Frank Turner – Build Me Up Buttercup (Guitar)

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Full credit should go to JamieParkinson for such great work on the original tab. I just super-simplified it into chords so I hope I did their tab justice. Enjoy. Chords: (For the more obscure shapes in the chorus) E7 x20100 G7 x20001 Fm6/D xx0111 G 3x0003 Intro: C G x2 Chorus:

           C            E7                    F               G7 
Why do you build me up Buttercup baby just to let me down and mess me around 

          C               E7                        F              G7 
And then worst of all you never call baby when you say you will but I love you still 

        C             E7                 F                        Fm6/D 
I need you more than anyone darlin', you know that I have from the start 

   C           G                         F      C
So build me up Buttercup. Don't break my heart

Verse:

         C      G                Bb       F                C            F 
I'll be over at ten, you tell me time and again but you're late. I wait around and then

  C           G          Bb            F                 C                F 
I went to the door and I can't take no more but it's not you. You let me down again

Pre-chorus:

Dm        G          E7                 Am
Baby Baby try to find a little time and I'll make you happy 

F                      D/F#                      G      G7
I'll be home waiting beside the phone waiting for you.

Chorus:

           C            E7                    F               G7 
Why do you build me up Buttercup baby just to let me down and mess me around 

          C               E7                        F              G7 
And then worst of all you never call baby when you say you will but I love you still 

        C             E7                 F                        Fm6/D 
I need you more than anyone darlin', you know that I have from the start 

   C           G                         F      C
So build me up Buttercup. Don't break my heart

Verse:

   C         G         Bb           F       C                    F 
To you I'm a toy but I could be the boy you adore, if you'd just let me know

   C              G        Bb           F            C             F 
Although you're untrue I'm attracted to you all the more. Why do I need you so?

Pre-chorus:

Dm        G            E7               Am
Baby Baby try to find a little time and I'll make you happy 

F                      D/F#                      G          G7
I'll be home waiting beside the phone waiting for you.   Ohhhhhh

Chorus:

            C            E7                    F               G7 
Why do you build me up Buttercup baby just to let me down and mess me around 

          C               E7                        F              G7 
And then worst of all you never call baby when you say you will but I love you still 

        C             E7                 F                        Fm6/D 
I need you more than anyone darlin', you know that I have from the start 

   C           G                         F      C
So build me up Buttercup. Don't break my heart