Lilac Wine

(written by J. Shelton)

LILAC WINE -- Chord Chart and Tab
[Originally posted by Michael Harris, May 20 1996]

** "LILAC WINE" CHORD CHART **

This is my user-friendly chord map to "LW".  It is not too far from John
Pollock's earlier tab of this, but there are some variations,
particularly

the diminished chord and the  instead of .

Verse 

I lost myself 

on a cool damp

 night

Gave myself in

 that misty li

ght
            
Was hypnotized

      
 by a strange 

delight
            
Under a lilac 


tree

I made wine fr

om the lilac t

ree

Put my heart i

n its recipe

It makes me se

e what I want 

to see...
            
And be what I 

        
want to be
          
When I think m

           
ore than I wan

t to think
            
Do things I ne

           
ver should do
          
I drink much m

           
ore than I oug

ht to drink
            
Because I brin

             
gs me back you

     
...

[Instrumental]       

Chorus
           
Lilac wine is 

           
sweet and head

             
y, like my lov

          
e
           
Lilac wine,   

            
    I feel uns

           
teady, like my

 
 love
            
Listen to me..

              
. I cannot see

  
 clearly
            
Isn't that she

              
 coming to me 

     
nearly here?

And repeat as necessary.
The final progression is just:

           
  Lilac Wine, 

           
I feel unready

                 
 for my love
             
I feel unready

          
       for my 

   
love...


[Notes]
>The C minor chord marked with the * is actually a bit more involved
(complicated?) if you look at the tab, as it has an A in the bass.  This
actually makes it, I think, an "A minor 7 diminished 5", but don't quote me!!
>Diagrams for the G diminished chord and the Am7dim5 are below:
alternatively see the tab.
>To get the "muted jazzy feel" John Pollock referred to in his post,
without being confined to barre chords (which are difficult and also are
not what I have tabbed out below for the most part), I suggest using the
thumb and fingers of the right (picking) hand rather than a plectrum, to
"stroke" the strings.

Chords

     G diminis
e|  |---|---|-
B|  |---|-2-|-
G|  |---|---|-
D|  |---|-1-|-
A|  |---|---|-
E|  |---|---|-
     2   3   4

hed           
4-|---|       
--|---|       
3-|---|       
--|---|       
--|---|       
--|---|       
    5         

         Am7di
       |---|--
       |---|-1
       |---|--
       |---|--
       |(1)|--
       |---|--
        3   4 

m5 I think
-|---|---|
-|---|---|
-|-4-|---|
-|-3-|---|
-|---|---|
-|-2-|---|
  5    6

                                 [to make this a Cminor, just play the (1)
                                  on
                                  the 5th string rather than the 2 on the
                                  6th, OK]

** "LILAC WINE" COMPLETE TAB **
This is actually fairly easy and quite fun to play.  As best I can
figure
it, this is what I think is actually played on the "Grace" album.  At
least, it's pretty darn close...

Standard tuning!!  (What a shock!)  I'm just going to tab out the
individual chords, not the rhythm or anything.  Y'all can figure that out
yourselves. (If you are training your ear, a good exercise is to figure
out which chord below goes where in the song.)

 *[Introductio
e|--3---------
B|--3---4---3-
G|--3---0---5-
D|--5---5---4-
A|--5---6---5-
E|------------

n]
--------------
--4---3---3---
--5---5---3---
--5---4---5---
--3---5---5---
--------------

--------------
4---4---3---3-
0---5---5---3-
5---5---4---5-
6---X---5---5-
----5---------

---|
---|
---|
---|
---|
---|

e|---4--------
B|---3---5---4
G|---4---5---5
D|---3---5---5
A|-------3---3
E|------------

-------4------
---3---3---5--
---3---4---5--
---5---3---5--
---5-------3--
--------------

--------------
-4------------
-5------------
-5---5---4----
-3---5---5----
--------------

|
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|
|
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|

*"Lilac wine..." bit

e|---3---3---0
B|---0---0---1
G|---0---0---0
D|---0---0---2
A|---2---2---3
E|---3---1---X

---2---3---3--
---1---0---0--
---2---0---0--
---0---0---0--
-------2---2--
---X---3---1--

-0---1---3---0
-1---3---0---1
-0---2---0---0
-2---0---0---2
-3-------2---3
-X-------3----

----|
----|
----|
----|
----|
----|

e|---1---3---0
B|---3---0---1
G|---2---0---0
D|---0---0---2
A|-------2---3
E|-------3----

--------------
---8---3---5--
---8---5---5--
---8---4---5--
---6---5---7--
--------------

---------|
-3-------|
-5-------|
-4-------|
-5-------|
---------|

Now, I'll leave the final progression up to you since it's just a
variation on the above, and the chord chart I provided gives the
essential
information.
The one variation through the song that might be worth noting is that on
the second run through, when we get to "sweet and heady", halfway
through
the D7 bit, Jeff adds a suspension which should be pretty apparent when
you hear it (I'm providing the "rhythm" in the tab below):

e|-----2--2--3
B|-----1--1--1
G|-----2--2--2
D|-----0--0--0
A|------------
E|------------

--3---|
--1---|
--2---|
--0---|
------|
------|

Happy playing.