Button Up Your Overcoat Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays402

Button Up Your Overcoat by Ray Henderson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, A7, D7, G6, C, Em6 and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
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G 
Button up your overcoat 
A7 
When the wind is free 
D7 
Oh take good care of yourself 
    G6 
You belong to me 

C 
Eat an apple every day 
A7 
Get to bed by three 
D7 
Oh take good care of yourself 
    G6 
You belong to me 

G          C 
Be careful crossing streets ooh-ooh 
G 
Cut out sweets ooh-ooh 
Em6 
Lay off meat ooh-ooh 
D                     D7 
You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum 

G 
Wear your flannel underwear 
A7 
When you climb a tree 
    D7 
Oh take good care of yourself 
    G6 
You belong to me 

G 
Button up your overcoat 
A7 
When the wind is free 
    D7 
Oh take good care of yourself 
    G6 
You belong to me 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante