Button up Your Overcoat (Diatonic)

Sarah Vaughn/Johnny Mercer

KEY OF C

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Lis-ten big boy

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now that I’ve got you made.

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Good-ness but I’m af-raid.

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Some-thing’s gon-na hap-pen to you.

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Lis-ten big boy.

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You’ve got me hooked and how.

(CHORUS)

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But-ton up your o-ver-coat.

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when the wind is free

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Take good care of your-self

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you bel-ong to me

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Eat an ap-ple ev-ry day.

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Get to bed by three

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Take good care of your-self

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you be-long to me

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Be care-ful cros-sing streets. ooh, ooh

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Don’t eat meats ooh, ooh.

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Cut out sweets, ooh, ooh.

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You’ll get a pain and ru-in your tum tum.

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Keep a-way from boot-leg hootch,

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when you’re on a spree

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Take good care of your-self you be-long to me