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

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: G

♫ Intro:

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

♫ Chorus:
C      D         Em
Let me count the ways I love her
    C                   D      Em
And then I'll count the ways I don't
Am           Em
I would do anything for her
C          D      Em
Except for what I won't
Am
               Em
Not much that I won't

Am Em

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

♫ Chorus:
C      D         Em
Let me count the ways I love her
    C                   D          Em
And then I'll count the ways I don't
Am          Em
I can say anything to her
  C        D      Em
Except for what I don't
Am               Em
Don't know why I don't
Am             Em
I wonder why I don't

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

  Fdim            E
I never asked Sara on a first date

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Which one of us is the most withdrawn?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

♫ Outro:
Fdim             E
Maybe some other day
Fdim                E
There will be other days
Fdim             B
Today is another day