tom waits
From 1973 Elektra album "Closing Time". His first album, and his most busker-friendly one: material and performance not so very nightclub-like, music not too much inspired by jazz, blues and ridiculous rythms - and his vocals still sound like coming from THIS side of hell :-D
operator: number please • it's been so many years
she'll remember my old voice while I fight the tears
hello ? hello there, is it Martha ? this is old Tom Frost
and I am calling long distance • don't worry bout the cost
cause it's been forty years or more now : Martha please recall
meet me out for coffee and we'll talk about it all
I feel so much older now • you're much older too
how's your husband and how's your kids ? you know that I got married too ?
lucky that you found someone to make you feel secure
cause we were both so young and foolish : now we are matured
I was always so impulsive • I guess that I still am
but all that really mattered then was that I was a man
I guess that our being together was never meant to be
but Martha • Martha : I love you can't you see ?
those were days of roses • poetry and prose and
Martha : all I had was you and all you had was me
there were no tomorrows • we'd packed away our sorrows
and we saved them for a rainy day
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G D7 G D7 Em D7 C operator number please it's been so many years G D7 G D7 Em D C she'll remember my old voice while I fight the tears G E7 Am D7 G E7 Am ...D7 hello hello there is this Martha ? this is ol' Tom Frost G E7 Am D7 Em D C I am calling long distance don't worry about the cost G E7 Am D7 G E7 Am ...D7 it's been fourty years or more now Martha please recall G E7 Am D Em D C and meet me out for coffee where we'll talk about it all G C G C and those were days of roses of poetry and prose Am C Am D G ...D7 and Martha all I had was you and all you had was me G C G C there was no tomorrow we packed away our sorrows Am C D G and we saved them for a rainy day
