Dear Nora - "Mistakes Are Not Between Us"
Track 15 from "Three States: Rarities 1997-2007" [Disc 2]

Tuning: Standard (EADGBE low to high)

(fingerpicked, pattern below)

G C/G G C/G G C/G G C/G

    G                 C/G                          G
The fall will hunt me down and cage me through the winter
    C/G                               G         C/G G    C/G
The states lined up between us we are safer, we are safer

G C/G G C/G G C/G

    G            C/G                       G
The sky is but a bridge connecting our two oceans
    C/G                                   G           C/G G      C/G
The land stretched out between us, we are waiting, we are waiting

G C/G G C/G G C/G

    G              C/G                       G
The sea begets the sun, the moon shines over rooftops
   C/G                              G         C/G G    C/G
Mistakes are not between us, we are safer, we are safer

G C/G G C/G G C/G

    G              C/G                       G
The sea begets the sun, the moon shines over rooftops
   C/G                              G         C/G G (hold)
Mistakes are not between us, we are wiser, we are wiser

Fingerpicking Pattern:

INTRO/BETWEEN VERSES:
   G       C/G     G       C/G     G       C/G     G       C/G
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-0---0---1---1---0---0---1---1---0---0---1---1---0---0---1---1-|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-0---0---2---2---0---0---2---2---0---0---2---2---0---0---2---2-|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
 (safer) <-last word of verse

VERSES:
    G                 C/G                           G
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--0---------0-------1---1-----1-------1-----------0-----0---------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--0---------0-------2---2-----2-------2-----------0-----0---------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--3----3----3----3--3-3-3-3---3----3--3-------3---3--3--3--3------------|The fall will hunt me down  and cage me through the winter   The

                                                         first chord of
   C/G                                G         C/G G <-BETWEEN VERSES sec.
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-1------------1----1---------1------0------0--1---0---------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-2------------2----2---------2------0------0--2---0---------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-3------3-----3--3-3-----3---3--3---3-3----3--3---3-3-------------------|
   states lined up between us, we are safer, we are safer

The Chords:

   G
E|-x-|
B|-0-|
G|-x-|
D|-0-|
A|-x-|
E|-3-|

  C/G
E|-x-|
B|-1-|
G|-x-|
D|-2-|
A|-x-|
E|-3-|

Transcribed by jacob
jacobjaffe@gmail.com