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Intro - x2 -: CE7 F G C E7 Why do you build me up - build me up - Buttercup, baby F G Just to let me down - let me down - and mess me around C E7 And then worst of all - worst of all - you never call, baby F G When you say you will - say you will - but I love you still C C7 I need you - I need you - more than anyone, darlin' F Fm You know that I have from the start C G So build me up Buttercup, F C Don't break my heart C G Bb F "I'll be over at ten," you told me time and again C F But you're late, I wait around and then C G Bb F I went to the door, I can't take any more C F It's not you, you let me down again F C Dm - Hey, hey, hey! - Baby, baby, try to find G Fm Em - Hey, hey, hey! - a little time and I'll make you mine F I'll be home Dm G I'll be beside the phone waiting for you G G Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo C E7 Why do you build me up - build me up - Buttercup, baby F G Just to let me down - let me down - and mess me around C E7 And then worst of all - worst of all - you never call, baby F G When you say you will - say you will - but I love you still C C7 I need you - I need you - more than anyone, darlin' F Fm You know that I have from the start C G So build me up - build me up - Buttercup, F C Don't break my heart C G Bb F To you I'm a toy but I could be the boy you C F Adore, if you'd just let me know C G Although you're untrue, Bb F C I'm attracted to you all the more F Why do I need you so F C Dm - Hey, hey, hey! - Baby, baby, try to find G Fm Em - Hey, hey, hey! - a little time and I'll make you mine F I'll be home Dm G I'll be beside the phone waiting for you G G Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo C E7 Why do you build me up - build me up - Buttercup, baby F G Just to let me down - let me down - and mess me around C E7 And then worst of all - worst of all - you never call, baby F G When you say you will - say you will - but I love you still C C7 I need you - I need you - more than anyone, darlin' F Fm You know that I have from the start C G So build me up - build me up - Buttercup F Bb G C Don't break my heart
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Carefully listen to the song and try to really "feel" the rhythm. Once you get the basics of strumming, I can assure you it'll go real quick. Maybe the strumming guide can help you on your way.
Carefully listen to the song and try to really "feel" the rhythm. Once you get the basics of strumming, I can assure you it'll go real quick. Maybe the strumming guide can help you on your way.
The Foundations were a British soul band, active from 1967 to 1970. The group, made up of both West Indians and Caucasians, is best-remembered for their two biggest hits, Baby, Now That I've Found You (a No. 1 hit in the UK singles chart, and subsequently Top 10 in the US); and Build Me Up Buttercup (a chart topper in the Billboard Hot 100), co-written by Michael d'Abo, vocalist with Manfred Mann. They are also notable for being one of the few acts not on the Tamla Motown label to use successfully what became known as the Motown Sound.
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I used D instead of Dm at “beside the phone”, I think it sounds nicer
Does the desert makes me look fat?
I feel like it does
beautiful
For the ooohs, Tyler just mutes the strings and strums. I think it adds a cool effect tbh
love this song so much, it makes me so h a p p y
sounds better with a capo on first fret if youre singing it the octave higher x
Also I have no idea if that made any sense lol. I MEANT D7 NOT DM7 APOLOGIES
So D7 is bar the second fret and add a finger to the a string on the third fret
Hey just a few of the dm I would change to dm7, so during the heyheyhey verse on the last two likes go from f major, dm7 and then to g for 8
It should be Ill make you happy listen to the song
I’ve always sung it as that lmao I just realized that it didn’t say that.
Now my thumbs bleeding, great
the strumming pattern is DDU UDU
Nvm. I found the pattern. It’s DDUUD, DDUUD and it continues.
Anyone know the strumming pattern?????
Am I the only one not here because Tyler Joseph covered it? Cause o had no idea he did until I read these comments XD… ^-^.
i’m here because of
chloe moriondo not tyler lmao
strumming patterns in name! x
I love this song sooooo much so I’m happy that’s it’s on this website for me to learn it, also this is like the best website to learn any song, especially twentyone pilots.???