BUSH - "headful of ghosts" Tablature

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Artist: Bush
Song: "Headful of Ghosts"
Album: Golden State (2001)
Transcribed by: Joe (Superjoe45@yahoo.com)
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| NOTE: this may not be 100% accurate, but it's pretty close, |
| either way it gives you a starting point. |
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... by the way, there are some small riffs throughtout the song
that are only played once... it would take me a really long time
to figure them all out, but here's the gist of it (ending riff
is same notes as in the chorus).


Intro Riff:
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|-10-10-9--10-10-9--10-10-9--10-10-9--10-10-9--10-10-| 2
D|-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-| X
A|-8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--|
E|----------------------------------------------------|

(Intro is played throughout this part)
Riff A: (many times they'll play the F also an octave higher)
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------5------7---------------3-----|
D|-3---------------5------7---------------3-----|
A|-3---------------3------5---------------1-----|
E|-1--------------------------------------------|

e|-17-18-17-13-----18-13--17-18-17-13-----18-13-|
B|-------------13---------------------13--------|

Chorus Riff:
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-10-9-7-9h10-|
D|-------------|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|

A C
e|-----|
B|-----|
G|---5-|
D|-7-5-|
A|-7-3-|
E|-5---|

A C

Verse 1:
A
I stand around at American weddings
C
I stand around for family
A
At my best when I'm terrorist inside
C
At my best when it's all me
A
I was there when you took all the people
C
I was alone in a mental ravine
A
You breathe life when you break the walls down
C
You breathe life when you set me free

Chorus:
F C
Where is my head, where are my bones
D A#
Why are my days so far from home
F C
Where is my head Where are my bones
D A#
Can you save me from myself, can you save me from myself

C A

Verse 2:
C
Free thinking, renegade social
A
Mr Moon man now
C
Out the slipstream of my possibilities
A
got the boat so we don't drown
C
These are the days that I'm split down the middle
A
No words to calm me down
C
Be sure that what you dream of
A
won't come to hunt you out

Chorus:
F C
Where is my head, where are my bones
D A#
Why are my days so far from home, ghostman
F C
Where is my head, where are my bones
D A#
How come we get so lost, ghostman
F C
Where is my head where are my bones
D A#
Can you save me from myself, can you save me from myself

A G# A
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-7-7-7--6-7--7-7-|
A|-7-7-7--6-7--7-7-|
E|-5-5-5--4-5--5-5-|

F A (2nd guitar simultaniously plays chords octave higher)
e|-----|
B|-----|
G|-----|
D|-3-7-|
A|-3-7-|
E|-1-5-|

A G#/A

F A

A
I stand around at American weddings
A
I stand around for family
A
At my best when I'm terrorist inside
A
At my best when it's all me

Chorus:
F C D A#
Ghostman, how come we get so lost, Ghostman
F C
Where is my head, where are my bones
D A#
Can you save me from myself, can you save me from myself
F C
Where is my head, where are my bones
D A#
Can you save me from myself,

F C
Where is my head, where are my bones
D
Where is my head, where are my bones

Where is my head, where are my bones

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