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Song title:      Mea Culpa
Original Album:	 Keepsake

Words and Music by Elizabeth Ziman
Copyright © 2017 Elizabeth Ziman and Compass Records
Published by EZiman Publishing (ASCAP)

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
B   x2444x    G#m  466444
F#  244322    E    x7999x

[play:]  [x2]

  B               F#                G#m                     E
|---------------------------------|-4-------4-------4---------------|
|-4-------4-------2-------2-------|-4-------4-------4-------9-------|
|-4-------4-------3-------3-------|-4-------4-------4-------9-------|
|-4-------4-------4-------4-------|-6-------6-------6-------9-------|
|-2-------2-------4-------4-------|-6-------6-------6-------7-------|
|-----------------2-------2-------|-4-------4-------4---------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |




VERSE1:
Chords:
B    x24442    C#m  x46654    F#7  242322
F#   244322    D#   x6888x
G#m  466444    C#m7 x46454
E    x7999x    D#7  x68686


| B       F#        | G#m  E | B             F#           | G#m  C#m
    I am imagining a  man,       sits like a statue at his  type-writer

                          | E                | D#   C#m  F#        | B
Trying to think how to be - gin and write his  wife         a final  letter


| %             F#               | G#m  E |
    "If you are reading this, I'm  gone,

| B                       F#       | G#m           C#m
    They locked me up and threw the  keys away, my love

| %                     | E                          | D#  C#m  F#
  Though, it's true what  I have done, I am still the  man,

            | B   F# | G#m  E | B F# | G#m  E |
The man that  I was.


| B         F#              | G#m   E | B       F#           | G#m           C#m7
    "I am a sinner now, it's  true,       a mea culpa for the  time I wasted you

| %                 E                         | D#7  C#m7  F#7
    I swear I never hurt a fly, I'm gonna miss  you,

                      | G   | Em      | A            E
Love and kisses, good - bye,     good - bye, goodby_____ye!"





CHORUS1:
Chords:
B    x2444x    F#m  244222    C#7  x46464
D#m  x68876    C#   x4666x    G#m7 464444 or 4x444x
G#m  466444    E    022100    Em   022000

 
           | B           D#m  | G#m         F#m       | C#             E       | B
'Cos there's plenty more bad mistakes, that I'll still  make before we come un - done


     D#m     | G#m         F#m       | C#7             E     | B
More bad mis - takes, that I'll still  make, it's our idea of  fun

     D#      | G#m         F#m       | C#7            E    
More bad mis - takes, that I'll still  make as our condition

| B      D#m     | G#m        F#m  | C#     G#m7   | Em         | B
    More bad mis - takes, for us to  make before we  fuck it all  up



[play: 4/4| B F# | G#m E |]  [x2]





VERSE3:
Chords:
B    x24442    E   x7999x
G#m  466444    D#  x6888x
C#m  x46654    F#7 242323

| B                       | G#      E | B                        | G#m         E
    A woman sitting at her  window,     thinking her son is going  straight to hell now

| F#m                   E                         | D#    C#m7  F#7           B
    Praying to God what have I done, my boy's going down, down, down, down to devil


| B                               | G#m     E | B                       | G#m
    He called to say, "I'm getting  married       to a nice fellow I met  in the navy

| C#m                     | E
      And now I'm proud to  say, "I do.",

             | D#       G#m  D#m  C#m
With or with - out you,           with or without you,

                    | G#m                  | D#  E    G#m  G#  E
With or without you,  mother, with or with - out you__ou___ou_____

| N.C.
  And your goddamned blessing."



PIANO INTERLUDE:
Notes:
Played lento (slower)

Chords:
B    x24442    E    x7999x
G#m  466444    F#m  244222
F#   244322    Em   022000
C#   x46664


[play: 4/4| B | G#m F# | C# E | B F# | G#m F#m | C# Em |]





CHORUS2:
Chords:
B    x2444x    F#m  244222    C#7 x46464
D#m  x68876    C#   x4666x    G#m7 464444 or 4x444x
G#m  466444    E    022100    Em   022000


            | B           D#m     | G#m         F#m       | C#             E       | B
'Cos there's  plenty more bad mis - takes, that I'll still  make before we come un - done


     D#m     | G#m         F#m       | C#              E     | B
More bad mis - takes, that I'll still  make, it's our idea of  fun

     D#m     | G#m    F#m | C#7           E    
More bad mis - takes,           as our condition of...


| B     | D#m     | G#m        F#m  | C#     G#m7    Em         | B
    More  bad mis - takes, for us to  make before we fuck it all  up



[repeat INTRO Figure]


[end on B]