(tabbed by James Purdy. This is my first tab so send comments, corrections, or hate mail
to alabaster21m@yahoo.com. This is a song I always wanted to learn but never found the
chords or was able to translate the original version on piano by Morrissey. However I
was able to translate an almost identical (Chord wise) acoustic version by Colin Meloy
on "Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey." I found help with lyrics from "It May All End Tomorrow"
at http:/www.compsac.man.ac.uk/~moz/ Help with defining chords at
http://www.hatbox.lib.virginia.edu/gtrchord/gtrchord Chords used listed at the bottom.
Morrissey
I've Changed My Plea to Guilty
from Viva Hate (UK) and My early Burglary Years
Intro:
(2X)
Verse 1:
I'm standing in the dock. With my innocent hand on my heart.
I've changed my plea. I've changed my plea to guilty.
Because freedom is wasted on me. See how your rules spoil the game?
Verse 2:
Outside there is a pain. Emotional air raids exhausted my heart,
and it's safer to be inside. So, I'm changing my plea,
and no one can dissuade me. Because freedom was wasted on me.
See how your rules spoil the game?
Verse 3:
Something I have learned, if there is one thing in life I've observed,
it's that everybody's got somebody. Ooh no, not me.
So I've changed my plea to guilty. And reason and freedom is a waste.
It's a lot like life.
Chords used:
0 x 0 x 0 x 1
1 x 1 x 1 0 1
0 0 2 0 3 1 2
2 0 2 0 2 2 3
3 2 0 0 3 2 3
x 3 x 2 x 0 1