Tuning: Standard (Capo 5th fret)
 
Intro: D5 , G5 B5 , A5 , G5 , D5

        D5                            G5
In a thousand empty bottles? in a hundred burned out cars 
      B5                 A5                   G5              D5
In a house up in the Catskills? in all the honky-tonks and bars 
         D5                                    G5
All the way across the airwaves, and all the way around this land 
     B5                A5      G5                         D5  G5  B5  A5  G5
The ghost of Richard Manuel is? walking like a natural man

            D5                                G5
Well last night around the campfire? we got high on homemade wine 
     B5                 A5                  G5                 D5
We passed around the guitar? and tried to sing ?Whispering Pines? 
         D5                             G5
And in every sweet falsetto? that was more than I could stand 
         B5                A5        G5                         D5  G5  B5  A5  G5
Was the ghost of Richard Manuel just? walking like a natural man 

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Along the keys of my piano? in the kick and in the snare 
      B5                       A5                       G5                     D5
In getting your kicks off of parlor tricks? and in a hound dog?s hungry stare 
                    D5                        G5
Well He?s getting frozen up in Canada, and burned in the south land 
         B5                A5         G5                         D5  G5  B5  A5  G5
But the ghost of Richard Manuel still? walking like a natural man 

Short Break: D5   G5   B5   A5   G5

           D5                                      G5
There?s a room full of nicotine poets... three harmony guitars 
         B5          A5          G5   D5
And a shopworn tack piano? with 32 bars                                     
            D5                                   G5
And the Victrola?s in the corner? spinning ?Alexander?s Ragtime Band? 
         B5                A5       G5                        D5
And the ghost of Richard Manuel is? walking like a natural man 
            G5                 B5   A5 
Hey, Hey Richard? Hey, Hey Richard
   G5                                  A5          G5         D5
Richard won?t you sing us? ?Tears of Rage? just one more time
D5   G5   B5   A5   G5
D5   G5   B5   A5   G5   D?