Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:10:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: David MacCormack 
Subject: s/sting/ghost_story.tab

_Ghost Story_, by Sting, off "Brand New Day" album.
Questions/comments/corrections/etc... welcome, by all means :).

Transcribed and arranged by
David MacCormack (djm at maccormack dot net)
All rights reserved.  Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire
article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.


Intro

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B|-----------------
G|-9---9---9---9---
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* = It sounds like he may actually be doing a slide on the 2nd
string here, but I find it easier to play this way :)

{Repeat Intro for the following verses}

VERSE 1
I watch the western sky...

VERSE 2
I feel the winter come...(flush toilet here)

VERSE 3
The shadows close me round...



Verse 4
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D|--------------------|---------------------|----------------------------
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                                             Verse 5
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                       Play RIFF1
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B|------10---10---9---|------------------|-----10---10---9---------------
G|-11-----------------|-11---9---9---9---|-9-----------------------------
D|--------------------|------------------|-------------------------------
A|--------------------|------------------|-------------------------------
E|--------------------|------------------|-------------------------------

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G|-11---9---9---9---|-9---9---11-------|-11---9---9---9------------------
D|------------------|------------------|---------------------------------
A|------------------|------------------|---------------------------------
E|------------------|------------------|---------------------------------

  Repeat a few times, and fade in RIFF2
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G|-9---9---11-------|-9---9---9---9---
D|------------------|-----------------
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VERSE 4
Another winter comes...

VERSE 5
And all these differences...



BRIDGE

Ok, it gets pretty noisy here...haven't bothered to figure it all out.
Since I'm playing it by myself (and don't want it to sound naked), I'm
jumping into a few chords (given below).  I repeat it for each of the
retorical question verses, through "mast without a sail".

     Esus2             E
What is the force that binds the stars?

  Esus2/A           E/A
I wore this mask to hide my scars

     Esus2             E
What is the power that pulls the tide?

      Esus2/A      E/A
Never could find a place to hide

     Esus2           E
What moves the Earth around the sun?

     Esus2/A        E/A
What could I do but run, and run, and run?

 Esus2           E
Afraid to love, afraid to fail

  Esus2/A        E/A
A mast without a sail




VERSE 6
             F#
The moon's a fingernail, and slowly sinking.

        C#                      D#m
Another day begins, and now I'm thinking.

            B                   C#
That this indifference was my invention.

           D#m                      C#
Since everything I did sought your attention.


Repeat verse 6 for the following:


VESRE 7
Your were my compas star. You were my measurer.
You were a pirate's map of burried treasure.
If this was all correct, the last thing I'd expect.
The prosicution rests, it's time that I confessed,


                  F#sus4 F#
I must have loved you...
{Repeat and fade}






[RIFF1] (triplet on the & of 1)
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B|------------------
G|---8-----8--------
D|-----9-----9------
A|------------------
E|------------------

[RIFF2] (triplets, repeat a few times)
e|------------------
B|-7----------------
G|---9---9---9------
D|-----9---9--------
A|------------------
E|------------------


CHORDS
            E  A  D  G  B  e
            -----------------
Esus2       0  11 9  11 0  0
E           0  11 9  9  0  0
Esus2/A     0  0  9  11 0  0
E/A         0  0  9  9  0  0
F#sus4      2  4  x  4  2  2
F#          2  4  4  3  2  2
C#          4  4  6  6  6  4
D#m         6  6  8  8  7  6
B           2  2  4  4  4  2