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Build Me Up Buttercup

Album: Baby Now That I've Found You

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Song: Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations

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Intro:
   C E F G
   C E7 F G
 
Chorus:
           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 G C
Don't break my heart 
 
Verse:
          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
 
Pre-Chorus:
 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 
        D7                             G
I'll be beside the phone waiting for you 
 G          G
Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo 
 
Chorus:
           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 G C
Don't break my heart 
 
Verse:
   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 
 
Pre-Chorus:
 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 
        D7                             G
I'll be beside the phone waiting for you 
 G          G
Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo 
 
Chorus:
           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
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research. UkuTabs does not own any songs, lyrics or arrangements posted and/or printed. This arrangement was downloaded for free on UkuTabs.com.
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Biography

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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