Dress Blues Jason Isbell
Chords Used:
G: 320033
Em/G: 022033
C/G: x32033
D: xx0232
F#/G: 2x0033
Bm: x24432
Intro:
[G] [Em/G] [G] [Em/G]
Verse:
[G]What can you see from your [Em/G]window?
[G]I can't see anything from [Em/G]mine.
[G]Flags on the side of the [Em/G]highway
and [C/G]scripture on grocery store [G]signs.[D]
[G]Maybe eighteen was too [Em/G]early.
[G]Maybe thirty or forty is [Em/G]too.
[G]Did you get your chance to make [Em/G]peace with the man
befor[C/G]e he sent down his angels for you?[G] [D]
Chorus:
[Em/G]Mamas and [F#/G]grandmamas love [G]you
'caus[Em/G]e that's all they[F#/G] know how to [G]do.[F#/G]
[Em/G]You never planned on the [Bm]bombs in the sand
or [C/G]sleeping in your dress blues[G].[D]
Verse:
[G]Your wife said this all would be [Em/G]funny
[G]when you came back home in a [Em/G]week.
[G]You'd turn twenty-two and we'd [Em/G]celebrate you
[C/G]in a bar or a tent by the cree[G]k.[D]
[G]Your baby would just about be [Em/G]here.
[G]Your very last tour would be u[Em/G]p
[G]but you won't be back. They're all dr[Em/G]essing in black
[C/G]drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cup[G]s.[D]
Chorus:
[Em/G]Mamas and [F#/G]grandmamas love [G]you
A[Em/G]merican [F#/G]boys hate to [G]los[F#/G]e.
[Em/G]You never planned on the [Bm]bombs in the sand
or [C/G]sleeping in your dress blues[G].[D]
Bridge
Verse
[G]Now the high school gymnasium's [Em/G]ready,
[G]full of flowers and old legionn[Em/G]aires.
[G]Nobody showed up to pro[Em/G]test,
[C/G]just sniffle and stare.[G] [D]
[G]But there's red, white, and blue in the [Em/G]rafters
[G]and there's silent old men from the [Em/G]corps.
[G]What did they say when they sh[Em/G]ipped you away
[C/G]to fight somebody's Hollywood war[G]?[D]
[Em/G]Nobody her[F#/G]e could forget y[G]ou.
You s[Em/G]howed us what we [F#/G]had to lose.[G] [F#/G]
[Em/G]You never planned on the [Bm]bombs in the sand
or [C/G]sleeping in your dress blues[G].[D]
[Em/G]You never planned on the [Bm]bombs in the sand
or [C/G]sleeping in your dress blues[G].[D]
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