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Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net  Alice Franceschini
Date: July 25, 2003   
Album:
Written by:

            WHAT A SHAME   Rebecca Lynn Howard
Intro all B

F#                    E                B   
Phone rings 2 am   Oh no here we go a-gain
     F#                           E                 B            
It's you on my caller ID in the middle of castraso-phry
B                    E         F#    B                  E 
How many times can your heart break I've heard all that I can take
CHORUS:
         B         F#                       E            F#              B 
What a shame the whole world didn't stop turning it's burning you up in-side
B                  E            B            B    F#             E
Too bad you're so full of  -  pride  What a pity no body under-stands you  
       F#      E         F#                B      
A complicated man who  knows he's always right
         E                       F#   
What a shame what a pity what a pity what a shame
         E                       F#           B
What a shame what a pity what a pity what a shame


F#                                  E                          B      
Like Tom cruise and Russell Crow Hollywood's where you should go "mmmm"
 F#                               E                       B       
Lord knows you've got the act A drama king and that's a fact "mmmm"
B                   E       F#  B            E
How many times can one sky fall I can't take another call
to chorus
                                                    play like this
 D#                               E         E+    ( E=779997 E+=X8999X )
Some people can never learn and that's too bad
C#                                 F#
You can't get it through your head I don't want you back
         B                E
What a shhhhaaaaaamm - mmeeeeee
to lead, "Oh oh oh wo what a pity what shame  What a pity what a shame"
STOP    n.c.                  B E   F#                 B
        What a shhhhaaanmmmmme     burning you up in-side
B                  E            B             B   F#             E
Too bad you're so full of  -  pride  What a pity no body under-stands you  
    F#         E        F#                 B
A complicated man who  knows he's always right
          B                            E                        B  
What a shhhammmmme (shame shame) Lord Lord (Lord Lord) What a pity
          B                             E                      B
What a shhhammmmme (shame shame) Lord Lord (Lord Lord) What a pity
         E                        F#
What a shame what a pity what a pity what a shame
         E                       F#  n.c.                 B
What a shame what a pity what a pity what a shame "ow"