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Act Of Contrition

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Hello.... I took about 2 hours and improved the chords to this song. Everything is
more thorough, and all the chord changed are exact, I just finished listening to the song.
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The chords used in this song are relative to a capo on the 1st fret:
......C....Csus2/B...Am.......F.......G.......
e|----0-------0-------0-------1-------3------|
B|----1-------1-------1-------1-------3------|
G|----0-------0-------2-------2-------0------|
D|----2-------0-------2-------3-------0------|
A|----3-------2-------0-------0-------2------|
E|----x-------x-------x-------x-------3------|
song; the bass notes being plucked with the thumb and the highest four strings are strummed;
.....C..........Csus2/B....Am..........................
e|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------0-0-0------------------|
B|-------1-1-1------1-1-1------1-1-1------------------| INTRO:
G|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------2-2-2------------------| <--- 4x
D|-------2-2-2------0-0-0------2-2-2--3p2h3p2h3p2-----| <--- note that
A|---3----------2----------0--------------------------| 3p2h3p2h3p2
E|----------------------------------------------------| is copied
throughout the
WHOLE song.
This main theme is the repeated through the verse...
C  Csus2/ B  Am  
The air was all dust
3p2h3p2h3p2 C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
A night so untamed
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
Csus2/ B  Am  
The ground opened up and swallowed, all of the rain
3p2h3p2h3p2 C  Csus2/ B  Am  
And it swallowed you too...
3p2h3p2h3p2 C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
Into distance unknown
C  Csus2/ B   Am(let ring)
As Fthey sat down for dinner they waited for you to get home
Yeah, they set a.G..place for you.
C  Csus2/ B   Am(let ring)
So don't...Gbe....lieve everything that you read, in that...diary of
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
yours.
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2 C  
AmAnd this... ner – vous - ness,
3p2h3p2h3p2 C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
It isn't... all your fault
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
It's just these sha - king hands won't do
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
what I want them ... to.
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
And I've tried to guess what it,
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
Is you thought about
C  Csus2/ B   Am(let ring)
That Fact of contrition that rolled off our tongues as you wept.
What are you.G..crying for?
C  Csus2/ B   Am(let ring) F  
Just dust...my heart and you will find
There are no fingerGs printed there
C  Csus2/ B   Am(let ring) F  
Just the un...touched...place that lies inside
G   C  Csus2/ B   Am  
3p2h3p2h3p2
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
C Csus2/B Am 3 – 2 - 0 <--- notice this change on the D string.
.....C..........Csus2/B....Am..................F.......
e|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------0-0-0-----------1------|
B|-------1-1-1------1-1-1------1-1-1-----------1------|
G|-------0-0-0------0-0-0------2-2-2-----------2------|
D|-------2-2-2------0-0-0------2-2-2--3--2--0--3------|
A|---3----------2----------0-------------------0------|
E|---------------------------------------------x------|
F (4 bars)
G (3 bars, and on the offbeat before the 4th bar: “And Gall.....”, so that you
on “all” with the G chord, signifying that “all” is the 4th bar
G   C  Csus2/ B   Am(let ring)
AnFd all this o... pen ...air has caused me to choke
G   C  Csus2/ B  
3p2h3p2h3p2
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2
C  Csus2/ B   Am3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2.
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