Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town

Words & Music:

Stone Gossard, Jeffrey Ament, Eddie Vedder,

Michael McCready & David Abbruzzese

You can find an acoustic arrangement of this in the January 2008 issue of Acoustic Guitar and a full arrangement of this in Guitar World Acoustic.

D Cadd9 G/B Cadd9 G/B [etc.]

I seem to recognize your face.

Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it.

Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name.

Lifetimes are catching up with me.

PRE-CHORUS:

Cadd9 A Cadd9 A Cadd9

All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place.

A Em

But no one's ever taken me.

CHORUS:

D Cadd9 G/B Cadd9 G/B

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...

I swear I recognize your breath.

Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.

Me, you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former.

It's hard when, you're stuck upon the shelf.

I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate.

Perhaps that's what no one wants to see.

I just want to scream, "Hello!"

My God, its been so long, never dreamed you'd return.

But, now, here you are, and here I am>

CHORUS: [repeat and out]

Cadd9 = x 3 2 0 3 3

G/B = x 2 0 0 3 3