Dress Blues chords by Jason Isbell (Official Version)
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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What can you see from your window?
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I can't see anything from mine
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Flags on the side the highway
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And scripture on grocery store signs
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Maybe eighteen was too early
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Maybe thirty or forty is too
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Did you get your chance to make peace
with the man
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Before he sent down his angels for you?
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Chorus 1
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Mamas and grandmamas love you
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'cause that's all they know how to do
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You never planned on the bombs in the sand
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Or sleeping in your dress blues
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Your wife said this all would be funny
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When you came back home in a week
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You'd turn twenty-two
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and we'd celebrate you
Csus2
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In a bar or a tent by the creek
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Your baby would just about be here
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Your very last tour would be up
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But you won't be back
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They're all dressing in black
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Drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups
Chorus 2
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Mamas and grandmamas love you
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American boys hate to lose
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You never planned on the bombs in the sand
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Or sleeping in your dress blues
Interlude 2
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Verse 3
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The high school gymnasium's ready
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Full of flowers and old legionnaires
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Nobody showed up to protest
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Just sniffle and stare
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There's red, white, and blue in the rafters
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And there's silent old men from the corps
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What did they say
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when they shipped you away
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To fight somebody's Hollywood war?
Chorus 3
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Nobody here could forget you
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You showed us what we had to lose
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Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
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Or sleeping in your dress blues
Outro 1
Em7
Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
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Cm6
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Or sleeping in your dress blues
Dress Blues
Jason Isbell
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