Dress Blues chords by Zac Brown Band

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Half Step Down

Main Chords:

G+G    320003
G/F#   2x0033
E minorEm    022000
C/GC/G   x32013
D MajorD    xx0232
B minorBm    224432
C majorC    x35553
C minorCm    x35543


INTRO

G+G  G+G  E minorEm  E minorEm
G+G  G+G  E minorEm  E minorEm
G+G  G+G  E minorEm  E minorEm
C/GC/G C/GC/G G+G   D MajorD

VERSE

G+G             E minorEm
What can you see from your window?
G+G             E minorEm
I can't see anything from mine.
G+G            E minorEm
Flags on the side of the highway
  C/GC/G            G+G   D MajorD
and scripture on grocery store signs.
G+G           E minorEm
Maybe eighteen was too early.
   G+G         E minorEm
Maybe thirty or forty is too.
  G+G              E minorEm
Did you get your chance to make peace with the man
     C/GC/G           G+G  D MajorD
before he sent down his angels for you?

CHORUS

E minorEm    D MajorD     G+G
Mamas and grandmamas love you
    E minorEm       D MajorD      G+G G/F#
'cause that's all they know how to do.
E minorEm            B minorBm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C majorC      C minorCm    G+G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

G+G  G+G  E minorEm  E minorEm
G+G  G+G  E minorEm  E minorEm

VERSE

   G+G              E minorEm
Your wife said this all would be funny
   G+G            E minorEm
when you came back home in a week.
   G+G            E minorEm
You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you
   C/GC/G         G+G   D MajorD
in a bar or a tent by the creek.
   G+G           E minorEm
Your baby would just about be here.
   G+G            E minorEm
Your very last tour would be up
  G+G               E minorEm
but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black
     C/GC/G          G+G   D MajorD
drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.

CHORUS

E minorEm    D MajorD     G+G
Mamas and grandmamas love you
E minorEm    D MajorD      G+G G/F#
American boys hate to lose.
E minorEm            B minorBm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C majorC      C minorCm    G+G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

G+G  G+G  E minorEm  E minorEm
G+G  G+G  E minorEm  E minorEm
G+G  G+G  E minorEm  E minorEm
C/GC/G C/GC/G G+G   D MajorD

VERSE

    G+G            E minorEm
Now the high school gymnasium's ready,
    G+G           E minorEm
full of flowers and old legionnaires.
G+G          E minorEm
Nobody showed up to protest,
C/GC/G       G+G   D MajorD
just sniffle and stare.
      G+G              E minorEm
But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters
      G+G            E minorEm
and there's silent old men from the corps.
G+G              E minorEm
What did they say when they shipped you away
    C/GC/G          G+G  D MajorD
to give all in some god awful war

CHORUS

E minorEm   D MajorD    G+G
Nobody here can forget you.
  E minorEm       D MajorD     G+G G/F#
You showed us what we had to lose.
E minorEm            B minorBm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C majorC      C minorCm    G+G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

E minorEm            B minorBm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C majorC      C minorCm    G+G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

E minorEm            B minorBm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C majorC      C minorCm    G+G