Chords for Justin Townes Earle - The Ghost Of Virginia

_ Alright, _ _ _ _ before we launch the count song, we'll give it a count.
Y'all ready?
[Bm] 1, 2, 1, 2, 3.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
Well she comes out at night with cold winds of December
And when [G] it's quiet you hear engines [D] crawl _
She blows smoke at her wheels and her gears crowned with steel
As they carry her on down the line
Now she's heard stories as most of us [G] have
In the lunch counter and [D] barbershop peers
She's the ghost of Virginia and from Raleigh up to Richmond
She runs by the wild and blue _ _ _
_ Well, _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
a few years back on the old Suffolk road
[G] Where crossings were abandoned [D] real live
Well, my grandpa's main name seemed a freight train
And [E] she was mostly [D] streamlined
_ She was cold, black and steel and she screamed as she cut [G] her way clear of [D] the pine
And he swears to this day you can feel the earth shake
And smell her smoke [B] with her whims just right _ _
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_ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _ Probably back in the day she was a real working horse
[G] Hauling coal after old man war
_ She was tied up in ribbons and set out to Richmond
And hauling [B] soldiers during [D] the war
All of some say she reckons she rides these rails
[G] Oh, come on, man, I see you [D] get it right _ _
Others say she roams out picking up lost souls
And carrying them down the carol wire in the rain _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
Yes, it would be rather out on the old Suffolk road
[G] And you'd see this [D] strangest of sights _
She's a ghost of Virginia bound and rightly up to Richmond
And he best stay out of her line
He best stay out of her _ line Yeah
_ _ [E] _ _ Thank you [N] now _ _ _ _ _ _ _