Love At The Five And Dime Chords by Nanci Griffith

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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.
[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.
[Eb] [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.
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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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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.
[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.
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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.
[Bb] Dance a little closer [Cm] to me.
[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.
[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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[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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