Lilac Wine tab by Jeff Buckley

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 D7 instead of D.

Gm
I lost myself on a ...
Eb
Gave myself in that ...
D7                  Cm
Was hypnotized by a ...
D7            Gm
Under a ...
Gm
I made wine from ....
Eb
Put my heart in ...
Cm(*)
It makes me see what ...
D7                    Gm
And be what I ....
Gdim                     C
When I think ...
Cm                       Gm
Do things I ....
Gdim                     C
I drink much more ...
Cm                       G       D7
Because I brings ....

G      G7

G     G7      C         D7             G            G7
Lilac wine is sweet and ....
C           Dm G  C         Dm     G       C
Lilac wine,       I feel ....
Eb                            D7
Listen to me... I ...
D7                          Am7     D7
Isn't that she coming ....

And repeat as necessary.

The final progression is just:

G   G7           C    D7            G         G7
  Lilac Wine, I feel ....
           C    Cm    D7       G
I feel unready       ....


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
E  |---|---|-4-|---|              |---|---|---|---|
B  |---|-2-|---|---|              |---|-1-|---|---|
G  |---|---|-3-|---|              |---|---|-4-|---|
D  |---|-1-|---|---|              |---|---|-3-|---|
A  |---|---|---|---|              |(1)|---|---|---|
E  |---|---|---|---|              |---|---|-2-|---|
     2   3   4    5                 3   4   5    6

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

Happy playing.


mh