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/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. 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. Bridge 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? 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 D or sleeping in your dress blues. http://www.jasonisbell.com/
