Misc Musicals – Ghost Quartet - Usher Part 1 (Guitar)

      Bm    F#7/A#     D/A     G#dim7      G         D/F#             Fdim7  Em7
On a dull, dark and soundless day, in the autumn of eighteen seventy three

      Bm    C#dim7
My wife and I

D          Em7         Bm/F#  F#7    G  Gm
sat at the bed of our only daughter Roxie

      Gm    A7          Ab      Gm
The bleak walls, the decaying trees

               A7            Dm
The utter depression of the soul

     Ebm     Am       C#m     Gm
The bitter ghost of everyday life

     D7/F#              Gm
The icy sinking of the heart

      F#dim7    Gm       F#dim7     Gm
For seventeen years, our Roxie had danced

Ebm                     Gm
Danced on the edge of a star (so beautiful)

    Bm6                Gm6             C#7/E#
But now following the loss of her own child

   C7 Cm6/E          Em(maj9)
A sickness has taken over

Em(maj9)
Her child was stolen, and she blames herself

       Am
She is wasting away, her liquid eyes, her thin lips, her pale skin

               Em(maj9)
Her spiderweb hair

Cm6                       Em9
Floating in front of her face

Em9
Little girl, little girl, where's my little girl? Where's my starchild?

Em9
The father was long gone, an astronomer of some renown

Em9
Why did you leave me, why did you disappear?

Em9
I bury my face in my hands

Em9
Astonishment and dread in the house of Usher