Yellow Ledbetter

Words & Music:

Eddie Vedder, Jeffrey Ament & Mike McCready

 

There is a full transcription of this in the September 2005 issue of Guitar One.

 

E              B              A

Unsealed, on a porch a letter sat.

E

Then you said, "I wanna leave it again.

E                   B                  A

Once I saw him on a beach of weathered sand.

E

And on the sand, I wanna leave it again.

E                   B

On a weekend, wanna wish it all way.

         A

And they called and I said, "And I want...what...?"

              E

I said, and I call out again.

 

E                     B

And the reason oughta leave her calm, I know.

A                                    E

I said, "I know what I wear.  That a box or the bag?

E                     B               A

Oh, yeah, can you see them out on the porch?"

E

Ah, but they don't wave.

E                     B                A

I see them 'round the front way, yeah; and I know... and I know...

E

I don't wanna stay.  Make me cry.

 

INSTRUMENTAL SOLO:

 

E                            B                A                    E

I see.  I don't know there's something else.  I wanna drum it all away

E           A                                        E

And I said, I said, "I, I don't know where there's a box or the bag.

E                    B               A

Oh yeah, can you see them out on the porch?

E

Ah, but they don't wave.

E                     B                A

I see them 'round the front way, yeah; and I know... and I know...

              E     E  B   B  A  E

I don't wanna stay.  [repeat & out]