Three Button Hand Me Down Lyrics - 1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything... - Faces

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 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 

Written all over his face 

He said, "others may come and the others may go 

But that suit will be around wherever you're goin'" 

Three button hand me down 

Three button hand me down 

Now I had my fair share of these 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, "no, no, no, no, you can't do that to me" 

I remember what my father said 

He said, "others may come and the others may go 

But that suit will be around wherever you're goin'" 

Three button hand me down, ha, ha 

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'll make you from the open road, you all know this 

He said, "others may come and the others may go 

But that suit'll be around wherever you go", c'mon 

Three button hand me down 

Three button hand me down, haha