Chords
Dress Blues

 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          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.

 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 
or sleeping in your dress blues.