Dress Blues

(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                       
and scripture on grocery store 
 G      D
signs.
G                      Em/G
Maybe eighteen was too early.
G                        Em/G
Maybe thirty or forty is 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          D
you?

(chorus)
Em/G      F#/G            G
Mamas and grandmamas love you
     Em/G             F#/G         
'cause that's all they know how to 
G  F#/G
do.
Em/G                     Bm
You never planned on the bombs in 
the sand
   C/G                         G  
or sleeping in your dress blues.
              D


(verse)
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Your wife said this all would be 
Em/G
funny
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when you came back home in a week.
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You'd turn twenty-two and we'd 
Em/G
celebrate you
C/G                           G  
in a bar or a tent by the creek.
    D

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Your baby would just about be here.
G                             Em/G
Your very last tour would be up
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but you won't be back. They're all
   Em/G
 dressing in black
C/G                           
drinking sweet tea in styrofoam 
     G      D
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  
or sleeping in your dress blues.
              D


(bridge)

(verse)
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Now the high school gymnasium's 
Em/G
ready,
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full of flowers and old 
         Em/G
legionnaires.
G                      Em/G
Nobody showed up to protest,

C/G                    G      D
just sniffle and stare.
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But there's red, white, and blue 
      Em/G
in the rafters
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and there's silent old men from 
  Em/G
the corps.
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What did they say when they shipped 
Em/G
you away
C/G                              
to fight somebody's Hollywood 
G      D
war?

Em/G      F#/G            G
Nobody here could forget you.
     Em/G             F#/G         
You showed us what we had to lose.
G  F#/G

Em/G                     Bm
You never planned on the bombs in 
the sand
   C/G                         G  
or sleeping in your dress blues.
              D


Em/G                     Bm
You never planned on the bombs in 
the sand
   C/G                         G  
or sleeping in your dress blues.
              D