Chords for Kathy Mattea - Love at the Five and Dime

[Bb] Well, [F] somebody requested this [Bb] song today, and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I recorded this song many years ago.
I was a young thing.
I was a young up-and-coming singer with a big country music perm _ and giant shoulder pads. _
_ It was just an unfortunate time to get famous, you know?
_ The guys had it a little easier than we did.
_ But _ just recently, you know, we had these big floods in Nashville, and a lot of us,
you know, kind of had stuff we had to deal with.
My basement got flooded and lost some instruments, and, _ you know, our studio was down there and stuff.
_ _ And I found my wedding dress sitting in the water, and so I draped it over the back fence
and let it dry out.
And it was in my dining room, and a couple of days later, a friend of mine came over,
and that was sort of the moment that it all kind of hit me, what had happened, you know?
And we were looking at my wedding dress, and _ it was draped over the dining room table,
and I started to get kind of teary, you know, and choke up.
And she put her arm around me, and she said, I'm really sorry all this happened to you,
but let's just be real about it.
No one is ever going to wear that wedding dress again.
_ _ _ _ _ It was 1988.
It's very little Bo Peep, you know? _ _
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Rita was 16 years, hazel eyes and chestnut [Eb] hair.
_ She made the Woolworth counter [Bb] shine. _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ And Eddie was a sweet _ [F] romancer and a darn good dancer.
[Eb] _ And they'd waltz the isles at the five [Bb] and dime. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ Now Eddie played his steel guitar, [F] and his mama cried as he played in the bars.
[Eb] _ He kept young Rita out late at [Bb] night. _ _ _ _ _
_ So they married up in Abilene, _ lost a [F] child in Tennessee. _
[Eb] _ Oh, and still that love [Bb] survived.
_ _ _ Cause it sings, dance a little closer to [Cm] me.
Dance a little closer [Bb] now.
_ Dance a little closer [Cm] tonight.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ Dance a little closer to [Cm] me.
Cause it's closing time and love's on sale [F] tonight at this [Bb] five and dime. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ One of the boys in Eddie's band _ [F] took a shine to Rita's hand.
[Eb] _ _ So Eddie ran off with the bass [Bb] man's wife. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Oh, but he was back by June [F] _ singing a different tune, _
[Eb] _ _ sporting Miss Rita back by his [Bb] side.
_ _ _ And he said, dance a little closer to [Cm] me.
Dance a little closer [Bb] now.
_ Dance a little closer [Cm] _
tonight.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ Dance a little closer to [Cm] me.
Cause [F] it's closing [Cm] time and love's on sale [F] tonight at this five [Bb] and dime. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Eddie traveled with the ballroom bands till arthritis took his hands.
[Eb] And now he sells insurance on the [Bb] side.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ Rita's got a house to keep, dime store [F] novels and a love so sweet.
[Eb] They dance to radio [Bb] late at night.
_ _ _ And they sing, dance a little closer to [Cm] me.
_ Dance a little closer [Bb] now.
_ Dance a little closer tonight.
[Cm] _ Oh, you feel like singing? _ _
[Bb] _ _ Dance a little closer to [Cm] me.
_ Cause it's closing time and love's on sale [F] tonight at this [Bb] five and dime.
_ _ _ [F] _
_ [Bb] _ _ Dance a little closer to [Cm] me.
Dance a little closer [Bb] now.
_ Dance a little _ closer tonight.
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ Dance a little closer to [Cm] me.
Cause it's closing time and love's on sale tonight at this five and dime.
_ Oh, _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] at this _ _ five and _ dime. _ _ _ _ _
_ Mm-hmm. _ _ _
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