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Which one of us is the most withdrawn?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