Lilac Wine

by Jeff Buckley

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4.8 (46)

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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

Verse

I lost myself on a cool damp night

Gave myself in that misty light

Was hypnotized by a

strange delight

Under a lilac

tree

I made wine from the lilac tree

Put my heart in its recipe

It makes me see what I want to see...

And be what I want to

When I think more than I

want to think

Do things I never should

I drink much more than I

ought to drink

Because I brings me back

you...

Chorus

Lilac

wine is

sweet and

heady, like my

love

Lilac wine,

I feel uns

teady,

like my

love

Listen to me... I cannot see c

learly

Isn't that she coming to me

nearly h

ere?

And repeat as necessary.

The final progression is just:

lac Wine, I f

eel u

nready for my

love

I feel unre

ady

or my lov

e...

[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 diminished                    Am7dim5 I think
e|  |---|---|-4-|---|              |---|---|---|---|
B|  |---|-2-|---|---|              |---|-1-|---|---|
G|  |---|---|-3-|---|              |---|---|-4-|---|
D|  |---|-1-|---|---|              |---|---|-3-|---|
A|  |---|---|---|---|              |(1)|---|---|---|
E|  |---|---|---|---|              |---|---|-2-|---|
     2   3   4    5                 3   4   5    6

[to make this a Cminor, just play the (1)

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.