Martha - Tom Waits | Guitar Chords | VChords

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

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

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

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

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



[Outro]
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                        And I remember  quiet evenings trembling close to you