Memory Lane
By Elliott Smith
Tuning : standard
Capo 1rst fret

BEWARE: it’s a tricky song. The intro being really high-pitched you’d think
the capo is gonna be high up the neck. But it’s not! Anyway, the intro is
quite hard to play:

...it goes :

T----T-- 8----8-- 7----7-- 6----6-- 5----5-- 4----4-- 
---7---- ---7---- ---6---- -------- ---3---- ---2---- 
-------- -------- -------- ---6---- -------- -------- 
0-0-0-0- 0-0-0-0- 0-0-0-0- 0-0-0-0- 0-0-0-0- --------
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- 4-4-4-4- 
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
         _fill 2_
2----2-- --------
---3---3 --------
-------- --------
0-0-0-0- 0-2-0---
-------- ------4-
-------- --------
 h                         _fill 3_  h
12------ --2-1-0- -------- -------- 01------ --------
---3-0-- -------- 3--3---3 ---3---- ---3-0-- ----3---
-------- 2------- -4---4-- -2------ -------- 2----42-
--0---0- -------- --5---5- --0---1- --0---0- --2-----
2---2--- 0------- -------- -------- -------- 0---0---
-------- -------- 3------- -------- 3---3--- --------
...and strum D, alternate bass notes.

Chords:       D <x00232>
              Dmaj7 <x4x232> or<x4x222>
              G/B <x20003>
              Gm/B <x10003>
              C#mdim <x4545x>
              F# <244322>
              Bm <x24432>
              Bm/C# <x4x432>
              G <320003>
              A <x02220>
              D’ <Txx55T>
              Cdim <8xx558>
              Bdim <7xx(7)67>
              Bbdim <6xxx56>
              Asus4 <5xxx35>
              Absus4 <4xxx24>
              E <022100>
              Gm <355333>
              Bm/addA <x04432>
              Bm/addAb <4x44x2>

...that’s a lot !



Dmaj7            G/B
     this is the place
              Gm/B
you'll end up when
             D
you lose the chase
             C#mdim               F#
where you’re dragged against your will
       Bm       Bm/C#  G   (insist on B,C#,D).
from a basement on the hill
Dmaj7       G
all anybody knows is

       Bm  A    D (insist on F#,E,D).
you're not like them
        G               (Fill 1)
they hit you in the head
A
  and send you back to bed
D’           Cdim                 Bdim          Bbdim
isolation called you and passed a tunnel into a bright
Asus4               Absus4            G   (fill 2/see intro)
world where you can rule a place of state 
      Bm        A              G
but everybody's scared of this place
                  D  (fill 3/see intro)
they're staying away
      G            A         D
your  little house on memory lane

the mayor’s name is fear
his voice patrols the pier
by a mountain up of cliche
that advances everyday
the doctor speak in clowns
he rings out loud
he’ll keep the doors and windows shut
and sware
never join a soul again
but isolation chased you ‘til every muscle ached
down the only road it ever takes
but everybody's scared of this place
they're staying away
(fill3)G           A         Bm
your  little house on memory lane
               C#mdim
if it's your decision
      D              E
to be open about yourself
              G
be careful or else
              Gm
be careful or else

uncomfortable apart
it's all written on my chart
that i take what's given to me
most cooperatively
i do what people say
and lie in bed all day
absolutely horrified
i hope you're satisfied
isolation pushes past something and chained to
a place where suffering’s a game
but everybody's scared of this place
they're staying away
(fill3)G           A         Bm   Bm/addA  Bm/addAb
your  little house on memory lane
     G            A         D
your little house on memory lane.

Fill 1 : --33-3-3/7\5\3--
         --00-0-0-0-0-0-- (the 3 last 0s are totally
         --00-0-0--------  optional).
         --0--0-0--------
         ----------------
         3---------------

For any corrections, e-mail me at :
<airbornenun@yahoo.fr>.
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