Chords for The Phantom of the Opry

_ I'm the Phantom, _ _ the Phantom _ _ _ [C] of the Opry.
I've [F] been here since [C] 75, [C] _
down in the basement of this old [Am] Opry [F] house, where I choose to [C] reside. _
_ [Am] 75 was a time [G] my kind of style began to slide, [F] and really started taking a dive.
_ [C] Since that year, [Am] I've been living down here, [F] shut away from the [C] world outside.
_ _ _ They [Am] haven't had a show upstairs _ since [E] _ _
[Am] 1974.
_ _ But now that they started making noise again, I [E] heard them poking around the [Am] upper floor.
_ [F] Some snoopy kids, or I know some of us kids, [C] could discover my secret [Am] life.
_ [F] I'm the Phantom _ [C] of the Opry.
_ [F] Folks are [G] scared to come [Am] around here at night. _ _ _ _ _
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I'm the Phantom _ [C] of the Opry.
I [F] don't listen to the bugs and [C] the mice. _
The only sound that I hear is [Am] the music sweet and clear, [F] the way they played it here on [C] Saturday nights. _
[Am] Was it that long ago I [G] played my first Opry show, hung [F] around with Hank Snow and the like?
[C] Now I'm a Phantom of [Am] this Opry, _ _ [F] like some ghost from [C] another life. _
_ _ _ _ [Am] Last night I had a dream [C] they discovered me, [F] just like some episode from [C] Scooby-Doo.
_ I said if it wasn't for those [A] meddling [Am] kids and their dog, [F] why, I'd have probably gotten away with [C] it too.
And [Am] I awoke from the dream and [G] things just weren't what they seemed.
[F] Is this some scene that I created in my mind?
_ [C] Am I the Phantom [Am] of the Opry?
_ _ [F] Just a relic [C] from another time? _ _ _ _
[A] Am [Am] I the Phantom _ _ _ [C] of the Opry?
_ _ [G] Has [F] it been _ [Am] such [G] a long, _ [Eb] long _ _ _ _ [G] time?
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