• Song:

    Wisteria

  • Artist:

    Richard Shindell

  • Album:

    Somewherer Near Paterso...

a few notes at the risk of being verbose:

i saw this song transcribed differently
on a website, with the capo on the 5th fret,
with the chords BmGDA, (and that's the way richard does it live
i believe) but i play along with the CD with no capo,
in the key of Em/G (i think that's right).
both ways sound right when played along with the CD,
but i like my way better.

just use an easy, free-picking style, listen to how richard plays,
 and you'll see what i mean.
 sorry, i don't write tab; i play by ear...
 but it's really quite simple.
 he adds a lot of hammer-ons and twiddly things in there.
really a pretty song.
comments, suggestions ?
feel free...
laura
mrspremise77@aol.com
(remember this is just my personal interpretation of the song.
 you don't like it, go buy the sheet music. if you can find it.)

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Wisteria
   -Richard Shindell (Somewhere Near Paterson)

(free finger-picking )
Em/addG   D (xx0232@1)         C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)Em/addG  D       C/addG Cmaj7/addG  D


Em/addG   D (xx0232@1)         C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)let's    not drive away just yet
Em/addG  D       C/addG Cmaj7/addG  D
 Give   me  a (x02210@1)   mo- ment       more
Em/addG  D (xx0232@1)              C/G (3x555x@1)   G (320003@1)to   walk through those rooms again
Em/addG D
 to     walk through that door

Em/addG   D (xx0232@1)            C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)if      we turn off the radio
Em/addG  D        C/addG  Cmaj7/addG D
 i've    only to    close      my    eyes
Em/addG     D (xx0232@1)         C/addG G (320003@1)and the wind in the sycamores
Em/addG   D
 will    carry me home

            G (320003@1)         C/addG
        the vine of my memory
            G (320003@1)       C/addG
        is blooming around those eaves
                 G (320003@1)          C/addG          Em/addG    D (xx0232@1)  C/addG
        but it's true it's achore (x02210@1) to tame  wis -  ter-  ia

           Em/addG    D (xx0232@1)  C/addG
        wis -  ter-  ia


Em/addG D (xx0232@1)       C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)i'm   tempted to ring the bell
Em/addG D      C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
 maybe  they'd     ask   me     in
Em/addG  D     C/addG
 or maybe it's just as well
Em/addG  D
 to just let it be

Em/addG D (xx0232@1)    C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1) remember the price we paid?
Em/addG D         C/addG Cmaj7/addG  D
 it seemed like  a  lot  back     then
Em/addG D (xx0232@1)    C/addG       G (320003@1)remember the love    we   made
Em/addG D
 the   day we moved in?

             G (320003@1)        C/addG
         the vine of my memory
             G (320003@1)       C/addG
         is blooming around those eaves
                  G (320003@1)         C/addG          Em/addG  D (xx0232@1)C/addG
         but it's true it's achore (x02210@1)to tame  wis -  ter - ia

             Em/addG    D (xx0232@1)  C/addG
          wis -  ter-  ia

(solo)
Em/addG   D (xx0232@1)         C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)Em/addG   D       C/addG Cmaj7/addG  D

Em/addG   D (xx0232@1)    C/addG       G (320003@1)Em/addG   D


Em/addG D (xx0232@1)         C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)it   did need some pruning back
Em/addG D (xx0232@1)           C/addG Cmaj7 (x32000@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D
 and i know that it's not    my   place
Em/addG D (xx0232@1)           C/addG           G (320003@1)but   how could they just   cut  it down
Em/addG D
 and  leave not a trace?

Em/addG D (xx0232@1)       C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)let's not drive away just yet
Em/addG D    C/addG Cmaj7/addG  D
 give   me amo (x02210@1)- ment        more
Em/addG D (xx0232@1)              C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)to   walk through those dreams again
Em/addG D
 to    walk through that door

              G (320003@1)        C/addG
          the vine of my memory
                G (320003@1)         C/addG
          still blooms all around those eaves
                   G (320003@1)         C/addG           Em/addG  D (xx0232@1) C/addG
          and it's true it's achore (x02210@1)to tame  wis -   te - ria
             Em/addG  D (xx0232@1) C/addG
          wis -   te - ria

             Em/addG  D (xx0232@1) C/addG
          wis -   te - ria

             Em/addG  D (xx0232@1) C/addG   G (320003@1)         wis -   te - ria

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