Buttons And Bows Chords
by Jim Ed Brown
Buttons And Bows by Jim Ed Brown is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Am, G7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C
East is east and west is west
And the wrong one I have chose
F C F
Let's go where I'll keep on wearin'
C Am C Am
Those frills and flowers and buttons and bows
C F G7 C G7
Rings and things and buttons and bows
C
Don't bury me in this prairie
Take me where the cement grows
F C F
Let's move down to some big town
C Am C Am
Where they love a gal by the cut of her clothes
C F G7 C
And you'll stand out in buttons and bows
F
I'll love you in buckskin
C
Or skirts that you've homespun
Am
But I'll love you longer stronger where
D7 G7
Your friends don't tote a gun
C
My bones denounce the buckboard bounce
And the cactus hurts my toes
F C F
Let's vamoose where gals keep usin'
C Am C Am
Those silks and satins and linen that shows
C F G7 C
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows
G7 C
Gimme eastern trimmin' where women are women
G7 C
In high silk hose and peek-a-boo clothes
G7 C
And French perfume that rocks the room
G7 F C
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows
F C F C
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