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Adele is storming the charts and smashing records with her brand new hit Hello.

According to fans of his, the 27-year-old British star has ripped off lyrics from his 1970s hit Martha, with words similar although clearly not exactly the same.

His song has the same theme as hers: a former flame calling a past lover, and in the track he sings:

'Hello, hello there, is this 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, where we'll talk about it all.'

Adele's Hello begins in a similar way, as she croons: 'Hello, it's me / I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet / To go over, everything / They say that time's supposed to heal ya, but I ain't done much healing.'

While the words to each song aren't quite the same, there is a markedly similar theme.

Music lovers took to Twitter to remark on the similarities, with one fan writing: 'The new Adele song (which I've finally heard) is essentially just 'Martha' by Tom Waits tho isn't it.'

Another added: 'Adele's 'Hello' is pretty much another version of Tom Waits's 'Martha.''

'Just copped that Adele's Hello is a copy of Tom Waits' Martha,' another noted on the social networking site.