now, _ [Am] now.
_ _ Now, [Em] _ now, [Am] now, now.
_ We got [E] Shakespeare, Spencer, [F] Sidney, [E] too.
We all know what they do.
[C] _ _ _ [E] I'm a [Am] poet of a kind.
I [E] know that [A] you are, too.
[E] _ [C] Goes the writer, [Em] _
[Am] writer, writer, writer.
[E] _ [Em] Just trying to make [Am] my way.
_ [Em] Goes the writer, [Am] writer, writer.
I'm [E] going to lay [D] one [Em] down [Am] today.
_ [G] Lay it [Em] down. _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ [C] We [Em] got [A] Chaplin with his [C] funny face, [Am] _ [E] Joe Sonner with his [Am] _ [Em] mask.
_ _ Movie stars all in a race.
_ I'm going to [B] Hollywood at [Em] _ last.
Goes [Bm] the writer, _ [Em]
[Am] writer, _ [Em] _ like a phantom on a [Am] chair.
[Em] Goes the writer, _ [Am] writer, writer.
[G] _ _ Yesterday I paid [Am] back all my _ [Bm] _ [Em] _ _ _
[Am] bills.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ Buffalo down [Am] on Barrow [N] Street.
_ Everybody [B] knows [Am] it's true.
_ [G] _ _ [D] Now [B] I'm [A] standing on [C] my two feet.
[E] _ You're with me and I'm with [Am] you, you, you.
[Em] Goes the writer, _ writer.
_ I'm a New York [Am] citizen.
_ _ Goes [E] the writer, _ writer, [Am] writer.
_ [Em] Just trying to have my [Am] _
fun.
[G] Oh, now, now.
[Am] _
_ _ [Em] Oh, now, now, now, [Am] now.
_ [Em] I've been writing down [B] these old [F] stories [Em] now
for about 18 years or [C] so.
_ _ [Em] _ [Bb] People are [Bm] starting to [A] call me a genius.
[E] I got to tell them [Am] no, no, no, [G] no.
Goes the writer, _ [F] writer. _
Tell [Em] me, what do you [Am] have to do?
[Em] Goes the writer, _ _ [Am] writer, writer, [Em] writer.
Get your story [A] through. _ _
[Am] [Em] Goes the writer, _ _ [Am] _ _
goes [Em] the writer.
_ _ _ [E] _ [C] I'm [A] still the [Em] goes writer.
_ [Am] _ Still [G] the goes writer, writer, writer, writer, writer.
_ Goes the writer, _ _ _ [Bm] _ writer, [Em] _ _ [D] writer, _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Gm] _ [Em] _
writer, _ [Dm] writer.
_ [Gb] Goes [Em] the writer, _ [Am] writer.
_ [D] It's [Em] Eduardo _ [B] _ _ _ [Am] _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [Am] Miguel.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _
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