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Buttons And Bows

Words and Music by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans - 1948

Number 1 on the Hit Parade in 1948, played for 19 weeks.

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
Gm7       G7	F	Gm7	F
Bb          F	Bb         F	Gm7       C7	F
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F           Dm	F          Dm	F           Dm	F           Dm
Bb	F          Bb    C9	F           Dm	F           Dm
F           Bb	C          C7    F	-	-
F           Dm	F           Dm	F           Dm	F           Dm
Bb	F          Bb    C9	F           Dm	F           Dm
F           Bb	C          C7    F	-	Cm7      F7
Bb	-	-	F
-	-	G9        Dm7  G7	C7
F           Dm	F          Dm	F           Dm	F           Dm
Bb	F          Bb    C9	F           Dm	F           Dm
F           Bb	C          C7    F	F	-  (To Chorus)
Ending:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
Gm7       C7	F	Gm7       C7	F
Gm7       C7	F	Gm7       C7	-           F

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

A west -ern ranch is just a branch of No -where Junc -tion to me.

Gim -me the cit -y where liv -ins' pret -ty and the gals wear fin -er -y.

 

Chorus:

East is east and west is west and the wrong one I have chose;

Let's go where you'll keep on wear -in' those frills and flow -ers and but -tons and bows.

Rings and things and but -tons and bows.

Don't bur -y me in this prai -rie, Take me where the ce -ment grows;

Let's move down to some big town where they love a gal by the cut o' her clothes

And you'll stand out in but -tons and bows.

I'll love you in buck -skin or skirts that you've have -spun.

But I'll love ya' long -er, strong -er where yer friends don't tote a gun.

My bones de -nounce the buck -board bounce and the Cac -tus hurts my toes;

Let's va -moose where gals keep us -in' those silks and sat -ins and lin -en that shows,

And you're all mine in but -tons and bows.

 

Ending:

Gim -me east -ern trim -min' where wom -en, are wom -en in

High silk hose and peek -a -boo clothes and French per -fume that rocks the room

And you're all mine in but -tons and bows.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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