Jewel - You Were Meant For Me guitar tab

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:30:14 -0500

From: Eric Morin

Subject: Better tab version of Jewell song..

Here goes my attempt to tab You were meant for me by Jewell.

This is in fact my first tab, ever.

First tune down ony half step on all strings

~=is a little bendy thing

~ ~

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|--------3-----||--------3-----||--------1-----||--------0--1--||--------------|

|----0---------||----0---------||----0---------||----2---------||--------------|

|-----0--------||-----0--------||-----2--------||-----2--------||--------------|

|-3------------||-2------------||-3------------||--------------||--------------|

|--------------||--------------||--------------||-0------------||--------------|

There are a few variations on that last stanza, perhaps she alternates:

This one or This one

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|--------1--3--||--------3--1--||--------------||--------------||--------------|

|----2---------||----2---------||--------------||--------------||--------------|

|-----2--------||-----2--------||--------------||--------------||--------------|

|--------------||--------------||--------------||--------------||--------------|

|-0------------||-0------------||--------------||--------------||--------------|

Ta daa..

that's is, ain't too dificult.

the chords are something along the lines of a G6, C and Eminor,

but I am mostly an ear listener so I'm not too keen on chords beyone basics

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:34:13 -0800

From: Fredrik Molen

You where meant for me, by JEWEL from the album "Pieces of you"

E--------------------0----------------------

B---------------3-----------------3---------

G-------0------------------0----------------

D-----------0-------------------------------

A---3---------------------------------------

E-------------------------------------------

E---------------------------0---------------

B----------------------3----------------3---

G-----------0---------------------0---------

D-----------------0-------------------------

A-----2-------------------------------------

E-------------------------------------------

E----------------------------0-------------

B----------------------1-----------------1-

G-----------0----------------------0-------

D----------------2-------------------------

A-----3------------------------------------

E------------------------------------------

E-------------------------------0----------- (3) instead of (0) on the

light B------------------------0----------------0- "E"string every second

time

G-----------0------------------------0------

D-----------------0-------------------------

A-------------------------------------------

E-----3-------------------------------------

And the chorus; C, D, G, D/F#, Em,

C, D, Em

Stick; C D Bm D C - Bm - Am D Bm

Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 15:00:20 -0400

From: Shamu Naidu

You Were Meant for Me by Jewel

Tabbed by Shamu Naidu

E-mail: x95cjk@stfx.ca

To play along with the recorded version, I think you tune down half a step.

I'm not sure if my guitar was or not when I figured it out. I don't

remember how the whole song went but here's what I did figure out.

Verses

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-------|

--3----------------|--2----------------|--3-----------------|---------------

-----|

--------------------|--------------------|---------------------|------------

--------| Repeat

--------0----------|--------0----------|--------0------------|--------0-----

-----|

-----1---3-----3--|-----1---3-----3-|-----1---3-----3---|-----0---3-----3--|

-------------0-----|-------------0-----|-------------0-------|-------------0

-----|

Chorus

C D/F# G Step down Em

-0- -2- -3- -2-

-0-

-3- -0- -2- -0-

-2-

-2- -0- -0- -0-

-2-

-0- -2- -0- ----

-0-

-1- -3- -0- ----

-0-

-0- -2- -3- ----

-0-

Last time play C, D/F#, Em and then harmonics.

You Were Meant for Me

Off the album Pieces of YOU

Recorded by by Jewel Kilcher

Written by Jewel KIlcher

Transcribed by Jonathan Muise(muise@student.umass.edu)

and (Cooper@aol.com)

This song is quite beautiful. Jewel varies this throughout the song so my advice is to be a little loose about playing it.

here?s a list of the chords and their voicings:

A(sus4) C(Add9) D Em G D(inversion) Bm

002230 032030 000232 022000 320000 2002000 024432

Main Part of Song:

I hear the clock...

A(sus4) D Cadd9 Em

e----------0-------------0-------------0--------------0-------------

B--------3---3---------3---3---------3---3----------0---------------

G----2---------2---2---------2-----0-------0------0-----------------

D--2---2---------0---0-----------2--------------2-------------------

A------------------------------3--------------2---------------------

E-------------------------------------------------------------------

Chorus:

Dreams Last Oh so long....

Cadd9 D G D Em

e----------0-----------2-------------------------------0------------

B--------3---3-------3---3---3-------------------------0------------

G------0-------0---2-------2---------0-------2-------0--------------

D----2-----------0-----------------0-------0-------2----------------

A--3-----------------------------2-------0-------2------------------

E------------------------------3-------2-------0--------------------

Cadd9 D Em

e----------0-----------2---------------------------7h---------------

B--------3---3-------3---3---3-------------------7h---7h------------

G------0-------0---2-------2---------0---------7h-------------------

D----2-----------0-----------------2---2---2-7h---------------------

A--3-----------------------------2-------2--------------------------

E------------------------------0------------------------------------

Bridge:

I go about my buisness....

C D Bm Em

e----------0------------2---------------2---------------------------

B--------2---2--------3---3---3-------3---3---------0---------------

G------0-------0----2-------2-------4-------4-----0-----------------

D----2------------0---------------4-------------2-------------------

A--3----------------------------2-------------2---------------------

E-------------------------------------------------------------------

Jewel emphasises the open e string a lot in the song and lets it ring