Act Of Contrition Chords

Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

The following pattern is played 4 times for the intro and also forms the main theme of

song; the bass notes being plucked with the thumb and the highest four strings are strummed;

throughout the

WHOLE song.

This main theme is the repeated through the verse...

 The air was all dCust Csus2 B Am

 3p2h3p2h3p2 C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

A night so untamed

  C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

 ThCsus2e grouBnd oAmpened up and swallowed, all of the rain

  3p2h3p2h3p2 C Csus2/B Am

And it swallowed you too...

  3p2h3p2h3p2 C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

Into distance unknown

C Csus2 B Am

 AsF they sat down for dinner they waited for you to get home

 Yeah, they set a.G..place for you.

C Csus2 B Am

 So don't...Gbe....lieve everything that you read, in that...diary of

  C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

yours.

C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2 C

  Am And this... ner – vous - ness,

  3p2h3p2h3p2 C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

It isn't... all your fault

  C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

It's just these sha - king hands won't do

  C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

what I want them ... to.

  C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

And I've tried to guess what it,

C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

Is you thought about

C Csus2 B Am

 That Fact of contrition that rolled off our tongues as you wept.

 What are you.G..crying for?

 Just dCust.Csus2..my B hAmeart and you willF find

 There are no fingerGs printed there

Of every...lonely boy...tonight.

C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

C Csus2/B Am 3 – 2 - 0 <--- notice this change on the D string.

F

 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

On your...new-found hope...for me.

C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2

C Csus2/B Am 3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2...3p2h3p2h3p2.

Let that last note ring out and that’s it.

THE END.