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Blood Like Wine

Balthazar

RockAdvanced for beginners8 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

FmDiagram coming soon
D××
A×
E
F
Dm××
F#mDiagram coming soon
BDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Great song, shocked to see it was not yet tabbed! Here are the chords: 
 
 
In short: 
 
Verse:   A - D (last chord Dm) 
Chorus:  Fm - B - Dm - A (last chord D) 
Outro:   Fm - D - A - E - (F) 
 
 
 
 
VERSE 
 
A                             D 
  How long            since I got some sleep 
A                             D 
  How long since she grew her hair to keep 
A                             D 
  The night      from getting colder for 
A                             D        Dm 
  The owl     living upon her shoulder 
 
 
F#m                    B                   Dm        A 
  'Cause one way or the other she will      drink my blood like wine 
F#m                    B                   Dm        A 
  The only question   left is whether that day the   horns will sound 
F#m                    B                   Dm        A 
  And one way or the    other it will       keep me  dragging on 
                    D 
  For hell knows how long 
 
 
VERSE 
 
A                          D 
  And now the carnival band is gone 
A                                                      D 
  This land reaching from the riverside where it begins to the hour where it ends    
                Dm 
  It belongs to me or at least that's what she pretends 
 
 
 
F#m                    B                   Dm        A 
  'Cause one way or the other she will      drink my blood like wine 
F#m                    B                   Dm        A 
  The only question   left is whether that day the   horns will sound 
F#m                    B                   Dm        A 
  And one way or the    other it will       keep me  dragging on 
                    D 
  For hell knows how long 
 
 
OUTRO 
 
F#m                                          D 
  Like the oldest was sent ahead of the other 
                               A 
  In the middle of a small town where everybody sleeps with friend and enemy 
     E                (F)  F#m 
  one after the other 
 
F#m                                          D 
  Yeah baby     that's where we were         born for each other 
A                E                 (F) F#m 
 
 
F#m               D                            A 
  Raise your glass to the nighttime and the ways 
     E                               (F)  F#m 
  To choose a mood and have it replaced 
   
 
  repeat 6x 
 
 
Thank you! 
          
 

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Chord set

Fm · D · A · E · F · Dm · F#m · B

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.