Chords for Jason Isbell - Dress Blues (Live at Saxon Pub)

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_ _ _ [Bm] Alright, one more.
Daylight!
One more shot.
Shoot.
_ _ [G] I can't beat that [Bm] song when it's actually daylight. _ _
_ When the ground wouldn't drive.
It's [B] just too damn high for me to [C#] sing.
That's all I can do. _ _ _ _ _
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[B] _ [D#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ This is about a guy that I went to high school with in Greenville, Alabama.
Rogers High School, _ which is also Rogers Middle School, _ Rogers Elementary School, Rogers _ _ _ _
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Kindergarten.
This guy was the quarterback on the high school football team.
[D#m] A few years [F#] after I graduated, he was younger than me, but he _ _ proposed to his girlfriend
in the parking lot of the football stadium. _ _
_ She said, yep. _
And _ they got married and he went overseas with the Marine Corps. _ _ _ _
And at _ some _ point in there _ on the leave, _ she got pregnant with a little girl.
And _ he went back and got killed and then his little girl got born. _ _ _
[D#m] _ _ [F#] And I wrote this song about him.
_ _ His name was [D#m] Matthew Conway.
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_ Out of the highway, _ _ _ [Bm] inscription on grocery [F#] store signs.
_ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] Maybe 18 was too early, _ _ but maybe 30 or 40 is too. _ _
_ _ _ You get your chance to make peace with the man _ before he sent down an angel. _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] Mamas and _ grandmamas love you.
_ _ Cause that's all they know how to _ _ do.
_ You never planned on the bombs in [A#m] the sand [B] or sleeping in your [F#] _ dress blue. _
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[F#] _ _ _ And your wife said this all would be real funny.
_ _ _ When he comes back home in a week, _ _ _ _ _ he'll turn 22 and we'll celebrate you
_ in a bar or a tent by the creek. _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#] And your baby would just about be _ here.
_ _ And your very last tour would be up. _
_ And you ain't coming back.
_ We're all dressed in black and drinking sweet [B]
tea with _ _ [F#] styrofoam cups.
[C#] _ _ [D#m] And mamas [C#] and grandmamas [F#] love you. _ _ _ _
American boys hate to _ lose.
_ _ And you never planned on the bombs in the sand [B] or sleeping in your _ [F#] dress blue. _
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_ _ They got [F#] the high school _ gymnasium ready [D#m] _ [F#] _
to blow _ flowers at all legionnaires. _
_ _ _ And nobody showed up to _ protest.
They [B] all sniffled and [F#] stared. _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ But [F#] there's red, white, and blue _ _ drafters.
_ _ And silent old men from the court.
_ _ _ What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war? _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ [D#m] Nobody _ [F#] here could forget you.
_ _ You showed us what we had to _ _ _ lose.
[D#m] And you [F#] never planned on [A#m] the bombs in the [F#] sand [B] or sleeping in your _ [F#m] dress blue.
_ [C#] _ _ [D#m] No, you never planned on the [A#m]
bombs in the sand [B] or sleeping in [F#] your _ dress _ blue. _ _ _
[N] _ Thank you very much.
That was a wonderful performance.
_ I appreciate my thoughts, son. _ _ _ _
Hopefully the [Bm] next guy we meet is going to be [N] sweet.
He'd be wonderful to have a good time.
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