Key: G
Introduction:
G C9 Em7 D C9
There's a skeleton, in every body's closet
D G C9 D
I can think of one or two in my own room
G C9 Em7 D C9
But I would like to intro - duce them both to you
D G C9
Shake their bony hands and so dispel the gloom
D G
Cause your so kind
C9
I know you would not mind
Em7 G Em7- C9
You'd send away the ghosts that haunt me now
D G
And the things I fear
C9
Just wouldn't seem so near
Em7 G
And when I stroll out late at night
C9 G C9/ D
There would be nothin' rattlin' at my heels
C9/ D G
G C9 Em7 D C9
There are nights when all my aching bones won't let me sleep
D G C9 D
And demons come to plague me as I lie in bed
G C9 Em7 D C9
But I know if you were sleeping there be - side me then
D G C9
That you would fend them off and they would let me rest
C9 G
There are nights
D G
When the wind comes howling through my old place
C9 G
I have dreams
D G
And I wake up with the sweat pouring down my face
C9 Em7 D G C G
And I wait......... Till the morning comes
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C Em7 D C9/ G C9 D
G C9 Em7 D C9
There will come a time I fear when all my days are done
D G C9 D
And they will come collect my corpse and bury me
G C9 Em7 D C9
But I hope that you'll come over to the Other Side
D G C9
Join me in our new life, keep me company
D G
Cause your so kind
C9
I know you would not mind
Em7 G Em7- C9
You'd send away the ghosts that haunt me now
D G
And the things I fear
C9
Just wouldn't seem so near
Em7 G
And when I stroll out late at night
C9 G C9/ D
There would be nothin' rattlin' at my heels