Faces - Three Button Hand Me Down

      
 
 from the album First Step
 tabbed by Clayton Ptak evenflow_pj@yahoo.com 12-04-02
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 (bass intro)

 G|--------------------|-----2----------------------|
 D|---------------2----|-2/4--4\2-2---2--4p2p0------|
 A|-----2----2h4-------|----------------------------|
 E|-2h4----------------|----------------------------|
 

 
 E                            
 I don't need no one's opinion
 On the matter concerning my dress.
 I was raised in a clinic down in Oklahoma,
 There were many things I did not possess.
 A                                          
 I never complained, because my father said,
 "Son you'll get your chance before you're my age".
         E                                     
 Then he took me upstairs and gave me this suit
 Written all over his face
           B                                 
 He said, "Others may come and others may go,
           A                                        
 But that suit will be around wherever you're goin'"
 E                        A 
 Three button hand me down
 E                        A 
 Three button hand me down
 
 (bass intro)1x
 ( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/f/faces/three_button_hand_me_down_crd.html )
 E                                 
 I had my fair share of neat women,
 But they came between me and my suit.
 That was a filly from Boston, a barmaid from Houston,
 Not forgetting the one in Detroit.
                A                                      
 They said, "We like you boy and we think you're sweet,
 But can't you lose your suit?"
         E                                        
 I said, "No, no, no, no, you can't do that to me"
 I remember what my father said:
           B                                 
 He said, "Others may come and others may go,
           A                                        
 But that suit will be around wherever you're goin'"
 E                          A     
 Three button hand me down, ha ha,
 E                        A 
 Three button hand me down
 
 (simple, bluesy solo)
 
 E                             
 I've never been a tidy dresser
 And the fold in my trousers it ain't straight.
 Still I know a good cloth when I see one.
 That's why I'm clad in this gray flannel suit.
 A                                            
 Sometimes I wonder if I should visit a tailor
 And get myself a smooth outfit.
        E                                  
 Then I remember what my father said to me.
 I'll make you from the open road
           B                                 
 He said, "Others may come and others may go,
           A                                  
 But that suit will be around wherever you go"
 E                         A 
 Three button hand me down,
 E                        A 
 Three button hand me down

 G|--------------------------|
 D|--------------------------| some type of funky
 A|-7-7-------5-5-----5------| bass line based on E
 E|-------5h7------7------7--|
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 If you want to play along with the Black Crowes' live version of this
 song, you'll just have to play the exact same thing one step lower.
 E->D A->G B->A simple enough

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