Three Button Hand Me Down

Written by: R. Wood & R. Stewart
Performed by: The Faces
Debuted live: December 5th, 1990
Performances of this song: Check the Crowesbase
Released by TBC: Never Released In Any Form
Notes:

Lyrics:
I 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 didn't possess
Well I never complained, because my father said,
"Son you get your chance before you're my age."
Then he took me upstairs and gave me this suit
Grinning all over his face

He said "Others may come and others may go,
But that suit will be around wherever you're going"
Three button hand-me-down
Three button hand-me-down

Hold on a minute

Now I had my fair share of neat women,
But they came between me and my suit.
There was a filly from Boston, a barmaid from Houston,
not forgetting the one in Detroit.
They said, "We like you boy and we think you're sweet
But can't you lose your suit?"
I said, "Nononono, you can't do that to me"
I remember what my father said:

He said "Others may come and others may go,
but that suit will be around wherever you're going"
Three button hand-me-down
Three button hand-me-down

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 make it from the open road, you all know this

He said "Others may come and others may go
But that suit will be around wherever you're going"
Three button hand-me-down
Three button hand-me-down, ha ha
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