Martha Chords by Tom Waits

[Start]

[Intro]
Eb Bb7 Eb Cm Bb Ab Eb Bb
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Eb Bb Cm Ab Eb
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[Verse]
                Bb    
Operator number please
Cm                Ab   
It's been so many years
     Eb  Bb       Eb     Bb   
Will she remember my old voice
Cm                Ab   
While I fight the tears
Eb    Cm    Fm            Eb    
Hello hello there is this Martha
        Cm      Fm   
This is old Tom Frost
    Eb   Cm      Fm           
And I am calling long distance
Cm                    Ab  
Don't worry 'bout the cost
Eb               Cm    Eb           
'cause it's been forty years or more
           Cm     Fm    
Now Martha please recall
Eb      Cm            
Meet me out for coffee
                 Eb       Ab 
Where we'll talk about it all


[Chorus]
          Eb               Ab    Eb         Ab   
And those were the days of roses poetry and prose
               Cm        Ab              Fm7 Bbsus4 Eb
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was    me
          Ab           Eb               Ab         
There was no tomorrows we'd packed away our sorrows
       Cm               Fm       
And we saved them for a rainy day
Eb Bb7 Eb Bb Cm Ab
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[Verse]
           Bb      Eb    Bb 
And I feel so much older now
    Cm                Ab 
And you're much older too
Eb         Bb          Eb        Bb  
How's your husband and how's the kids
              Cm    Eb      Bb  Ab
You know that I got married too ■ 
Eb Cm         Fm               
■  Lucky that you found someone
   Eb                  
To make you feel secure
               C7                      
'cause we were all so young and foolish
Cm         Bb     Ab
Now we are mature ■ 


[Chorus]
    Eb                     Ab    Eb         Ab   
And those were the days of roses poetry and prose
                                     Fm7         Eb
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was me
             Ab             Eb              Ab     
There was no tomorrows we'd packed away our sorrows
                  Cm    Fm7   Bbsus4
And we saved them for a rainy day   


[Inst]
Eb Bb Cm Bb Ab Bbsus4 Eb Bb
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Eb Bb Ab
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[Verse]
    Bb              Eb        Bb
And I was always so impulsive ■ 
        Cm           Ab
I guess that I still am
Eb                               
And all that really mattered then
         Cm         Ab 
Was that ■  I was a man
        Eb   C7        Fm      
I guess that our being together
    Eb    C7         
Was never meant to be
    Bb     Eb     C7
And Martha Martha ■ 
Fm   Cm       Eb        Ab 
■  I love you can't you see


[Chorus]
    Eb                     Ab    Eb              
And those were the days of roses poetry and prose
Ab               Cm      Ab                  Bbsus4 Eb
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was    me
             Ab             Eb              Ab     
There was no tomorrows we'd packed away our sorrows
    Cm            Ab    Fm    Eb 
And we saved them for a rainy day
Bb Eb Bb Cm Bb Ab Eb
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[Outro]
                     Bb      
And I remember quiet evenings
Cm        Bb       Ab 
Trembling close to you