Dress Blues — Jason Isbell
Chords and lyrics for Dress Blues by Jason Isbell (key of G).
Verse 1
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
[C/G]before he sent down his angels for [G]you?[D]
Chorus
[Em/G]Mamas and [F#/G]grandmamas love [G]you
[Em/G]'cause 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 [G]blues.[D]
Instrumental
[G] [Em/G] [G] [Em/G]
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 [G]creek.[D]
[G]Your baby would just about be [Em/G]here.
[G]Your very last tour would be [Em/G]up
[G]but you won't be back. They're all [Em/G]dressing in black
[C/G]drinking sweet tea in styrofoam [G]cups.[D]
Chorus
[Em/G]Mamas and [F#/G]grandmamas love [G]you
[Em/G]American [F#/G]boys hate to [G][F#/G]lose.
[Em/G]You never planned on the [Bm]bombs in the sand
or [C/G]sleeping in your dress [G]blues.[D]
Instrumental
[G] [Em/G] [G] [Em/G]
Verse
[G]Now the high school gymnasium's [Em/G]ready,
[G]full of flowers and old [Em/G]legionnaires.
[G]Nobody showed up to [Em/G]protest,
[C/G]just sniffle and [G]stare.[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 [Em/G]shipped you away
[C/G]to fight somebody's Hollywood [G]war?[D]
Outro
[Em/G]Nobody [F#/G]here could forget [G]you.
You [Em/G]showed us what we [F#/G]had to [G]lose.[F#/G]
[Em/G]You never planned on the [Bm]bombs in the sand
or [C/G]sleeping in your dress [G]blues.[D]
[Em/G]You never planned on the [Bm]bombs in the sand
or [C/G]sleeping in your dress [G]blues.
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