*** Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

transcribed (sorta) by Chris Carman ([email protected])

Real easy tune... I figured it out back when the single for "Go" came out, with
the b-side acoustic version, but never posted it... guess I'm lazy.

Riff 1 
  D Cadd9  G/B   Cadd9   G/B (G)
--2----3----3------3------3-------
--3----3----3------3------3-------
--2----0----0------0------0-------

--0----2----0------2------0-------
-------3----2------3------2-------
-----------------------------(3)--

Riff 2
  C   A5    C   A5  Cadd9 A5   Em 
--0---------1---------3---------0---
--1---------1---------3---------0---
--0----2----0----2----0----2----0---
--2----2----2----2----2----2----2---
--3----0----3----0----3----0----2---
--------------------------------0---

So all you do is play Riff 1 over the verse and Riff 2 over the chorus,
basically.... here's the lyrics with those chords:

Lyrics to Elderly Woman behind the counter in a small town:

D Cadd9   G/B            Cadd9   G/B
I seem to recognize your face

D   Cadd9 G/B                 Cadd9   G/B
Haunting, familiar, yet can't seem to place it

D      Cadd9  G/B                  Cadd9      G/B
Cannot find a candle of thought to light your name

D   Cadd9     G/B              Cadd9   G/B
Lifetimes are catching up with me.....


C         A5             C        A5                Cadd9
All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place

    A5            Em
But no one's ever taken me.......


D          Cadd9         G/B    Cadd9 G/B 
Hearts and thoughts they fade... fade away..

D          Cadd9         G/B    Cadd9 G/B
Hearts and thoughts they fade... face away.

D Cadd9   G/B            Cadd9    G/B 
I swear I recognize your breath....

D      Cadd9    G/B              Cadd9  G/B
Mem-or-ies like fingerprints are slowly raising

D   Cadd9    G/B            Cadd9  G/B
You wouldn't recall for I'm not my former..

D         Cadd9       G/B             Cadd9  G/B
It's hard when you're stuck up on the shelf...


C            A5              C           A5               Cadd9 
I changed by not changing at all.. small town predicts my fate..

   A5                      Em
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see...


D      Cadd9   G/B        Cadd9   G/B
I just want to scream,... Hello.

D  Cadd9     G/B                   Cadd9         G/B

My god, it's been so long,.. never dreamed you'd return

D       Cadd9    G/B        Cadd9  G/B
But now here you are... and here I am...

D          Cadd9         G/B    Cadd9   G/B
Hearts and thoughts they fade.. away


D          Cadd9         G/B    Cadd9 G/B  
Hearts and thoughts they fade... fade away....
(repeat 4x)


...so basically, Riff 1 4x, then Riff 2, then Riff 1 6x, then Riff 2, then Riff
1 8x, end of song.  

-Chris Carman

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