Buttons On My Clothes chords

Del Amitri

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Intro: 
e|6---5p3---3-/------------/------------/-------------/ 
B|--------6---/3-6---3---1-/------------/-------------/ 
G|------------/----5---3---/0-3---0-----/-------------/ 
D|------------/------------/----3---0-3-/--0----------/ 
A|------------/------------/------------/3---1-3---1--/ 
E|------------/------------/------------/--------3---1/ 

Ebmaj7 - Gm - F      2x  


           Bb                       F/A                      
I've been     drinking all through       summer 
                F6/G                F6/G                         
I guess I've             had a laugh  
           Bb                 F/A                            
I've had      every kind of       fun I could have  
F6/G       F6/G                                                
          had  


               Ebmaj7                 F                        
Looking at my          crowd tonight  
            Bb       F/A            F6/G                            
There's a     sober       kind of           sparkle  
F             Ebmaj7        Ebmaj7                                     
   in their          eyes  
               F        F                                 
That I don't     like  




                   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  
          F6/G                 F6/G                             
in this            rocker's town  
        Bb                 F/A                               
I have     lived it up so        long  
             F6/G                F6/G                           
I'll never            live it down  


                  Ebmaj7               F                      
Every back room          bed I've made  
       Bb            F/A                 F6/G                      
Every      allnight       thrill room -           service  
F              Ebmaj7       Ebmaj7                                     
   bill I've          paid  
                   F      F                               
Looks cheap to -     day  




                   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  

 
                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  
       F6/G                  F6/G                               
be -            yond her voice  
         Bb                 F/A                              
But the      memories keep       breaking through the  
F6/G         F6/G                                              
          noise  


                     Ebmaj7              F                     
So brother, send a          ship for me  
           Bb           F/A                                  
before I      wash u -       pon  
      F6/G           F            Ebmaj7      Ebmaj7                         
the            shore of     clari -          ty  
           F       F                                      
And I can     see  


 
                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) 


START FADING  


            Ebmaj7                                           
everybody           knows 
       Gm          F                                       
(she      ain't       coming back) 
              Ebmaj7      Gm - F                                    
everwhere I          go