🎸 Build Me Up Buttercup Ukulele chords by Lara Anderson

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Chorus:
       C       E7
Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby
     F        G
Just to let me down and mess me around?
     C
And then worst of all
   E7            F
You never call, baby, when you say you will
  G
But I love you still
    C       C7
I need you more than anyone, darlin'
    F            Fm
You know that I have from the start
   C       G          F    C G
So build me up buttercup, don't break my heart

Verse 1:

     C    G     Bb        F
"I'll be over at ten, " you tell me time and again
       C       F
But you're late, I wait around and then
  C     G        Bb      F
I go to the door, and I can't take it any more
     C        F
It's not you, you let me down again
 Dm
Baby, baby, try to find
 Em
A little time and I'll make you happy
    F       Dm             G      G
I'll be home, I'll be beside the phone waiting for you, ooh, you


Chorus:
      C        E7
Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby
     F         G
Just to let me down and mess me around?
      C
And then worst of all
   E7            F
You never call, baby, when you say you will
  G
But I love you still
    C       C7
I need you more than anyone, darlin'
   F             Fm
You know that I have from the start
   C      G          F    C G
So build me up buttercup, don't break my heart


Verse 2:

 C     G      Bb     F     C
You were my toy, but I could be the boy you adore
        F
If you'd just let me know
      C   G      Bb     F      C
Although you're untrue, I'm attracted to you all the more
     F
Why do I need you so?
 Dm
Baby, baby, try to find
  Em
A little time and I'll make you happy
   F       Dm             G    G
I'll be home, I'll be beside the phone waiting for you, ooh, you


Chorus:
       C        E7
Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby
    F         G
Just to let me down and mess me around?
     C
And then worst of all
   E7             F
You never call, baby, when you say you will
  G
But I love you still
    C        C7
I need you more than anyone, darlin'
   F             Fm
You know that I have from the start
   C      G           C
So build me up buttercup, don't break my heart