Misc Musicals – Ghost Quartet - The Camera Shop (Guitar)

      Am6                 Am6/C      Am6        Am6/F#   Am6
This store has been in my family for four generations

                       Am6/C        Am6                  Am6/F#  Am6/E
See that fiddle on the wall? It belonged to my great-grandmother

             D9
Her name was Rose

Am6  Am6/C                Am6           Am6/F#  Am6  Am/B
Old-fashioned, you don't hear it a lot anymore

                                   Am6
The colour is so light, what's it made of?

Am6/F#         D9
An old breastbone

C9
(Creepy)

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It was the breastbone of her sister

     E9       D9    G#7
Her name was Pearl

                  C#m  C#7
I'll tell you the story

F#m      F#m/A  C#m
Rose and Pearl lived by the sea

F#m        F#/A       C#m  C#
Gathering salt in the moonlight

     F#m          F#m/A   C#m
And Rose loved a man who lived in the trees

F#m              F#m/A          C#m                 C#7
Rose cried to Pearl, "Hold me tight, hold me tight"

Bm    G#dim7       E7
Rose went to his treehouse

      A     E7           A
And looked at the stars through his telescope

     Bm        G#dim7   E7
She wanted to hold his hand

        A            E7   A                E7
So she wrote him a poem, signed it and sealed it

     A           E7
In a rice-paper envelope

       D            A
With a lily for a stamp

         F#m  F#m/A    C#m
But the man stole her work

F#m          F#m/A      C#m                   C#7
He was the editor of a prestigious astronomy journal

    F#m        F#m/A   C#m
He wrote down all she saw

F#m              F#m/A   C#m
And published it in his name

    Bm              E7
And Rose grew to hate him

     A     C#7/G#     F#6
And Pearl caught his eye

F#m6               F#m6/A     F#m6              F#6/D#
I'm a little confused, and more than a little frightened

F#m6         F#m6/A  F#m6              B9
It's okay my dear, this is a circular story

        Em   D7/F#        Em/G
And so Rose ran into the forest and

Am              Em/B   C7       G
Asked a great bear to maul the astronomer

        Am             F#dim    D#dim
And to turn the cruel sister into a black

Em                  Am             F#dim   D#dim   Em
Crow, and put the corpse and the crow in a cave

         G#dim7               Am
Til the crow started to starve,

     F#dim7        Em/G            Em
And she'd have no choice but to peck

         D/F#         D7        G
Out the eyes of her lover and eat them!

G/F              C/E
I don't believe any of this

Cm6/Eb       D7
Don't you remember? The bear named his price

Dm9
One pot of honey

Dm9
One piece of stardust

Dm9
One secret baptism

Dm9
And a photo of a ghost

Dm9
One pot of honey

Dm9
One piece of stardust

Dm9
One secret baptism

                       F#dim7
And a photo of a ghost

Am6/F#          E7/G#        Am6           E7/G#      Am6/F#
Rose stole the honey from a soldier she pretended to love

        E7/G#             Am6           E7/G#      D9
Stole stardust from an ancient, she pretended to care

              C9                  Fm             C7/E
And for the baptism, she stole a baby from its mother

   Ab/Eb                    Db
A frightened teenager in a mansion

              Gb             F6
And took the child into the sea

          Eb6         D6
And the child was blessed