Dress Blues chords by Jason Isbell (Official Version)
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Intro 1
(G major) (E minor7) (G major) (E minor7)
Verse 1
(G major) What can you see from your window? (E minor7)
(G major) I can't see anything from (E minor7) mine
(G major) Flags on the side the highway (E minor7)
And (Csus2) scripture on grocery store signs (G major) (D major)
(G major) Maybe eighteen was too early (E minor7)
Maybe thirty (G major) or forty is (E minor7) too
Did (G major) you get your chance to make peace (E minor7)
with the man
Before he (Csus2) sent down his angels for you? (G major) (D major)
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Chorus 1
(E minor7) Mamas and grandmamas (D/F#) love (G major) you
'cause (E minor7) that's all they know (D/F#) how to do (G major) (D/F#)
You (E minor7) never planned on the bombs (B minor) in the sand
Or (C major) sleeping in your (C minor6) dress blues (G major) (D major)
Interlude 1
(G major) (E minor7) (G major) (E minor7)
Verse 2
Your (G major) wife said this all would be funny (E minor7)
When (G major) you came back home in a week (E minor7)
You'd (G major) turn twenty-two
and we'd (E minor7) celebrate you
In a bar (Csus2) or a tent by the creek (G major) (D major)
Your (G major) baby would just about be (E minor7) here
Your (G major) very last tour would be up (E minor7)
But (G major) you won't be back
They're all (E minor7) dressing in black
Drinking sweet (Csus2) tea in styrofoam (G major) cups (D major)
Chorus 2
(E minor7) Mamas and grandmamas (D/F#) love (G major) you
A (E minor7) merican boys (D/F#) hate to lose (G major) (D/F#)
(E minor7) You never planned on the bombs (B minor) in the sand
Or (C major) sleeping in your (C minor6) dress blues (G major) (D major)
Interlude 2
(G major) (E minor7) (G major) (E minor7)
Verse 3
The (G major) high school gymnasium's ready (E minor7)
Full of flowers (G major) and old legionnaires (E minor7)
(G major) Nobody showed up to protest (E minor7)
Just (Csus2) sniffle and stare (G major) (D major)
There's (G major) red, white, and blue in the rafters (E minor7)
And there's (G major) silent old men from the corps (E minor7)
(G major) What did they say
when they (E minor7) shipped you away
To fight (Csus2) somebody's Hollywood war? (G major) (D major)
Chorus 3
(E minor7) Nobody here (D/F#) could forget (G major) you
You (E minor7) showed us what (D/F#) we had to lose (G major) (D/F#)
You (E minor7) never planned on the bombs (B minor) in the sand
Or (C major) sleeping in your (C minor6) dress blues (G major) (D major)
Outro 1
(E minor7) You never planned on the bombs (B minor) in the sand
Or (C major) sleeping in your (C minor6) dress (G major) blues
Dress Blues
Jason Isbell
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