C            E7
Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby
        F               G
Just to let me down and mess me around?
         C
And then worst of all
    E7                         F
You never call, baby, when you say you will
    G
But I love you still
       C             C7
I need you more than anyone, darlin'
    F                         Fm
You know that I have from the start
   C           G                      F       C  G
So build me up buttercup, don't break my heart


[Verse 1]

         C       G                  Bb        F
"I'll be over at ten, " you tell me time and again
           C             F
But you're late, I wait around and then
  C         G                 Bb          F
I go to the door, and I can't take it anymore
         C               F
It's not you, you let me down again
Dm
  Baby, baby, try to find
Em
  A little time and I'll make you happy
F                       Dm                     G        G
I'll be home, I'll be beside the phone waiting for you, ooh, you


[Chorus]
           C            E7
Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby
        F               G
Just to let me down and mess me around?
         C
And then worst of all
          E7                   F
You never call, baby, when you say you will
    G
But I love you still
       C             C7
I need you more than anyone, darlin'
    F                         Fm
You know that I have from the start
   C           G                      F        C G
So build me up buttercup, don't break my heart


[Verse 2]

   C         G          Bb           F        C
To you I'm a toy, but I could be the boy you adore
              F
If you'd just let me know
         C        G          Bb          F           C
Although you're untrue, I'm attracted to you all the more
         F
Why do I need you so?
Dm
  Baby, baby, try to find
Em
  A little time and I'll make you happy
F                       Dm                     G        G
I'll be home, I'll be beside the phone waiting for you, ooh, you


[Chorus]
           C            E7
Why do you build me up, buttercup, baby
        F               G
Just to let me down and mess me around?
         C
And then worst of all
    E7                         F
You never call, baby, when you say you will
    G
But I love you still
       C             C7
I need you more than anyone, darlin'
    F                         Fm
You know that I have from the start
   C           G                         C
So build me up buttercup, don't break my heart