Chasing Ghosts Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays424

Chasing Ghosts by The Crow and the Canary is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Em and D/F#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			G               C                G     C 
Merciless winter, shield me from cold 
G               C             G        C 
Weary in springtime, left me alone 
G             C                G        C 
Dying ain't easy, when you're alone 
Em   C                    G             D/F# 
Oooooh they know where to go 

Em                           C                     G      D/F# 
I don't need you holding me down, I don't need you now 
Em                           C                     G      D/F# 
Bury my heart in the ground, heart in the ground 
Em                           C                     G      D/F# 
The sound of your fear is too loud, I won't hear the sound 
Em                           C                     G      C    G    C 
I don't need you holding me down, I don't need you now 

G               C                G     C 
Holding onto shadows, chasing ghosts 
G               C                G     C 
Left not that certain, just two weeks ago 
G               C                G     C 
Dying ain't easy, when you're alone 
Em   C                    G             D/F# 
Oooooh they know where to go 

Em                           C                     G      D/F# 
I don't need you holding me down, I don't need you now 
Em                           C                     G      D/F# 
Bury my heart in the ground, heart in the ground 
Em                           C                     G      D/F# 
The sound of your fear is too loud, I won't hear the sound 
Em                           C                     Em 
I don't need you holding me down, I don't need you now 

                  C                     G 
I don't need you now, I don't need you now 
                  D/F#                       
I don't need you now, I don't need you now 
Em                    C 
Way, fall away, fall away, fall away, fall a- / I don't need you now, I don't need you now 
G                     D/F# 
Way, fall away, fall away, fall away, fall a-/ I don't need you now, I don't need you now 
Em                    C                    G                      D/F# 
Way, fall away, fall away, fall away, fall away, fall away, fall away 
Em      C       G         D/F# 
Ooooooh Ooooooh Ooooooooh  
Em      C       G         D/F# 
Ooooooh Ooooooh Ooooooooh  

N.c.                         C                     G      D/F# 
I don't need you holding me down, I don't need you now 
Em                           C                     G      D/F# 
Bury my heart in the ground, heart in the ground 
Em                           C                     G      D/F# 
The sound of your fear is too loud, I won't hear the sound 
Em                           C                     G      C   G   C 
I don't need you holding me down, I don't need you now 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante