Gold River Ghost 4/4 Key D

Gold River runs from the Atlantic Ocean, ending up near Blue Mountain, Nova Scotia...it is also the name of a small town between Mahone Bay and Chester Basin, on the coast area where the river begins. Gold was mined along the river from the mid 1800's until the mid 1900's. 

I saw the sign indicating the Gold River while driving along Hwy 103 and I just had to research what it was all about. The lyrics for the song began to gather and I wrote them into a guitar riff I had been fooling with. I use guitar, bass, mandolin, bass drum, tambourine and piano in this one with some etherial tones drifting about the background. I also sing the main vocal.

 Gold River Ghost

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V1) Aristocrats in towers hide by the sea

Where aromatic flowers are brewed into a tea

An angel came on the wing, when I heard her sing

I felt like a king

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Ch1) Feel the pain like a ball and chain, it's insane

Gold River lost in the rain,

Gold River lost in the rain

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V2) Something to remember, something to forget

It's snowing in September, the fields are cold and wet

Stop 'cause I have to say, why don't you stay

You've drifted away

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Ch2)

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Bridge) Can we find our way, our way

We've been gone so long

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V3) Now the miner's father lives in the town

The hangman's daughter burned the gallows down

We dig down deep in the ground making no sound

But look what we found

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Ch3) to End

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