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"Dress Blues (live)" By: Jason Isbell from the album "Sirens of the Ditch" Another one of my favorites by Jason Isbell. This is such a deep song that has lyrics. Every time he plays it live he makes sure to let the audience know that he wrote this for his friend from high school, Matt Connolly,who joined the marines and was killed by roadside bomb in Iraq. I'm not exactly sure what the names for each of the chords used are so I figured I'd write them out here instead. He also plays a melody throughout the song in between the and verse so I put a few little variations of that at the bottom. Chords Used: G: 3x0033 Em/G: 02x033 C/G: x3x033 D: xx0232 F#/G: 2x0033 Bm: x24432 C/G2: x32013 Cm: x31003 Intro: G Em/G G Em/G Verse:
GWhat can you see from your Em/Gwindow? GI can't see anything from Em/Gmine. GFlags on the side of the Em/Ghighway and C/Gscripture on grocery store Gsigns. D GMaybe eighteen was too Em/Gearly. GMaybe thirty or forty is Em/Gtoo. GDid you get your chance to make Em/Gpeace with the man before he C/Gsent down his angels for Gyou?
Chorus:
Em/GMamas and F#/Ggrandmamas love Gyou 'causEm/Ge that's all theyF#/G know how to Gdo.F#/G Em/GYou never planned on the Bmbombs in the sand or C/G2sleeping in Cmyour dress Gblues.
-- Alright now I'm going to show you a few variations on the bridge he plays... play all these kind of loosely (except the album version) Bridge Variation 1: e|-3--------------------3-----------------------------------------| B|-3--------------------3-----------------------------------------| G|-0-------0---0--0-----0-----------------------------------------| A|-0--0----0---2--0--0--x-----------------------------------------| D|-x--0h2------3-----3--2-----------------------------------------| E|-3--------------------0-----------------------------------------| Bridge Variation 2: e|--------------------------------------3-------------------------| B|--------------------------------------3-------------------------| G|----0-----0-----0-----0-----0------0--0-------------------------| A|-------------------2-----0------------x-------------------------| D|-------0-----2------------------3-----2-------------------------| E|-3------------------------------------0-------------------------| Album Version (not played by guitar): e|-----------------------------------------------------------------| B|-----------------------------------------------------------------| G|-----------------0--0~-------------------------------------------| A|-----------0--4--------------------------------------------------| D|-----0--2--------------------------------------------------------| E|--3--------------------------------------------------------------| -The Verse, Chorus, and Bridge are all the same for the rest of the song. Verse: Your wife said this all would be funny when you came back home in a week. You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you in a bar or a tent by the creek. Your baby would just about be here. Your very last tour would be up but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups. Chorus: Mamas and grandmamas love you. American boys hate to lose. You never planned on the bombs in the sand or sleeping in your dress blues. Bridge Verse Now the high school gymnasium's ready, full of flowers and old legionnaires. Nobody showed up to protest, just sniffle and stare. But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters and there's silent old men from the corps. What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war? Chorus Nobody here could forget you. You showed us what we had to lose. You never planned on the bombs in the sand or sleeping in your dress blues. Tabbed by: Wyatt Floyd