Biography:
Richard Shindell (born 3 August 1960, Lakehurst, New Jersey) is an American folk singer. While dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and New York's Hudson Valley, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, and juxtapose ideas and images.
Shindell's songwriting often involves storytelling from a first-person point of view: for example, from an INS officer and illegal immigrant in "Fishing", to a World War II soldier in "Sparrows Point"
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Other songs:
- A Juggler Out In Traffic
- A Summer Wind A Cotton Dress
- A Tune For Nowhere
- Acadian Driftwood
- Are You Happy Now
- Arrowhead
- Beyond The Iron Gate
- Blue Divide
- By Now
- Castaway
- Darkness Darkness
- Deportee
- Easy Street
- Fishing
- Gethsemani Goodbye
- Gray Green
- I Saw My Youth Today
- Ill Be Here In The Morning
- Last Fare Of The Day
- Lawrence Ks
- May
- Money For Floods
- Northbound 35
- On A Sea Of Fleur
- Parasol Ants
- Reunion Hill
- Sing Me Back Home
- Smiling
- So Says The Whippoorwill
- Sparrows Point
- Spring
- State Of The Union
- Storms Are On The Ocean
- Summer Wind A Cotton Dress
- The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen
- The Courier
- The Kenworth Of My Dreams
- The Last Fare Of The Day
- The Next Best Western
- The Things That I Have Seen
- The Weather
- Transit
- Tv Light
- Waiting For The Storm
- Wisteria
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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
[email protected]
(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.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wisteria
-Richard Shindell (Somewhere Near Paterson)
(free finger-picking )
Em/addG D C G
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
Em/addG D C G
let's not drive away just yet
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
Give me a mo- ment more
Em/addG D C/G G
to walk through those rooms again
Em/addG D
to walk through that door
Em/addG D C G
if we turn off the radio
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
i've only to close my eyes
Em/addG D C/addG G
and the wind in the sycamores
Em/addG D
will carry me home
G C/addG
the vine of my memory
G C/addG
is blooming around those eaves
G C/addG Em/addG D C/addG
but it's true it's a chore to tame wis - ter- ia
Em/addG D C/addG
wis - ter- ia
Em/addG D C G
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 C G
remember the price we paid?
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
it seemed like a lot back then
Em/addG D C/addG G
remember the love we made
Em/addG D
the day we moved in?
G C/addG
the vine of my memory
G C/addG
is blooming around those eaves
G C/addG Em/addG D C/addG
but it's true it's a chore to tame wis - ter - ia
Em/addG D C/addG
wis - ter- ia
(solo)
Em/addG D C G
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
Em/addG D C/addG G
Em/addG D
Em/addG D C G
it did need some pruning back
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7 D
and i know that it's not my place
Em/addG D C/addG G
but how could they just cut it down
Em/addG D
and leave not a trace?
Em/addG D C G
let's not drive away just yet
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
give me a mo - ment more
Em/addG D C G
to walk through those dreams again
Em/addG D
to walk through that door
G C/addG
the vine of my memory
G C/addG
still blooms all around those eaves
G C/addG Em/addG D C/addG
and it's true it's a chore to tame wis - te - ria
Em/addG D C/addG
wis - te - ria
Em/addG D C/addG
wis - te - ria
Em/addG D C/addG G
wis - te - ria
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
[email protected]
(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.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wisteria
-Richard Shindell (Somewhere Near Paterson)
(free finger-picking )
Em/addG D C G
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
Em/addG D C G
let's not drive away just yet
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
Give me a mo- ment more
Em/addG D C/G G
to walk through those rooms again
Em/addG D
to walk through that door
Em/addG D C G
if we turn off the radio
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
i've only to close my eyes
Em/addG D C/addG G
and the wind in the sycamores
Em/addG D
will carry me home
G C/addG
the vine of my memory
G C/addG
is blooming around those eaves
G C/addG Em/addG D C/addG
but it's true it's a chore to tame wis - ter- ia
Em/addG D C/addG
wis - ter- ia
Em/addG D C G
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 C G
remember the price we paid?
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
it seemed like a lot back then
Em/addG D C/addG G
remember the love we made
Em/addG D
the day we moved in?
G C/addG
the vine of my memory
G C/addG
is blooming around those eaves
G C/addG Em/addG D C/addG
but it's true it's a chore to tame wis - ter - ia
Em/addG D C/addG
wis - ter- ia
(solo)
Em/addG D C G
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
Em/addG D C/addG G
Em/addG D
Em/addG D C G
it did need some pruning back
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7 D
and i know that it's not my place
Em/addG D C/addG G
but how could they just cut it down
Em/addG D
and leave not a trace?
Em/addG D C G
let's not drive away just yet
Em/addG D C/addG Cmaj7/addG D
give me a mo - ment more
Em/addG D C G
to walk through those dreams again
Em/addG D
to walk through that door
G C/addG
the vine of my memory
G C/addG
still blooms all around those eaves
G C/addG Em/addG D C/addG
and it's true it's a chore to tame wis - te - ria
Em/addG D C/addG
wis - te - ria
Em/addG D C/addG
wis - te - ria
Em/addG D C/addG G
wis - te - ria
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