Jason Isbell – Dress Blues (Guitar)
Key
-
Versions
(4)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
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 Em/G What can you see from your window? G Em/G I can't see anything from mine. G Em/G Flags on the side of the highway C/G G D and scripture on grocery store signs. G Em/G Maybe eighteen was too early. G Em/G Maybe thirty or forty is too. G Em/G Did you get your chance to make peace with the man C/G G D before he sent down his angels for you?
[Chorus]
Em/G F#/G G Mamas and grandmamas love you Em/G F#/G G F#/G 'cause that's all they know how to do. Em/G Bm You never planned on the bombs in the sand C/G G D or sleeping in your dress blues.
[Instrumental]
G Em/G G Em/G
[Verse]
G Em/G Your wife said this all would be funny G Em/G when you came back home in a week. G Em/G You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you C/G G D in a bar or a tent by the creek. G Em/G Your baby would just about be here. G Em/G Your very last tour would be up G Em/G but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black C/G G D drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.
[Chorus]
Em/G F#/G G Mamas and grandmamas love you Em/G F#/G G F#/G American boys hate to lose. Em/G Bm You never planned on the bombs in the sand C/G G D or sleeping in your dress blues.
[Instrumental]
G Em/G G Em/G
[Verse]
G Em/G Now the high school gymnasium's ready, G Em/G full of flowers and old legionnaires. G Em/G Nobody showed up to protest, C/G G D just sniffle and stare. G Em/G But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters G Em/G and there's silent old men from the corps. G Em/G What did they say when they shipped you away C/G G D to fight somebody's Hollywood war?
[Outro]
Em/G F#/G G Nobody here could forget you. Em/G F#/G G F#/G You showed us what we had to lose. Em/G Bm You never planned on the bombs in the sand C/G G D or sleeping in your dress blues. Em/G Bm You never planned on the bombs in the sand C/G G or sleeping in your dress blues.