GHOSTS OF THE PANHANDLE WIND
As recorded by Red Shahan
(2026 release)
Capo 4th fret
Intro
[Am7] [G] [D]
Verse 1
[Am7]
I don't remember much is what I hear they usually say
[G]
I was only 8 when they carried me away
[D]
3 long days of ridin'
[D]
3 long weeks of cryin'
[Am7]
Strange new words I find in place of my own
[G]
Memories are fadin' as the wind blows them home
[D]
You can hear 'em in the darkness
[D]
They are the ghosts of the panhandle wind
[D]
And they go
Chorus
[Am7] [G] [D]
Ooooooooooo
[D]
And they go
[Am7] [G] [D]
Ooooooooooo
Verse 2
[Am7]
Numunu is the people's name the broke land our home
[G]
Up into the flatland where we wander and where we roam
[D]
But a tricksters in the shadows
[D]
With his yips and his yells and his cry's at night like
Chorus
[Am7] [G] [D]
Ooooooooooo
[D]
And they go
[Am7] [G] [D]
Ooooooooooo
[Guitar Solo]
[Am7] [G] [D]
[Am7] [G] [D]
Verse 3
[Am7]
They called him Peta
[Am7]
I called him love
[G]
He gave me Quanah
[G]
He shined like a star from above
[D]
Three bullets in the darkness
[D]
Three days runnin' wild and scared
[Am7]
Swallowed by a world that I'd never come to know
[G]
Laid to rest beneath the pecans where prairie flowers bloom
[D]
While we wait on nocona
[D]
Then we become the ghosts
[D]
The ghosts of the panhandle wind
[D]
And we go
[Out-Chorus]
[Am7] [G] [D]
Ooooooooooo
[D]
And they go
[Am7] [G] [D]
Ooooooooooo
[D]
We go
[Am7] [G] [D]
Ooooooooooo
[Am7] [G] [D]
(Oooooooo)
