Misc Musicals – Murder Ballad - Sugar Cubes And Rock Salt (Guitar)

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

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

               Em
Not much that I won't

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

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

            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Which one of us is the most withdrawn?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

Fdim             E
Maybe some other day

Fdim                E
There will be other days

Fdim             B
Today is another day...