
John had been working on this composition since 1969. It wasn't until 1989 that it was released on the album "God, Time, and Causality". This is a rendition based off of the song "Wine & Roses" According to the sleeve notes on his third release, "The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites" he came up with the tune after hearing Mancini's "Days of Wine and Roses" on the radio and tried to play it from memory.
John played this in an unusual tuning: Open D Minor Tuning (D A D F A D).