Dress Blues

	 
Chords Used: 
Em/G: 022033
C/G:  x32033
F#/G: 2x0033
[Intro]
G  Em/G  G  Em/G
[Strophe]
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                        G      D 
and scripture on grocery store signs. 
G                      Em/G 
Maybe eighteen was too early. 
G                        Em/G 
Maybe thirty or forty is too. 
G                               Em/G 
Did you get your chance to make peace with the man 
     C/G                               G          D 
before he sent down his angels for you?
[Refrain]
Em/G      F#/G            G 
Mamas and grandmamas love you 
     Em/G             F#/G         G  F#/G 
'cause that's all they know how to do. 
Em/G                     Bm 
You never planned on the bombs in the sand 
   C/G                         G                D 
or sleeping in your dress blues.
[Strophe]
G                                Em/G 
Your wife said this all would be funny 
G                            Em/G 
when you came back home in a week. 
G                              Em/G 
You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you 
C/G                           G      D 
in a bar or a tent by the creek. 
G                             Em/G 
Your baby would just about be here. 
G                             Em/G 
Your very last tour would be up 
G                                    Em/G 
but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black 
C/G                                G      D 
drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.
[Refrain]
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                D 
or sleeping in your dress blues.
[Pont]
[Strophe]
G                               Em/G 
Now the high school gymnasium's ready, 
G                              Em/G 
full of flowers and old legionnaires. 
G                      Em/G 
Nobody showed up to protest,  
C/G                    G      D 
just sniffle and stare. 
G                                       Em/G 
But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters 
G                                   Em/G 
and there's silent old men from the corps. 
G                             Em/G 
What did they say when they shipped you away 
C/G                              G      D 
to fight somebody's Hollywood war?
[Outro]
Em/G      F#/G            G 
Nobody here could forget you. 
     Em/G             F#/G         G  F#/G 
You showed us what we had to lose. 
Em/G                     Bm 
You never planned on the bombs in the sand 
   C/G                         G                D 
or sleeping in your dress blues.  
Em/G                     Bm 
You never planned on the bombs in the sand 
   C/G                         G                D 
or sleeping in your dress blues.