Dress Blues

	  		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.