Murder Ballad - Sugar Cubes And Rock Salt chords by Misc Musicals

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: G+G

♫ Intro:

Cmaj7Cmaj7


♫ Verse 1:
G+G          C majorC
Sugar cubes and rock salt
G+G      D MajorD
Poetry and insults
    C majorC         G+G
She is in this room, but far away
  G+G      D MajorD
Philosophy and child's play
G+G          C majorC
Blue sky days, black sky nights
G+G      D MajorD
Naked skin, covers, fights
C majorC          G+G
Thinking things I'll never say
     D MajorD      G+G
It's just one of those days

♫ Chorus:
C majorC   D MajorD     E minorEm
Let me count the ways I love her
  C majorC          D MajorD   E minorEm
And then I'll count the ways I don't
A minorAm      E minorEm
I would do anything for her
C majorC     D MajorD   E minorEm
Except for what I won't
A minorAm
        E minorEm
Not much that I won't

A minorAm E minorEm

♫ Verse 2:
G+G        C majorC
Sugar cubes and rock salt
  G+G        D MajorD
We ante up, then we default
  C majorC          G+G
The boredom that her eyes convey
            D MajorD
We're atheists who kneel and pray
G+G       C majorC
Rising waves, ebbing tides
G+G        D MajorD
Holding hands on coaster rides
C majorC       G+G
Black, white, mix to grey
       D MajorD   G+G
There will be other days

♫ Chorus:
C majorC   D MajorD     E minorEm
Let me count the ways I love her
  C majorC          D MajorD     E minorEm
And then I'll count the ways I don't
A minorAm     E minorEm
I can say anything to her
 C majorC    D MajorD   E minorEm
Except for what I don't
A minorAm        E minorEm
Don't know why I don't
A minorAm       E minorEm
I wonder why I don't

♫ Bridge:
      BB          G+G
Today, this kid, he came into my office
BB           G+G
Wondering how to ask a girl out
BB            E minorEm
Said she was the kind of pretty
  BB        G+G
To scare the words away
FdimFdim
I said "Drop the briefcase
E MajorE
have a cup of coffee
FdimFdim
Talk Romantic poets."
      FdimFdim  C majorC   A minorAm  E minorEm
Told him, "Read Elizabeth and John
   FdimFdim   C majorC      A minorAm     E minorEm
Miss Barrett Browning and Keats live on
   FdimFdim   C majorC     A minorAm    E minorEm
Their words are yours to build upon"

 FdimFdim      E MajorE
I never asked Sara on a first date

    FdimFdim C majorC    A minorAm  E minorEm
Used to read Elizabeth and John
    FdimFdim  C majorC      A minorAm    E minorEm
Used to talk so much before time wore on
   FdimFdim  C majorC      A minorAm    E minorEm
Which one of us is the most withdrawn?
FdimFdim
I try to speak like Keats wrote:
 E MajorE
A augmentedA thing of beauty, end quote
  FdimFdim
but words stay stuck in my throat

♫ Outro:
FdimFdim       E MajorE
Maybe some other day
FdimFdim        E MajorE
There will be other days
FdimFdim       BB
Today is another day