"Build Me Up Buttercup" by The Foundations Ukulele Tabs on UkuTabs

Artist	The Foundations
Album	Baby Now That I've Found You
Genre(s)	60s • motown • oldies • pop • soul
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Intro - x2 -: C E7 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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70 Comments

Aoibhe
June 9, 2018 at 22:52 · Reply
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
Aoibhe
June 9, 2018 at 22:50 · Reply
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
WRONG
May 10, 2018 at 17:08 · Reply
It should be Ill make you happy listen to the song
- Brianna S
  June 7, 2018 at 22:15 · Reply
  I’ve always sung it as that lmao I just realized that it didn’t say that.
PanicBean
May 10, 2018 at 15:03 · Reply
Now my thumbs bleeding, great
partypoison
April 24, 2018 at 23:10 · Reply
the strumming pattern is DDU UDU
Musicaltrash
February 24, 2018 at 05:49 · Reply
Nvm. I found the pattern. It’s DDUUD, DDUUD and it continues.
Musicaltrash
February 24, 2018 at 05:32 · Reply
Anyone know the strumming pattern?????
Izzy_Beno
February 22, 2018 at 16:39 · Reply
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… ^-^.
SP=DUDDU - colleen
February 22, 2018 at 05:25 · Reply
strumming patterns in name! x
beckywiththegoodhair
February 20, 2018 at 19:47 · Reply
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