Loudon Wainwright III - Ghost blues

^AMy Old ^Edog ^Amisses me ^Eso ^ATo the beach or the ^Edog park, ^B7he don t want to ^Ego No, he ^Alies there ^Ewaiting at the ^Afoot of my ^Ebed Because he ^Aknows I m right ^Ethere even ^B7though I m ^Edead

^AYou late ^Ehusband, ^Athat would be ^Eme I ve been ^Agone so ^Elong I m just a ^B7faint memo^Ery I ve been dis^Aparaged in ^Epassing by your ^Afriends late at ^Enight ^AI blew out the ^Ecandles on em, ^B7it served em ^Eright

The ^Aday that I ^Edied, I ^Aknew I was ^Etoast Next day I was ^Ahanging out with ^B7Marley s ^Eghost ^AHelp this ^Efather, he s a ^Afriend of ^Emine ^B7That old Cain can t keep from crying

At my ^Amemorial ^Eservice there was ^Aquite a turn^Eout ^ASome stayed a^Eway, hey, what was ^B7that all a^Ebout? Tell me, didn t she ^Alove me^E, didn t he ^Acare? Nobody ^Esaw me out ^B7I was right ^Ethere (I was doing a head count)

Now I m ^Aout of the ^Epicture, yeah, I m ^Aoff of the ^Ehook Just a ^Achuck of ^Etime, that was ^B7all that it ^Etook Was it a ^Ashot from a ^Egun, a ^Aslip of a ^Eknife? ^AI don t know what ^Ekilled me, Lord, it ^B7might have been ^Elife

I ^Ahad a few ^Echildren,^A wrote a few ^Esongs I got ^Asome of it ^Eright and a ^B7lot of it ^Ewrong I ^Abought a few ^Ehouses, a few ^Aboats, a few ^Ecars ^B7Being a ghost you might as well be on Mars

^ABeing a ^Eghost is, ^Ayou re just in be^Etween ^AEach and ^Eevery day of the year is ^B7Hallo^Eween, yeah You re ^Ahanging a^Eround but you re not ^Areally ^Ethere You re ^Ahovering ^Eover your own ^B7old easy c^Ehair

Lord, I was ^Ahoping for ^Eheaven, that ^Awould ve been ^Eswell Cause ^Abeing a ^Eghost, Lord, it s just like ^B7being in ^Ehell You re ^Ahungry and you re ^Etired and you ^Acan t get no ^Erest An though I d ^Asettle for ^Eheaven, o^B7blivion would be ^Ebest

I ve been ^Aflying a^Eround ^Arattling ^Echains Appearing in ^Amirrors just to ^B7make you in^Esane Making those ^Anoises in your ^Ehouse late at night, yeah ^B7I got to haunt you even though it ain t right

^AMy Old ^Edog ^Amisses me ^Eso ^ATo the beach or the ^Edog park, ^B7he don t want to ^Ego No, he ^Alies there ^Ewaiting at the ^Afoot of my ^Ebed Because he ^Aknows I m right ^Ethere even ^B7though I m ^Edead . . .