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Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter (1992) | Track profile | Dork

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Lost Dogs
Yellow Ledbetter

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Yellow Ledbetter

Release date: 1st August 1992

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"Yellow Ledbetter" is a track by Pearl Jam, from the album Lost Dogs, released 1st August 1992. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Pearl Jam.

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Yellow Ledbetter

[Verse]

Unsealed on a porch a letter sat

Then you said I wanna leave it again

Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand

And on the sand I wanna leave it again, yeah

On a weekend, wanna wish it all away, yeah

And they called and I said that I want what I said

And then I call out again

And the reason oughta leave her calm, I know

I said, I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag

[Chorus]

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

Yeah, but they don't wave

I see them 'round the front way, yeah

And I know and I know, I don't wanna stay

[Post-Chorus]

(Make me cry)

[Guitar Solo: Mike McCready]

[Bridge]

I see

I don't know, why, there's something else

I wanna drum it all away, oh, I said I

I don't, I don't know whether there's the boxer or the bag

[Chorus]

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

Yeah, but they don't wave

I see them 'round the front way, yeah

And I know and I know, I don't wanna stay, at all

[Post-Chorus]

I don't wanna stay

I don't wanna stay

I don't wanna stay, I don't, no

Yeah

[Outro]

Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

[Instrumental Outro]

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1992

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1992

—Yellow Ledbetter
—Dead Man
—Sweet Lew
—Undone
—4/20/02
—Wash
—Fatal
—Hold On
—Hard to Imagine
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—U
—Gremmie Out of Control
—Strangest Tribe
—Drifting
—Other Side
—Down
—Don't Gimme No Lip
—Leavin' Here
—Bee Girl
—All Night
—Black Red Yellow (Lost Dogs Version)
—In the Moonlight
—Whale Song
—Alone
—Brother (Lost Dogs Version)
—Sad
—Footsteps
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The Murder Capital, Cat Power and more have been announced to support Pearl Jam on their Hyde Park shows

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready
Producer: Rick Parashar
Engineer: Nick DiDia
Bass: Jeff Ament
Drums: Dave Abbruzzese
Guitar: Mike McCready, Stone Gossard
Vocals: Eddie Vedder
Mixing Engineer: Brett Eliason