Blue Valentines Chords by Tom Waits

[Start]

[Intro]
Dm7 E7 Dm7 E7
■   ■  ■   ■ 


[Verse]
             Dm7      E7        
She sends me ■   blue valentines
        Dm7                  
All the way from Philadelphia
            Dm7        
To mark the anniversary
   Am7                      
Of someone that I used to be


[Chorus]
A7 Am7    Dm7                      
■  And it feels just like a warrant
           Am7      
Is out for my arrest
                Dm7     
Baby you got me checkin'
      E7       Am7    A7
In my rearview mirror ■ 


[Verse]
               Dm7           E7 
That's why I'm always on the run
       Am7                  
That's why I changed my name
      B7                              E7  
And I didn't think you'd ever find me here
                E7        
To send me blue valentines
                   E7    
Like halfforgotten dreams
              Dm7    E7     
Like a pebble ■   in my shoe
          Am7           A7
As I walk these streets ■ 
        Dm7                 
And the ghost of your memory
              Am7                
Baby it's the thistle in the kiss
A7          Dm7                    E7          Am7  A7
■  It's the burglar that can break ■  a rose's neck ■ 


[Chorus]
         Dm7            E7     
It's the tatooed broken promise
  Am7                         
I gotta hide beneath my sleeve
B7                                        E7  
I'm going to see you every time I turn my back


[Inst]
Dm Dm7 F Dm7 E7 Am7 A7 Am7
■  ■   ■ ■   ■  ■   ■  ■  


[Intro]
E7 Am Dm Em7 Am A7 Am E7
■  ■  ■  ■   ■  ■  ■  ■ 
Am7 B7 E7
■   ■  ■ 


[Verse]
    E7                      
She sends me blue valentines
         Dm7    E7             
Though I try to remain at large
        Dm7                E7  
They're insisting that our love
            Am7    A7
Must have a eulogy ■ 
         Dm7      E7             
Why do I save all of this madness
                       Am7   
Here in the nightstand drawer
A7 Dm7                    E7       
■  There to haunt upon my shoulders
       Am7  A7
Baby I know ■ 
       Dm7        E7          Am7            
I'd be luckier to walk around everywhere I go
          B7                    
With this blind and broken heart
E7                     
Sleeps beneath my lapel
              Dm7            
Instead these blue valentines
             E7                   
To remind me ■  of my cardinal sin
            Dm7          E7   
I can never ■   wash the guilt
             Am7             A7      
Or get these bloodstains off my hands
       A7                    
And it takes a lot of whiskey
                         Am7 A7  
To make these nightmares go  away


[Chorus]
          Dm7               E7                
And I cut my bleedin' heart ■  out every night
Am7 A7           Dm7                      E7            Am7           
And ■  I'm going ■   to die a little more ■  on each St Valentines day
          B7                    E7             
Don't you remember I promised I would write you
Dm7        E7        
These blue valentines
E7             
Blue valentines
     A7         Am7 A
Blue valentines ■   ■


[Outro]