Jason Isbell – Dress Blues chords

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                          Em/GWhat can you see from your window?
G                         Em/GI can't see anything from mine.
G                        Em/GFlags on the side of the highway
    C/G                        G      Dand scripture on grocery store signs.
G                      Em/GMaybe eighteen was too early.
G                        Em/GMaybe thirty or forty is too.
G                               Em/GDid you get your chance to make peace with the man
     C/G                               G          Dbefore he sent down his angels for you?

Chorus:

Em/G      F#/G            GMamas and grandmamas love you
     Em/G             F#/G         G  F#/G'cause that's all they know how to do.
Em/G                     BmYou never planned on the bombs in the sand
   C/G                         G                Dor sleeping in your dress blues.


Verse:

G                                Em/GYour wife said this all would be funny
G                            Em/Gwhen you came back home in a week.
G                              Em/GYou'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you
C/G                           G      Din a bar or a tent by the creek.
G                             Em/GYour baby would just about be here.
G                             Em/GYour very last tour would be up
G                                    Em/Gbut you won't be back. They're all dressing in black
C/G                                G      Ddrinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.

Chorus:

Em/G      F#/G            GMamas and grandmamas love you
 Em/G    F#/G         G  F#/GAmerican boys hate to lose.
Em/G                     BmYou never planned on the bombs in the sand
   C/G                         G                Dor sleeping in your dress blues.

Bridge

Verse

G                               Em/GNow the high school gymnasium's ready,
G                              Em/Gfull of flowers and old legionnaires.
G                      Em/GNobody showed up to protest,

C/G                    G      Djust sniffle and stare.
G                                       Em/GBut there's red, white, and blue in the rafters
G                                   Em/Gand there's silent old men from the corps.
G                             Em/GWhat did they say when they shipped you away
C/G                              G      Dto fight somebody's Hollywood war?


Em/G      F#/G            GNobody here could forget you.
     Em/G             F#/G         G  F#/GYou showed us what we had to lose.
Em/G                     BmYou never planned on the bombs in the sand
   C/G                         G                Dor sleeping in your dress blues.

Em/G                     BmYou never planned on the bombs in the sand
   C/G                         G                Dor sleeping in your dress blues.


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