Dress Blues chords by Jessie G

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Intro:

D     F#m    Dmaj7     A


Verse:
     D                                             A
Sun shining through the trees and the leaves all gone
    Dmaj7                                 F#m
The days stop short and the nights grew long
         D                                 F#m
We were young having fun with nothing to lose
        D                       A
Till I saw a boy in his dress blues

        Dmaj7                                   A
I never knew hanging on could mean letting him go
        Dmaj7                               F#m
But you don't have a say when the war says so
          Dmaj7                                F#m
We rushed down to the courthouse and sayin' I do
        Dmaj7                              A
B  white second hand dress and your dress blues

Chorus:
      D  Dmaj7             A
Oh oh I  I will lay you down
        F#m       A                        Dmaj7
And lay by your side 'til we're homeward bound
      Dmaj7                  F#m
And I never felt the way I dooooo
Dmaj7                            A
Seeing you there in your dress blues


Verse:
     D                                 A
The letters took weeks but felt like years
            Dmaj7                           F#m
And they're hard to read through lonesome tears
   D                                    F#m
B  man came knocking and I swore it was you
    D                            A
He broke my heart in his dress blues


Chorus:
      D  Dmaj7             A
Oh oh I  I will lay you down
        F#m       E                A        Dmaj7
And lay by your side 'til we're homeward bound
         Dmaj7                  F#m
And I've never felt the way I dooooo
Dmaj7                            A
Seeing you there in your dress blues


Instrumental:
A    D  Dmaj7     A      F#m    Dmaj7


Verse:
    Dmaj7                               D           A
Sun glaring through the trees and the leaves all gone
     F#m       A                 D
The sound of guns and a bugle song
 D                            F#m
One had a star on a plot for two
   D                                A
B  long black dress and your dress blues


Chorus:
      D  Dmaj7             A
Oh oh I  I will lay you down
        F#m       E              A         D     Dmaj7
And lay by your side when I'm homeward booooooound
                         D      F#m
And I've never felt the way I dooo

 D                               A
Seeing you there in your dress blues
 D                               F#m
Seeing you there in your dress blues


Outro:
    D                                 A
My little white dress and your dress blues