Three Button Hand Me Down (Live on Dave Lee Travis, BBC, 3/15/70)

[Verse 1]

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

I never complained, because my father said

"Son you'll get your chance before you're my age"

Then he took me upstairs and gave me this suit, you know

Written all over his face

[Chorus]

He said, "Others may come and others may go

But that old suit will be around way after you're gone'"

Three button hand me down

Three button hand me down

[Verse 2]

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

Sometimes I wonder if I should visit a tailor

And get myself a smooth outfit

Then I remember what my father said to me

I'll make you from the open road

[Chorus]

He said, "Others may come and others may go

But that old suit will be around way after you're gone'"

Three button hand me down, you know that thing

Three button hand me down

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]

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, you know what that said?

They said, "We like you boy and we think you're sweet

But can't you lose your suit?"

I said, "No, no, no, you can't do that to me"

And here's just what my father said

[Chorus]

He said, "Others may come and others may go

But that suit will be around way after you're gone'"

Three button hand me down

Three button hand me down, woo