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