BUTTONS ON MY CLOTHES - Del Amitri
Intro:
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Ebmaj7 - Gm - F 2x
Bb F/A
I've been drinking all through summer
F6sus2/G F6sus2/G
I guess I've had a laugh
Bb F/A
I've had every kind of fun I could have
F6sus2/G F6sus2/G
had
Ebmaj7 F
Looking at my crowd tonight
Bb F/A F6sus2/G
There's a sober kind of sparkle
F Ebmaj7 Ebmaj7
in their eyes
F F
That I don't like
Chorus:
Ebmaj7
'Cause everybody knows
Gm F
she ain't coming back
Ebmaj7
The buttons on my clothes
Gm F F
are as plain to see as that
Bb F/A
I'm a man of repu - tation
F6sus2/G F6sus2/G
in this rocker's town
Bb F/A
I have lived it up so long
F6sus2/G F6sus2/G
I'll never live it down
Ebmaj7 F
Every back room bed I've made
Bb F/A F6sus2/G
Every allnight thrill room - service
F Ebmaj7 Ebmaj7
bill I've paid
F F
Looks cheap to - day
Chorus:
Ebmaj7
'Cause everybody knows
Gm F
she ain't coming back
Ebmaj7
The buttons on my clothes
Gm F F
are as plain to see as that
Chorus:
Ebmaj7
Yet everybody knows
Gm F
she ain't coming back
Ebmaj7
The buttons on my clothes
Gm F F
are as plain to see as that
Break:
Cm Cm
I took a chemical va - cation
Gm Eb
in my head
G# Eb
But now I'm back here at the station
Gm G7 Ebmaj7
with a trunk of re - gre - t
Solo:
(Ebmaj7) - Gm - F 2x
Bb F/A
Thought I found myself a frequency
F6sus2/G F6sus2/G
be - yond her voice
Bb F/A
But the memories keep breaking through the
F6sus2/G F6sus2/G
noise
Ebmaj7 F
So brother, send a ship for me
Bb F/A
before I wash u - pon
F6sus2/G F Ebmaj7 Ebmaj7
the shore of clari - ty
F F
And I can see
Chorus:
Ebmaj7
That everybody knows
Gm F
she ain't coming back
Ebmaj7
The buttons on my clothes
Gm F F
are as plain to see as that
Outro:
Ebmaj7
Yeah, everwhere I go,
Gm F
there are ghosts of what I had
Ebmaj7
Like the buttons on my clothes,
Gm F
they are everywhere I'm at
Ebmaj7
Yeah everybody knows
Gm F
(she ain't coming back)
Ebmaj7
everybody knows
Gm F
(she ain't coming back)
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Ebmaj7
everybody knows
Gm F
(she ain't coming back)
Ebmaj7 Gm - F
everwhere I go
Ebmaj7 xx1333
Gm 355333
F 133211
Bb x13331
F/A x03211
F6sus2/G 3x0031
Cm x35543
G# 466544
Eb x68886
G7 353463