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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 D7D7 instead of D. G minorGm I lost myself on a ... Eb MajorEb Gave myself in that ... D7D7 C minorCm Was hypnotized by a ... D7D7 G minorGm Under a ... G minorGm I made wine from .... Eb MajorEb Put my heart in ... Cm(*) It makes me see what ... D7D7 G minorGm And be what I .... GdimGdim C majorC When I think ... C minorCm G minorGm Do things I .... GdimGdim C majorC I drink much more ... C minorCm G+G D7D7 Because I brings .... G+G G7G7 G+G G7G7 C majorC D7D7 G+G G7G7 Lilac wine is sweet and .... C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC DmDm G+G C majorC Lilac wine, I feel .... Eb MajorEb D7D7 Listen to me... I ... D7D7 Am7Am7 D7D7 Isn't that she coming .... And repeat as necessary. The final progression is just: G+G G7G7 C majorC D7D7 G+G G7G7 Lilac Wine, I feel .... C majorC C minorCm D7D7 G+G I feel unready ....
Notes: >The C majorC minor chord marked with the * is actually a bit more involved (complicated?) if you look at the tab, as it has an A augmentedA in the bass. This actually makes it, I think, an "A minor 7 diminished 5", but don't quote me!! >Diagrams for the G+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 E MajorE |---|---|-4-|---| |---|---|---|---| BB |---|-2-|---|---| |---|-1-|---|---| G+G |---|---|-3-|---| |---|---|-4-|---| D MajorD |---|-1-|---|---| |---|---|-3-|---| A augmentedA |---|---|---|---| |(1)|---|---|---| E MajorE |---|---|---|---| |---|---|-2-|---| 2 3 4 5 3 4 5 6 G+G diminished Am7dim5 I think [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.) *Introduction E--3--------------------------------------- B--3---4---3---4---3---3---4---4---3---3--- G--3---0---5---5---5---3---0---5---5---3-- D--5---5---4---5---4---5---5---5---4---5-- A--5---6---5---3---5---5---6---X---5---5-- E------------------------------5---------- E---4---------------4------------------ B---3---5---4---3---3---5---4---------- G---4---5---5---3---4---5---5---------- D---3---5---5---5---3---5---5---5---4-- A-------3---3---5-------3---3---5---5-- E--------------------------------------- *"Lilac wine..." bit E---3---3---0---2---3---3---0---1---3---0-- B---0---0---1---1---0---0---1---3---0---1--- G---0---0---0---2---0---0---0---2---0---0-- D---0---0---2---0---0---0---2---0---0---2-- A---2---2---3-------2---2---3-------2---3-- E---3---1---X---X---3---1---X-------3------ E---1---3---0--------------------- B---3---0---1---8---3---5---3----- G---2---0---0---8---5---5---5----- D---0---0---2---8---4---5---4----- A-------2---3---6---5---7---5----- E-------3-------------------------- 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 D7D7 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--3--- B-----1--1--1--1--- G-----2--2--2--2--- D-----0--0--0--0--- A------------------ E------------------ Happy playing. mh
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