Dress Blues chords by Zac Brown Band

Tuning: Half Step Down

Main Chords:

G    320003
G/F#   2x0033
Em    022000
C/G   x32013
D    xx0232
Bm    224432
C    x35553
Cm    x35543


INTRO

G  G  Em  Em
G  G  Em  Em
G  G  Em  Em
C/G C/G G   D

VERSE

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

CHORUS

Em    D     G
Mamas and grandmamas love you
    Em       D      G G/F#
'cause that's all they know how to do.
Em            Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C      Cm    G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

G  G  Em  Em
G  G  Em  Em

VERSE

   G              Em
Your wife said this all would be funny
   G            Em
when you came back home in a week.
   G            Em
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
Your baby would just about be here.
   G            Em
Your very last tour would be up
  G               Em
but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black
     C/G          G   D
drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.

CHORUS

Em    D     G
Mamas and grandmamas love you
Em    D      G G/F#
American boys hate to lose.
Em            Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C      Cm    G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

G  G  Em  Em
G  G  Em  Em
G  G  Em  Em
C/G C/G G   D

VERSE

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

CHORUS

Em   D    G
Nobody here can forget you.
  Em       D     G G/F#
You showed us what we had to lose.
Em            Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C      Cm    G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

Em            Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C      Cm    G
or sleeping in your dress blues.

Em            Bm
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
  C      Cm    G