Build Me Up Buttercup chords by Dodie Clark

Chords with lyrics

Chorus:
     C majorC        E7E7
Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby
 FF          DmDm
Just to let me down… and mess me around?
 C majorC           E7E7
And then worst of all, you never call baby
 FF           DmDm
When you say you will, but I love you still
 C majorC           C7C7
I need you… more than anyone, darling
  FF             F minorFm
You know that I have from the start
 C majorC       G+G             FF    C majorC *
So build me up, Buttercup, don’t break my heart

Verse:
     C majorC   G+G     Bb majorBb      FF
“I’ll be over at ten”, you tell me time and again
      C majorC         DmDm
But you’re late, I’m waiting round and then
 C majorC      G+G       Bb majorBb     FF
I go to the door, I can’t take it anymore
     C majorC        DmDm
It’s not you, you let me down again

Pre-Chorus:
 G7G7     DmDm
Baby, baby - try to find
E minorEm         A7A7
A augmentedA little time, and I’ll make you happy
DmDm       D7D7            G+G
I’ll be home, I’ll be beside the phone, waiting for you
G+G
Ooo-oo-oo-ooo Ooo-oo-oo-ooo

Chorus:
      C majorC      E7E7
Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby
 FF          DmDm
Just to let me down… and mess me around?
 C majorC           E7E7
And then worst of all, you never call baby
 FF           DmDm
When you say you will, but I love you still
 C majorC           C7C7
I need you… more than anyone, darling
  FF             F minorFm
You know that I have from the start
 C majorC       G+G             FF    C majorC *
So build me up, Buttercup, don’t break my heart

Verse:
   C majorC   G+G     Bb majorBb      FF
To you I’m a toy, but I could be the boy
      C majorC         DmDm
You adore, if you’d just let me know
 C majorC      G+G       Bb majorBb     FF
Although you’re untrue, I’m attracted to you
     C majorC        DmDm
All the more… Why do you treat me so?

Pre-Chorus:
 G7G7     DmDm
Baby, baby - try to find
E minorEm         A7A7
A augmentedA little time, and I’ll make you happy
DmDm       D7D7            G+G
I’ll be home, I’ll be beside the phone, waiting for you
G+G
Ooo-oo-oo-ooo Ooo-oo-oo-ooo

Chorus:
      C majorC      E7E7
Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby
 FF          DmDm
Just to let me down… and mess me around?
 C majorC           E7E7
And then worst of all, you never call baby
 FF           DmDm
When you say you will, but I love you still
 C majorC           C7C7
I need you… more than anyone, darling
  FF *            F minorFm *
You know that I have from the start
 C majorC       G+G
So build me up, Buttercup
        FF   F minorFm
don’t break my heart
           C majorC *
don’t break my heart


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| * = single strum

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