Buttons and Bows
Lyrics by Ray Evans
Key: C
Music by Jay Livingston
Copyright 1947

Chords and lyrics provided by Judy Muldawer
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File Created 09/22/2018
File Updated 05/07/2019

Verse 1:

C       F
East is East
    C
and West is West
       C          F      C
and the wrong one I have chose
F                     C
Let's go where you'll keep on
Dm7
wearing those
C          F
frills and flowers and
C           F
buttons and bows,
C         F
rings and things
    G7          C
and buttons and bows

Verse 2:

     C     F
Don't bury me on
C         F
this prairie
        C
Take me where the
  F    C
cement grows
F
Let's move down to
C        Dm7
some big town
           C
Where they love a
F
gal by the
C          F
cut of her clothes
    C
and you'll stand
F      G7          C   C7
out in buttons and bows

Bridge:

     F
I'll love you in buckskin,
                           C
or skirts that you've home spun
                 Am
But I'll love youlonger,
C         Am
stronger, where your
Dm7                  G7
friends don't tote a gun

Verse 3:

   C       F
My bones denounce the
C         F
buckboard  bounce,
        C      F        C
and the cactus hurts my toes,
F
Let's vamoose where the
C         Dm7
gals keep using those
C         F
Silks and satins and
C          F
linen that shows
    C          F
and you're all  mine in
G7          C
buttons and bows

Ending:

        Dm7     G7
Give me Eastern  trimmin' where
C         Am
women are women in
Dm7       G7
High silk hose and
C         Am
peeka boo clothes
    Dm7       G7
and French per fume that
C         Am
rocks the room
    Dm7
and you're all mine
     Dm7          G7
(And I'm all yours)
               C
In buttons and bows

Fadeout:

G7          C     G7
buttons and bows, buttons and
C     G7          C    C6
bows, buttons and bows
      
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