Dress Blues by Jason Isbell
Dress Blues by Jason Isbell

Dress Blues

Jason Isbell * Track #5 On Sirens of the Ditch

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Dress Blues by Jason Isbell

Release Date
Tue Jul 10 2007
Performed by
Jason Isbell
Produced by
Jason Isbell
Writed by
Jason Isbell
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The second single from Isbell’s debut solo album, “Dress Blues” is a song Jason Isbell wrote this song for his friend Matthew Connoley. Matthew was a quarterback on his high school football team, at the same school that he met his high school sweetheart, who eventually became his wife. As Matthew re...

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Dress Blues Lyrics

What can you see from your window?
I can't see anything from mine
Flags on the side of the highway
And scripture on grocery store signs

Maybe eighteen was too early
Maybe thirty or forty is too
Did you get your chance to make peace with the man
Before he sent down his angels for you?

Mamas and grandmamas love you
'Cause that's all they know how to do
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleeping in your dress blues

Your wife said this all would be funny
When you came back home in a week
You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you
In a bar or a tent by the creek

Your baby would just about be here
And your very last tour would be up
But you won't be back, they're all dressing in black
Drinking sweet tea in Styrofoam cups

Mamas and grandmamas love you
American boys hate to lose
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleeping in your dress blues

Now the high school gymnasium's ready
Full of flowers and old legionnaires
Nobody showed up to protest
Just sniffle and stare

There's red, white, and blue in the rafters
And there's silent old men from the corps
What did they say when they shipped you away
To fight somebody's Hollywood war?

Nobody here could forget you
You showed us what we had to lose
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleeping in your dress blues

No, no you never planned on the bombs in the sand
Or sleeping in your dress blues

Dress Blues Q&A

Who wrote Dress Blues's ?

Dress Blues was written by Jason Isbell.

Who produced Dress Blues's ?

Dress Blues was produced by Jason Isbell.

When did Jason Isbell release Dress Blues?

Jason Isbell released Dress Blues on Tue Jul 10 2007.

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