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[Introduction]
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C
Q. When I was in
New York recently,
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Someone mentioned a
"phantom hitchhiker" who
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Supposedly haunts the
Am
New York State Thruway.
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Sounds weird;
Em
What's the story?
Dm Bb G C
B. A., Des Plaines
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A: For the last five years,
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The story has
surfaced periodically
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Of a young, beared man
Am
Dressed all in white
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Who thumbs rides along
Em Dm Bb G
the thruway.
3.
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When the fellow is
given a lift,
D
the story goes,
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He begins talking about
Am
religion --
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Then disappears
Em
from the car
Dm
During the
Bb Bdim
conversation
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Dr Lydia Fish
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of Buffalo State College
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Is studying stories
Am
of the phantom.
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So far
she has collected
More than
Em
sixty reports of
Dm7 G
The Mysterious Stranger
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | The Mysterious Stranger, page 2
[The Mysterious Stranger]
5. [Slow & sultry -- hot]
C
Sunday Chicago --
D
out in the street
E
People out walkin'
Am
around in the heat
F
So many you meet
Em
Who don't give
Dm Bb Bdim
any of themselves6. [Driving, rising heat]
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Summer-bound city --
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out for a drive
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The people are dead
Am
but the city's alive
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The city's a hive.
Em
It's pretty if
Dm Bb Bdim
you're just driving by
[Bridge #1]
Cmaj7
Passing the towers
Dm7
that crowd by the lake
Ebmaj7
Thinking how much all this
Dbmaj7 C
city seems fake.
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One person hitchhiking
D
-- going somewhere
E
In a dress and old sandals
Am
a beard and long hair
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I stop to help him
Em
in spite of my fear
Dm
He gets in my car but
Bb Bdim
he gets in the rear
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C
We don't say much
D
after we say hello
E
Wondering why I stopped
Am
-- How this will go
F
I'm getting nervous
Em
and light up a smoke
Dm
When my passenger
Bb Bdim
finally spoke (he said:)
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | The Mysterious Stranger, page 3
9.
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"Sunday Chicago --
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what can a man do?
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I'd be glad to help if
Am
I just had a clue.
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So many of you who
Em Dm
Don't give any
Bb Bdim
of yourselves.
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"Bummer-bound city --
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my friend I perceive
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You are the kind who
Am
would like to believe.
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If you will receive
Ebmaj7
Your God in your heart
Dm7
You can begin
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To play your part."11.
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Something inside of me
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started to burn
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When he asked,
"Do you believe
Am
Christ will return?"
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I looked in the mirror
Em
-- he wasn't behind!
Dm
The whole thing
must have been
Bb
produced by my mind.
[Bridge to end]
Cmaj7
Sunday Chicago --
Dm7
It's all been reborn
Ebmaj7
Ever since
Dmaj7 C
that morning.As you can tell by the links below, the phantom hitchhiker has been around for a long time, and many other stories in many states can be found searching the web. I swiped the introduction from a Q&A column in a Chicago paper (which one I don't recall).
"The vanishing hitchhiker (or phantom hitchhiker) is a reported phenomenon in which people travelling by vehicle meet with or are accompanied by a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle. Vanishing hitchhikers have been reported for centuries and the story is found across the world, in many variants...."
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Vanishing Hitchhiker in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_hitchhiker
"...Lydia M. Fish of the State University College of New York at Buffalo discovered in more than sixty texts she and her students collected locally that the current hitchhiker is likely to be "a beautiful young hippie clad in shining white" who engages his host or hosts in a conversation about Jesus and His Second Coming before disappearing. Sometimes he even leaves his seat belt buckled up..."
The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand, 1981
http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/vanish.html
"The core story concerns a traveller who offers a ride to a vulnerable-looking pedestrian, only to find his passenger has disappeared without trace. Later investigations reveal that the passenger was a supernatural entity, not a living human being at all."
The Vanishing Hitchhiker at Fifty-Five by Gillian Bennett
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_199801/ai_n8801434
Although stories of "vanishing hitchhikers" in Chicago date back to the horse and buggy days, Marys tale begins in the 1930s. It was around this time that drivers along Archer Avenue started reporting strange encounters with a young woman in a white dress.
Resurrection Mary -- Chicago's Most Elusive Ghost by Troy Taylor
http://www.prairieghosts.com/resurcem.html
Chicago's Other Vanishing Hitchhikers! The Flapper Ghost & Others! by Troy Taylor
http://www.prairieghosts.com/flapper.html
Phantom Hitchhiker on Google Image Search
http://images.google.com/images?q=phantom+hitchhiker
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[chorus] Bb7 Going to the bank oh Doncha think it's funny F The bank is where Db C7F They keep the money
1. F They don't sell shoes They don't bake bread They only deal in dollars and cents instead Bb7 Give all your dough and wot the heck F Just to get it back y'gotta write a check [chorus]
2. They don't sell nails An' they don't cobble shoes Dealin' with a bank can Give me greenback blues And if you ever do meet an officer Ya get no thanks Leaves me wond'rin' why we bother to deal with banks [chorus]
3. They don't produce a product If they're s'posed to be a service Then why do they always make me so Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nervous? And if you sign away your cash And everything you own and you never do anything rash or unusual MAYBE you'll get a loan! [chorus]
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #4
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[chorus]
F
If it looks like a duck
Bb
If it walks like a duck
C7
If it quacks like a duck
Db F C
He thinks that it's a chick- a- dee
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Well Georgie Porgie just took office
Bb F
Talking 'bout setting our country free
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From an overbearing Federal government
Bb C
So what's the first thing that we see?
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He says he wants to take away abortion
Bb F
Next he wants to start a savings tax
Bb
Didn't we just get through
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With eight long years of this?
C7 F
I was thinking that we might relax, but
[chorus]
Mindful Webworks | Radical Incline | Barks Like a Duck, page 2
2.
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I don't know what we can do about him
Bb F
'Cause it seems the man is out of reach
F F7
With little Danny Quayle as Number Two
Bb C
Noooo way we're going to impeach
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I guess we'll simply have to be patient
Bb F
And pray the man will only get four
B
I only hope that his idea
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Of a kind and gentle nation
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Doesn't mean we have to go to war 'cause
[chorus]
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1.
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Do you know why we have a recession?
F C
We got out of Viet Namn!
Bb
Do you know why we have the inflation?
Bb F
'Cause nobody gives a damn!
F
Do you know why our cities are dying?
Bb
No one's int'rested anymore!
Dm F
Do you know what is good for the nation?
Bb Am D
We have to fight a war!
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Do you know how to get the money?
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Our Congress must decide!
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Do you know how to raise the army?
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Grab the men before they hide!
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Do you know what we have as weapons?
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Our good humor and our skills!
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Do you know how to rouse the people?
C
Let righteousness light their wills!
Mindful Webworks | Radical Incline | Call to Arms, page 2
3. [first ending]
Dm
Do you have a choice of enemy?
F C
Starvation and disease!
Em
Do you recognize the hostiles?
B
They're doing as they please!
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Do you care about the Future
Am
and what we can become?
F C
The total of our efforts
F Em Dm C
is greater than the sum
[Repeat from first verse]
3. [second ending]
Dm
Do you have a choice of enemy?
F C
Starvation and disease!
Em
Do you recognize the hostiles?
B
They're doing as they please!
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Do you care about the Future
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We have to win the fight!
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So, write in to your Congressman
F Em Dm C
and go enlist to - night!
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1.
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Two weeks off
F Dm
for every year.
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Unread books.
Dm
Expensive beer.
Dm
Suburban dream house
F Dm
free from noise.
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In the yard work
Dm
knee-grow boys.
Eb
Cereal burger.
Dm
Flavored waste.
Eb
Artificial
Dm
preservative paste.
Eb
Short on vitamins.
Dm
Flat in taste.
Eb
But Neiman-
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Marcus toys!
2. Years of toil, Enduring lack. A good-investment Cadillac. Frozen processed food and drink. Pay a woman to clean the sink. Poison spray to kill the bugs. Two machines to clean the rugs. Why do the kids want to look like thugs? They don't know how to think!
3. Try to show how much I care. Pay my son to cut his hair. Don't let daughter be a mess. Purchase her a decent dress. Happy to help them live their life. Help my daughter to be a wife. Son doesn't want the honor of strife. Must be lazy I guess.
4. Boys learn sports and automobiles. Girls learn sewing and making meals. Women gossip and Men don't cry. No more labor when we die. Captialism! Democracy! Competition! The Brave and Free! Eveyone else better think like me, And he better not ask why!
5.
Work is hard but
play is fun.
Politics is
Washington.
Education is
in the school.
Churches teach
the Golden rule.
Court is order.
Cops are laws.
No one said they
don't have flaws.
But the came's back
holds plenty of
straws and
Eb F Gm
God will get the fool.
God will get the fool.
Eb F G
God will get the fool!
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #13 - Election 2016, 2016 Nov 4
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