Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating chords by
Ben Harper
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Key: E minor

Intro 1

Verse 1
Gm Gm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
Bb Bb 
 
Gm Gm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
You're the first one to  get there
Bb Bb 
 
G G 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
And always the last one
Gm Gm 
 
G G 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
to leave
Eb Eb 
 
F F 
 
You're the first one to
C C 
 
F F 
 
Gm Gm 
 
G G 
 
chuckle
Gm Gm 
 
C C 
 
Gm Gm 
 
G G 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
But the last one to grieve
D D 
 
I know all too well the world

Verse 2

takes a daily beating

Please don't talk about murder while I'm

eating

Verse 3
Bb Bb 
 
Gm Gm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
Gm Gm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
Bb Bb 
 
You walk into the temple
Gm Gm 
 
C C 
 
And call it a church
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
I try to keep things simple
C C 
 
Gm Gm 
 
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
Bb Bb 
 
But you al  ways need the works
C C 
 
F F 
 
Your life is marked by
C C 
 
numbers and symbols
F F 
 
Gm Gm 
 
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
Excessive drinking from
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
out of golden thimbles
D D 
 
Just a moment of silence I'm needing

Verse 4

So let's not talk about murder while I'm eating

Interlude 1
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
C C 
 
Bb Bb 
 
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
C C 
 
Gm Gm 
 
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
C C 
 
Gm Gm 
 
C C 
 
Gm Gm 
 
F F 
 
C C 
 
Cm Cm 
 
C C 
 
Gm Gm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
Gm Gm 
 
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
D D 
 
F F 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C

Verse 5
Gm Gm 
 
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
You get all hot and bothered
C C 
 
G G 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
At the strangest times and places
G G 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
But don't notice the looks
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
C C 
 
on all the other faces
Eb Eb 
 
F F 
 
You're dressed for sum mer in
C C 
 
Eb Eb 
 
F F 
 
the middle of December
C C 
 
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
What you've all but forgotten
C C 
 
Gm Gm 
 
G G 
 
Gm Gm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
C C 
 
I painfully remem ber
D D 
 
I  don't care in the least what
G G 
 
you're reading
Gm Gm 
 
Please don't talk

Verse 6

about murder while

I'm eat ing

Outro 1

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