Zac Brown Band – Dress Blues (Guitar)

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*Half Step Down* [Main Chords] G 320003 G/F# 2x0033 Em 022000 C/G x32013 D xx0232 Bm 224432 C x35553 Cm x35543 Fancy it up with the help of this video: [Intro] G G Em Em G G Em Em G G Em Em C/G C/G G D [Verse]
G                          Em
What can you see from your window?

G                         Em
I can't see anything from mine.

G                        Em
Flags on the side of the highway

    C/G                        G      D
and scripture on grocery store signs.

G                      Em
Maybe eighteen was too early.

      G                  Em
Maybe thirty or forty is too.

    G                           Em
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        D          G
Mamas and grandmamas love you

       Em              D           G  G/F#
'cause that's all they know how to do.

Em                       Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand

   C            Cm        G        
or sleeping in your dress blues.
G G Em Em G G Em Em [Verse]
     G                           Em
Your wife said this all would be funny

     G                       Em
when you came back home in a week.

      G                        Em 
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
Your baby would just about be here.

     G                       Em
Your very last tour would be up

    G                              Em
but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black

         C/G                    G     D
drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.
[Chorus]
Em        D          G
Mamas and grandmamas love you

Em       D            G  G/F#
American boys hate to lose.

Em                       Bm          
You never planned on the bombs in the sand

   C            Cm        G
or sleeping in your dress blues.
G G Em Em G G Em Em G G Em Em C/G C/G G D [Verse]
        G                       Em
Now the high school gymnasium's ready,

        G                      Em
full of flowers and old legionnaires.

G                   Em
Nobody showed up to protest,

C/G              G     D
just sniffle and stare.

            G                           Em
But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters

            G                       Em
and there's silent old men from the corps.

G                           Em
What did they say when they shipped you away

        C/G                   G   D
to give all in some god awful war
[Chorus]
Em     D        G
Nobody here can forget you.

    Em             D         G  G/F#
You showed us what we had to lose.

Em                       Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand

   C            Cm        G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

Em                       Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand

   C            Cm        G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

Em                       Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand

   C            Cm        G    
or sleeping in your dress blues.