Build Me Up Butercup Chords
by Foundations
Build Me Up Butercup by Foundations is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Em, F, G, Bb, D and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro (2x, first time sparse, just bass and tom-toms)
C Em F G
C Em F G G (organ and piano)
C Em
Why do you build me up buttercup baby
F G
just to let me down and mess me around
C Em
and then worst of all you never call baby
F G
when you say you will But I love you still
C Bb
I need you more than anyone darling
F D
You know that I have from the start
C G
So build me up, buttercup,
F Em D C G
don t break my heart
(syncopated - don t play the F
until after you ve sung heart )
Verse I
C G
I ll be over at ten you told me
Bb F
time and a- gain
C F
But you re late I wait a- round and then
C G Bb F
I run to the door I can t take anymore
C F
It s not you you let me down again
F C D G
(Hey Hey Hey) Baby baby try to find
G A Em A
(Hey Hey Hey) A little time and I ll make you mine
A G F D
(Hey Hey Hey) I ll be home
G
I ll be be-side the phone waiting for you
(3 measures G)
Chorus
Verse II
You are my toy but I could be the boy you adore
if you just let me know
Until you do I m attracted to you all the more
why do I need you so
Baby baby try to find
A little time and I ll make you mine
I ll be home I ll be beside the phone
waiting for you (3 measures on G)
Chorus