Capo 5th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

 In a thousand empty bottles

in a hundred burned out cars

 In a house up in the Catskills… in all the honky-tonks and bars

 All the way across the airwaves, and all the way around this land

 The ghost of Richard Manuel is… walking like a natural man

 Well last night around the campfire… we got high on homemade wine

 We passed around the guitar… and tried to sing “Whispering Pines”

 And in every sweet falsetto… that was more than I could stand

 Was the ghost of Richard Manuel just… walking like a natural man

 Along the keys of my piano… in the kick and in the snare

 In getting your kicks off of parlor tricks… and in a hound dog’s hungry stare

 Well He’s getting frozen up in Canada, and burned in the south land

 But the ghost of Richard Manuel still… walking like a natural man

 Short Break:

 There’s a room full of nicotine poets... three harmony guitars

 And a shopworn tack piano… with 32 bars

 And the Victrola’s in the corner… spinning “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”

 And the ghost of Richard Manuel is… walking like a natural man

 Hey, Hey Richard… Hey, Hey Richard

 Richard won’t you sing us… “Tears of Rage” just one more time