Chords for The Ghost of Bleak House by Tom Chapin
Tempo:
99 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
F#
Am
A#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E] [C] [E]
It sits at the edge of town, all pretty and tumbledown.
An [Em] empty house, a scary house, a truly haunted and horrible house.
[E] They say there's a ghost within, [Am] a [E] screamer with purple skin,
who [A] bangs and booms and [Am] roams the rooms in a frenzy.
And I am the ghost of [A] Bleak House.
[B]
[F] [E] I've lived [A] alone [Am] in Bleak House two hundred and twenty-five years.
[B] Alone amid the [Am]
cobwebs and dusty [E] chandeliers.
[D#] Wait a minute, [Am] what's this?
A moving [E] van's coming up the drive, a [Am] family full of kids arrive.
They're [G] getting out, they're [C] coming in, [Em] unpacking cartons and [Am] furniture.
This house [E] is my private [Am] space, I'm not going to share the place.
I'll howl and [G] moan and clank and [A#] groan in a frenzy
and scare them away from [A] Bleak House.
Grrrr!
[F#] [A] Leave this house at once!
[Bm] Oh dear, the piano's playing all [A] by itself!
Get out!
Get out!
[Bm] Get out, you [E] kids!
[A] Don't just stand [F#] there in the hall!
Butch, did you see it?
Yeah, you see it, Billy?
Yeah!
[A#] What was [F#] it?
A ghost?
A ghoul?
[D] Whatever it was, [F#] it's cool!
[A#] Then search the house [A] and track it down
this [F#] terrific, incredible ghost of Bleak House.
[A#]
[E] Go look in the attic [A#m] tower.
Baby Gale, you check out the basement.
Okay.
[A#] Oh, and Baby Gale?
What?
Be careful.
Okay.
[F]
[A#] [D#] [C] Gee, it's dark [A#] down here.
[G]
Hello?
[A#] Ghost?
[F#] Where [E] are [D] you?
[C#]
[F#] Leave this house!
But why?
This is my house!
It's our house, too!
I've lived [Bm] alone in Bleak House 225 years.
I'm not about to stand [Em] for a herd [F#] of [D] mouseteers.
Bleak [G] House has so many rooms, you [A] can't live everywhere.
If you're [A] 225, you're old enough [F#] to share.
Share?
You want me to share?
[C] Ghosts don't [F#m] share!
You're [G] a very cranky [A] ghost, you need some company.
[D] And [G] luckily, you've now got Butch [D] and Billy and Ben and me.
Who?
Hey, [C#] guys!
[E] [D#m] [B] Alright!
Awesome!
[F#] I'm Billy!
And [B] I'm Ben!
Yo, I'm Butch, who are you?
[E] I am the [C#] late Josiah [E] Bleak!
So how about a game [F#] of hide and seek?
[B] Hide and seek?
Not it!
Not it!
You're it, Bleaky!
But
what
but
You have to start counting.
Oh
[E]
One Two
It sits [B] at the edge of [E] town.
We've painted it pink and brown.
And night or day, we get to play with our very [B] own personal ghost of Bleak House.
98
99
100
Ready or not, here I come!
[E]
It sits at the edge of town, all pretty and tumbledown.
An [Em] empty house, a scary house, a truly haunted and horrible house.
[E] They say there's a ghost within, [Am] a [E] screamer with purple skin,
who [A] bangs and booms and [Am] roams the rooms in a frenzy.
And I am the ghost of [A] Bleak House.
[B]
[F] [E] I've lived [A] alone [Am] in Bleak House two hundred and twenty-five years.
[B] Alone amid the [Am]
cobwebs and dusty [E] chandeliers.
[D#] Wait a minute, [Am] what's this?
A moving [E] van's coming up the drive, a [Am] family full of kids arrive.
They're [G] getting out, they're [C] coming in, [Em] unpacking cartons and [Am] furniture.
This house [E] is my private [Am] space, I'm not going to share the place.
I'll howl and [G] moan and clank and [A#] groan in a frenzy
and scare them away from [A] Bleak House.
Grrrr!
[F#] [A] Leave this house at once!
[Bm] Oh dear, the piano's playing all [A] by itself!
Get out!
Get out!
[Bm] Get out, you [E] kids!
[A] Don't just stand [F#] there in the hall!
Butch, did you see it?
Yeah, you see it, Billy?
Yeah!
[A#] What was [F#] it?
A ghost?
A ghoul?
[D] Whatever it was, [F#] it's cool!
[A#] Then search the house [A] and track it down
this [F#] terrific, incredible ghost of Bleak House.
[A#]
[E] Go look in the attic [A#m] tower.
Baby Gale, you check out the basement.
Okay.
[A#] Oh, and Baby Gale?
What?
Be careful.
Okay.
[F]
[A#] [D#] [C] Gee, it's dark [A#] down here.
[G]
Hello?
[A#] Ghost?
[F#] Where [E] are [D] you?
[C#]
[F#] Leave this house!
But why?
This is my house!
It's our house, too!
I've lived [Bm] alone in Bleak House 225 years.
I'm not about to stand [Em] for a herd [F#] of [D] mouseteers.
Bleak [G] House has so many rooms, you [A] can't live everywhere.
If you're [A] 225, you're old enough [F#] to share.
Share?
You want me to share?
[C] Ghosts don't [F#m] share!
You're [G] a very cranky [A] ghost, you need some company.
[D] And [G] luckily, you've now got Butch [D] and Billy and Ben and me.
Who?
Hey, [C#] guys!
[E] [D#m] [B] Alright!
Awesome!
[F#] I'm Billy!
And [B] I'm Ben!
Yo, I'm Butch, who are you?
[E] I am the [C#] late Josiah [E] Bleak!
So how about a game [F#] of hide and seek?
[B] Hide and seek?
Not it!
Not it!
You're it, Bleaky!
But
what
but
You have to start counting.
Oh
[E]
One Two
It sits [B] at the edge of [E] town.
We've painted it pink and brown.
And night or day, we get to play with our very [B] own personal ghost of Bleak House.
98
99
100
Ready or not, here I come!
[E]
Key:
E
A
F#
Am
A#
E
A
F#
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ _ [E] _
It sits at the edge of town, all pretty and tumbledown.
An [Em] empty house, a scary house, a truly haunted and horrible house.
[E] They say there's a ghost within, [Am] a [E] screamer with purple skin,
who [A] bangs and booms and [Am] roams the rooms in a frenzy.
And I am the ghost of [A] Bleak House.
_ [B] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [E] I've lived [A] alone [Am] in Bleak House two hundred and twenty-five years.
[B] Alone amid the [Am]
cobwebs and dusty [E] chandeliers.
[D#] Wait a minute, [Am] what's this?
A moving [E] van's coming up the drive, a [Am] family full of kids arrive.
They're [G] getting out, they're [C] coming in, [Em] unpacking cartons and [Am] furniture.
This house [E] is my private [Am] space, I'm not going to share the place.
I'll howl and [G] moan and clank and [A#] groan in a frenzy
and scare them away from [A] Bleak House.
_ _ Grrrr!
[F#] _ _ _ [A] Leave this house at once!
_ [Bm] Oh dear, the piano's playing all [A] by itself!
Get out!
Get out!
[Bm] Get out, you [E] kids!
[A] Don't just stand [F#] there in the hall!
Butch, did you see it?
Yeah, you see it, Billy?
Yeah!
[A#] What was [F#] it?
A ghost?
A ghoul?
[D] Whatever it was, [F#] it's cool!
[A#] Then search the house [A] and track it down
this [F#] terrific, incredible ghost of Bleak House.
[A#] _ _ _
_ [E] _ Go look in the attic [A#m] tower.
Baby Gale, you check out the basement.
Okay.
[A#] Oh, and Baby Gale?
What?
Be careful.
Okay.
_ [F] _ _ _
[A#] _ [D#] _ [C] Gee, it's dark [A#] down here.
[G]
Hello?
[A#] _ _ Ghost? _ _ _
[F#] _ Where [E] are [D] you?
_ [C#] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ Leave this house!
But why?
This is my house!
It's our house, too!
I've lived [Bm] alone in Bleak House 225 years.
I'm not about to stand [Em] for a herd [F#] of [D] mouseteers.
Bleak [G] House has so many rooms, you [A] can't live everywhere.
If you're _ [A] 225, you're old enough [F#] to share.
Share?
You want me to share?
[C] Ghosts don't [F#m] share!
You're [G] a very cranky [A] ghost, you need some company.
[D] And [G] luckily, you've now got Butch [D] and Billy and Ben and me.
Who?
Hey, [C#] guys!
_ [E] _ _ [D#m] _ [B] Alright!
Awesome!
[F#] I'm Billy!
And [B] I'm Ben!
Yo, I'm Butch, who are you?
[E] I am the [C#] late Josiah [E] Bleak!
So how about a game [F#] of hide and seek?
[B] Hide and seek?
Not it!
Not it!
_ You're it, Bleaky!
But_
what_
but_
You have to start counting.
Oh_
[E] _
One_ Two_
It sits [B] at the edge of [E] town.
We've painted it pink and brown.
And night or day, we get to play with our very [B] own personal ghost of Bleak House.
_ _ 98_
99_
100_
Ready or not, here I come!
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It sits at the edge of town, all pretty and tumbledown.
An [Em] empty house, a scary house, a truly haunted and horrible house.
[E] They say there's a ghost within, [Am] a [E] screamer with purple skin,
who [A] bangs and booms and [Am] roams the rooms in a frenzy.
And I am the ghost of [A] Bleak House.
_ [B] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [E] I've lived [A] alone [Am] in Bleak House two hundred and twenty-five years.
[B] Alone amid the [Am]
cobwebs and dusty [E] chandeliers.
[D#] Wait a minute, [Am] what's this?
A moving [E] van's coming up the drive, a [Am] family full of kids arrive.
They're [G] getting out, they're [C] coming in, [Em] unpacking cartons and [Am] furniture.
This house [E] is my private [Am] space, I'm not going to share the place.
I'll howl and [G] moan and clank and [A#] groan in a frenzy
and scare them away from [A] Bleak House.
_ _ Grrrr!
[F#] _ _ _ [A] Leave this house at once!
_ [Bm] Oh dear, the piano's playing all [A] by itself!
Get out!
Get out!
[Bm] Get out, you [E] kids!
[A] Don't just stand [F#] there in the hall!
Butch, did you see it?
Yeah, you see it, Billy?
Yeah!
[A#] What was [F#] it?
A ghost?
A ghoul?
[D] Whatever it was, [F#] it's cool!
[A#] Then search the house [A] and track it down
this [F#] terrific, incredible ghost of Bleak House.
[A#] _ _ _
_ [E] _ Go look in the attic [A#m] tower.
Baby Gale, you check out the basement.
Okay.
[A#] Oh, and Baby Gale?
What?
Be careful.
Okay.
_ [F] _ _ _
[A#] _ [D#] _ [C] Gee, it's dark [A#] down here.
[G]
Hello?
[A#] _ _ Ghost? _ _ _
[F#] _ Where [E] are [D] you?
_ [C#] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ Leave this house!
But why?
This is my house!
It's our house, too!
I've lived [Bm] alone in Bleak House 225 years.
I'm not about to stand [Em] for a herd [F#] of [D] mouseteers.
Bleak [G] House has so many rooms, you [A] can't live everywhere.
If you're _ [A] 225, you're old enough [F#] to share.
Share?
You want me to share?
[C] Ghosts don't [F#m] share!
You're [G] a very cranky [A] ghost, you need some company.
[D] And [G] luckily, you've now got Butch [D] and Billy and Ben and me.
Who?
Hey, [C#] guys!
_ [E] _ _ [D#m] _ [B] Alright!
Awesome!
[F#] I'm Billy!
And [B] I'm Ben!
Yo, I'm Butch, who are you?
[E] I am the [C#] late Josiah [E] Bleak!
So how about a game [F#] of hide and seek?
[B] Hide and seek?
Not it!
Not it!
_ You're it, Bleaky!
But_
what_
but_
You have to start counting.
Oh_
[E] _
One_ Two_
It sits [B] at the edge of [E] town.
We've painted it pink and brown.
And night or day, we get to play with our very [B] own personal ghost of Bleak House.
_ _ 98_
99_
100_
Ready or not, here I come!
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _