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Button Up Your Overcoat - Ruth Etting Chords

Chords: C, Dm7, G7, Em, G, A, D7, A7

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Genre: tin pan alley, jazz, pop


Button Up Your Overcoat- Ruth Etting. 1928

[Verse 1]
C
Listen, big boy
Dm7 G7
Now that you got me made
Dm7 G7
Goodness, but I'm afraid
C G7
Somethin's gonna happen to you

[Verse 2]
C Dm7
Listen, big boy
G7
You gotta be hooked, and how!
Em G A D7
I would die if I should lose you now

[Verse 3]
G
Button up your overcoat
A7
When the wind is free
D7
Take good care of yourself
G G7
You belong to me

[Verse 4]
G
Eat an apple every day
A7
Get to bed by three
D7
Oh, take good care of yourself
G G7
You belong to me

[Chorus 1]
C
Be careful crossing streets, ooh, ooh
G
Don't eat meat, ooh, ooh
Em A7
Cut out sweets, ooh, ooh
D7 N.C.
You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum

[Verse 5]
G
Keep away from bootleg hootch
A7
When you're on a spree
D7
Oh, take good care of yourself

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