The Wrong Train Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays491

The Wrong Train by Ghost Mice is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, G, Fsus4, F and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Am 
You howled like a wolf 
G 
You howled like a child 
    Fsus4                        F 
You howled like a ghost from the grave 
Am 
I get to your closet door,  
G 
You where in there on the floor 
        Fsus4                  F 
I said "open up" and you said "go away!" 

        G               F 
And you howled, and you howled 
    G                F 
You howled all night long 
Fsus4 
I pretended not to hear you 
         F             C 
I didn't know what was wrong!  

Am 
When the next day came, well,  
G 
You were on your way 
Fsus4 
You didn't take much,  
F 
Just a couple of things 
Am 
And you didn't leave a note,  
G 
But I knew you had to go 
Fsus4                         F 
You had to go and try to find anything. 
         G                       F 
I just wish and I hope you'll be OK 
       G                         F 
I just wish and I hope you'll be OK 
      Fsus4                   F               C 
And I knew that you'd be back here again one day. 

        Am 
I got a call from the hospital 
G                             Fsus4        F 
They said you broke your arm hopping off a train 
           Am                                       G 
You hadn't made it very far before you ran into bad luck 
       Fsus4                               F 
So I borrowed a car, I came and picked you up 
G                                    F 
I brought you home, I brought you home 
G                                   F 
I brought you home, I brought you home 
Fsus4                                        F 
With bruises on your face, that cast on your arm,  
C 
And a cut across your nose. 
                   Am                         G 
You said, "let me explain, I was on the wrong train 
                      Fsus4            F 
It was going the wrong way so I jumped off." 
Am 
And I said, "that's insane,  
                G 
You could have died out there that day 
                      Fsus4          F 
Why wouldn't you just wait until it stopped?" 

         G              F 
And you howled, and you howled 
       G                         F 
Out in that cold field where you laid 
         Fsus4        F 
You said what could I do,  
C 
I was on the wrong train 
Am 
So you made it to your feet,  
                        G 
You walked along those barren trees 
                    Fsus4                     F 
You followed power lines until you found the road. 
               Am 
And the first car that came by,  
           G 
They saw you and they stopped 
                Fsus4                     F 
It was a rabbit hunter and his friend the cop. 

    G                F      G        F 
And they dropped you off outside the hospital 
Fsus4 
They gave you pills for the pain, 
F  
They put that cast for your arm 
C 
But the howling never stopped. 
              Fsus4           F 
Because that wasn't what was wrong 
        Am                F 
No that wasn't what was wrong,  
         Fsus4          Am                G 
No that wasn't what was wrong with you at all. 

F 
    	

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100 BPM Andante