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Key : Eb
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[Intro]
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Eb | Bb | Eb | Bb | Cm | Bb | Ab | Eb | Bb | Eb | Bb | Cm | Bb 
Ab

[Verse 1]
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Eb   Bb Eb            Bb     Cm      Bb        Ab
Operator, number please,    it's been so many years
     Eb       Bb Eb          Bb Cm      Bb              Ab
Will she remember  my old voice     while I fight the tears?
   Eb       C7       Fm      Bb      Eb         C7    Fm   Bb
Hello, hello  there, is this Martha? This is old  Tom Frost
    Eb      C7   Fm            Bb      Cm    Bb            Ab
And I am calling long distance,  don't worry 'bout the cost
       Eb        C7         Fm   Bb        Eb           C7      Fm Bb Eb         C7    
'Cause it's been forty years  or more, now Martha please  recall      Meet me out  for 
   Fm  Bb          Cm        Bb      Ab
coffee where we'll talk about  it all

[Chorus (1)]
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    Eb                     Ab     Eb         Ab
And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose
           Cm    Bb      Ab              Fm     Bb  Eb
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was  me
               Ab          Eb              Ab
There was no tomorrows, we packed away our sorrows
            Cm     Bb    Fm   Bb   Eb
And we saved  them for a rainy  day

[Verse 2]
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Eb Bb Eb Bb Cm Bb Ab    Eb     Bb       Eb      Bb Cm            Bb     Ab 
                        And I feel so  much older now,     you're much older too   
Eb            Bb      Eb              Bb
How's your husband? And how's your kids?
              Cm    Bb         Ab
You know that I got married too
Eb          C7         Fm    Bb         Eb        C7      Fm Bb       Eb         C7 
  Lucky that  you found  someone to make  you feel  secure     'Cause we were all  
  Fm        Bb       Cm        Bb      Ab
so young and foolish, now we are  mature

[Chorus (2)]
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    Eb                     Ab     Eb         Ab
And those were the days of roses, poetry and prose
           Cm    Bb      Ab              Fm     Bb  Eb
And Martha all I had was you and all you had was  me
               Ab          Eb              Ab
There was no tomorrows, we packed away our sorrows
       Cm    Bb       Fm   Bb    Eb
And we saved them for a rainy day

[Pre-Verse]
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Eb | Bb | Eb | Bb | Cm | Bb | Ab | Eb | Bb | Eb | Bb 

[Verse 3]
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Cm Bb Ab    Eb      Bb Eb      Bb    Cm          Bb        Ab Eb            
        And I was always so impulsive, I guess that I  still am     And all that
 Bb   Eb           Bb    Cm    Bb         Ab
 really mattered then    was that I  was a man
  Eb            C7     Fm  Bb         Eb         C7     Fm Bb    Eb     C7 Fm     Bb  
I guess that our  being  together was never meant  to be     But Martha,   Martha,  I 
Cm             Bb        Ab
love you, can't  you see?



[Outro]
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Eb Bb Eb Bb Cm Bb Ab    Eb     Bb Eb       Bb  Cm        Bb       Ab
                        And I remember  quiet evenings trembling close to you
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