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Button Up Your Overcoat

Artist: Helen KaneComposer: Brown,DeSylva and HendersonCopyright: 1928GoChords.com

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1. But - ton up your o - vercoat_____, When the wind is free_____,

2. Wear your flan - nel un - derwear_____, When you climb a tree_____,

3. When you sass a tra - ffic cop_____, Use di - plo - ma-cy______,

4. Don't go out with coll - ege boys____, When you're on a spree____,

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1. Take___ good care of yourself, You belong to me___!

2. Oh, take good care of yourself, You belong to me___!

3. Just take good care of yourself, You belong to me___!

4. Take___ good care of yourself, You belong to me___! (end of song)

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1. Eat an ap - ple ev - ery day_____, Get to bed by three___,

2. But - ton up your o - ver - coat____, When the wind is free,

3. Keep the spoon out of your cup____, When you're drinking tea_____,

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Take good care of yourself, You belong to me_____!

Take good care of yourself, You belong to me_____!

Take good care of yourself, You belong to me_____!

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Be care - ful crossing streets, Oo-oo, Cut out sweets, Oo-oo,

Be ware of fro - zen ponds, Oo-oo, Stocks and bonds, Oo-oo,

Don't sit on hor - net's tails, Oo-oo! Or on nails_ , Oo-oo,

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Lay off meat, Oo-oo, You'll get a pain and ruin your tum - tum! (go to verse 2)

Peroxide blondes, Oo-oo, You'll get a pain and ruin your bank - roll! (go to verse 3)

Or third rails, Oo-oo, You'll get a pain and ruin your tum - tum! (go to verse 4)

1929 singer Helen Kane who's childlike voice and Bronx dialect eventually became the inspiration for the voice of cartoon character Betty Boop (most famously using Kane's famous catchphrase Boop Boop a Doop).
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