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- Button Up Your
Overcoat
- Words and Music
by B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson - 1928
| Verse:----------- |
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| C |
- |
Dm7 |
- G7 |
| Dm7 |
- G7 |
C |
G7 |
| C |
- |
Dm7 |
- G7 |
| Em |
G6 |
A |
Am7 D7 |
| Chorus:---------- |
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| G |
- Dm6 E7 |
A7 |
A13 |
| Fdim D7 |
Fdim D7 |
G6 |
- D7 |
| G |
- Dm6 E7 |
A7 |
A13 |
| Fdim D7 |
Fdim D7 |
G6 |
- G7 Dm7 G7 |
| C |
- |
G |
- |
| Em |
- A7 |
D7 Em7 D9 |
Gmaj7 Am7 C#7 |
| G |
- Dm6 E7 |
A7 |
A13 |
| Bdim D7 |
Bdim D7 |
G C7 |
G (to chorus) |
- Verse is in the key of C, Chorus
is in the key of G.
- 8-beat intro. Play 4-beats
for each cell, reading from left to right.
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- Verse:
- List -en, Big boy! Now that
I've got you made,
- Good -ness, but I'm a -fraid.
Some -thing's gon -na hap -pen to you.
- Lis -ten Big Boy! You've
got me hooked and how!
- I would die if I should
lose you now.
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- Chorus:
- But -ton Up Your O -ver
-coat When the wind is free
- Take good care of your -self
your be -long to me!
- Eat an ap -ple ev -'ry day;
Get in bed by three
- Take good care of your -self
you be -long to me!
- Be care -ful cross -ing
streets Oo -oo! Don't eat meats Oo -oo!
- Cut out sweets Oo -oo! You'll
get a pain and ru -in your tum -tum!
- Keep a -way from boot -leg
hootch When you're on a spree
- Take good care of your -self
you be -long to me.
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- Arranged by Jim Bottorff
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- email: jbott@ix.netcom.com