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Bb _ _ _ .
As a young girl growing up in Austin, Texas, there was a very
Eb special building down at.
6th and
Bb Congress Avenue.
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_ It was a place that you went to change buses _ when you were going
Eb from north to south Austin.
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Bb When you got off the bus, you had just enough time to run inside and get yourself a Coca-Cola.
and look through the record bin and wink at the boys and get back on the bus.
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Bb It was called the Woolworth's Store.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Come to find out, they have Woolworth's Stores
Eb all over the world.
Bb The first time I went to London, we drove up in front of one and we'd just flown into.
town and I wanted to stop the car so I could get out and go fill up my suitcase with unnecessary plastic objects.
Eb _ _ _
Bb _ _ _ _ _ .
_ But all Woolworth's Stores are special.
They all smell the same.
Eb They smell a little bit like popcorn and chewing gum rubbed around
Bb on the bottom of a leather sole shoe.
_ They all have the same sound.
Those that have an elevator in them have a little sound like this.
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Eb And I've always been asked what that little sound
Bb was in this song.
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And that's what it is.
It's the elevator coming up and down in the old Woolworth's Store.
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Eb _ .
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Bb _ _ _ _ _ .
Rita was sixteen years, hazel eyes and chest
Eb smothered.
She ate the Woolworth's
Bb pound of chai.
_ _ _ And Eddie was a sweet romancer and a darn good
Eb dancer.
And it was the
Bb aisles of the five and nine.
_ And they'd sing, dance a little closer to
Cm me.
Dance a little closer
Bb now.
Dance a little closer to
Cm me.
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Bb Dance a little
Cm closer to me.
Bb It's closing time
F and love's on sale tonight at
Bb this five and nine.
_ _ And Eddie played the steel guitar and his mama cried cause he played in the
Eb bars.
And he kept young Rita howl
Bb-cated night.
_ _ So they married up in Abilene.
Lost a child in Tennessee.
Eb _ _ _ .
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Bb _ _ And they'd sing, dance a little closer
Cm to me.
Dance
F a little
Eb closer
Bb now.
Dance a little closer
F to
Cm me.
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Bb Dance a little closer
Cm to me.
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Bb It's closing time cause love's on sale tonight at this five and nine.
_ _ One of the boys in Eddie's band took a shot and Rita's hand.
Eb So Eddie ran off with the bass
Bb man's wife.
_ _ Oh but he was back by June singing a different tune.
Eb _ Sporting Miss Rita back by
Bb his side.
_ _ And he'd sing, dance a little closer to me.
Dance
Cm a little closer
Dm now.
Dance a little closer
Cm to me.
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Bb _ Dance a little closer
Cm to me.
It's closing
Bb time and love's on sale tonight at this five and nine.
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Eb _ _ _ .
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Bb _ _ _ _ Eddie traveled with the barroom band till Lars White just took his
Eb hands.
Now he sells insurance on
Bb the side.
_ _ _ And Rita's got her house to keep.
She writes dime store novels of a love so
Eb sweet.
They dance to the radio
Bb late at night.
_ They still sing, dance a little closer
Cm to me.
Dance a little closer
Bb now.
Dance a little closer
Cm to me.
_ _
Bb _ Dance a little closer to me.
Cm Hey it's
F closing time and love's on sale tonight at this
Bb five and nine.
_ _ _ Rita was sixteen years.
Hazel eyes are just not here.
Eb She really made the
Bb Woolworth counter shine.
_ _ _ And Eddie was a sweet romancer.
They say he was a darn good
Eb dancer.
And it was the
Bb Isles of the Five and Nine.
And they lived a mighty simple life.
Eb Who was the Isles of the Five
Bb and Nine.
We could all go tomorrow and take a date.
Eb Who was the Isles of
Bb the Five and Nine.
Who _ _ _ .
Gm _
N asked to meet me?.
Me, you.
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