Three Button Hand Me Down lyrics

(Rod Stewart, Ian McLagen)
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.
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
(?) written all over his face

He said, `Others may come and others may go,
but that suit will be around wherever you`re goin``
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.
That 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 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 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 go`
Three button hand me down,
three button hand me down, ha ha