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Dress Blues easy guitar chords by
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell

Intro 1
G
Em
G
Em

Verse 1
G
Em

What can you see from your window?
G
Em

I can't see anything from mine
G
Em

Flags on the side the highway
C
G
D

And scripture on grocery store signs
G
Em

Maybe eighteen was too early
G
Em

Maybe thirty or forty is too
G
Em

Did you get your chance to make peace

with the man
C
G
D

Before he sent down his angels for you?
Chorus 1
Em
D
G

Mamas and grandmamas love you
Em
D
G
D

'cause that's all they know how to do
Em
Bm

You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C
Cm
G
D

Or sleeping in your dress blues
Interlude 1
G
Em
G
Em

Verse 2
G
Em

Your wife said this all would be funny
G
Em

When you came back home in a week
G

You'd turn twenty-two
Em

and we'd celebrate you
C
G
D

In a bar or a tent by the creek
G
Em

Your baby would just about be here
G
Em

Your very last tour would be up
G

But you won't be back
Em

They're all dressing in black
C
G
D

Drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups
Chorus 2
Em
D
G

Mamas and grandmamas love you
Em
D
G
D

American boys hate to lose
Em
Bm

You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C
Cm
G
D

Or sleeping in your dress blues
Interlude 2
G
Em
G
Em

Verse 3
G
Em

The high school gymnasium's ready
G
Em

Full of flowers and old legionnaires
G
Em

Nobody showed up to protest
C
G
D

Just sniffle and stare
G
Em

There's red, white, and blue in the rafters
G
Em

And there's silent old men from the corps
G

What did they say
Em

when they shipped you away
C
G
D

To fight somebody's Hollywood war?
Chorus 3
Em
D
G

Nobody here could forget you
Em
D
G
D

You showed us what we had to lose
Em
Bm

You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C
Cm
G
D

Or sleeping in your dress blues
Outro 1
Em
Bm

You never planned on the bombs in the sand
C
Cm
G
Or sleeping in your dress blues

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Chords
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  • Em

  • C

  • D

  • Bm

    2
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    3

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