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While my Guitar Gently Weeps
By: LB123 Date: March 22, 2019, 9:04 am
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This song has always been a fav group jamming song.....it has
the potential for great dynamics, piles of improvisation in
leads with varying instruments.....and can be lengthened in the
outro with leads as long as we want........even the rhythm is
fun to play throughout the whole song without getting
bored....it has a nice tempo so that leads aren't too
frantic...and the percussion groove could remain constant
through the whole song I think
Its key flips between chorus and verse.....Am in verse, Amaj in
chorus (a songwriting choice that in Eric Clapton's biography
he made note of stealing from George Harrison.....man - Clapton
stole a lot from George Harrison)
all those weird chords in the verse can really just be played as
a bass walkdown over the Am chord....any other complex chords
are more embellishments than a prescribed "must play of the song
sounds wrong"
I want to play electric leads on this so badly :-).....I've
never sang it - but happy to give it a try
here's the chords / lyrics
C
E
A
D
G
B
E
1 of 15
[Chords]
Am x02210 G 320003 A x02220
Am/G 3x2210 D xx0232 C#m x46654
F#m7b5 2x2210 E 022100 F#m 244222
Fmaj7 1x2210 C x32010 Bm x24432
Dsus4 xx0233 Dsus2 xx0230
Esus4 022200
[Intro]
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
Am G D E
[Verse 1]
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping
Am G D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D Esus4 E
While my guitar gently weeps
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
I look at the floor, and I see it needs sweeping
Am G C E
Still my guitar gently weeps
[Chorus 1]
A C#m F#m C#m
I don't know why nobody told you
Bm E Esus4 E
How to unfold your love
A C#m F#m C#m
I don't know how someone controlled you
Bm E Esus4 E
They bought and sold you
[Verse 2]
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
I look at the world, and I notice it's turning
Am G D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D Esus4 E
While my guitar gently weeps
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Am G C E
Still my guitar gently weeps
[Intrumental]
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
Am G D E
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
Am G C E
[Chorus 2]
A C#m F#m C#m
I don't know how you were diverted
Bm E Esus4 E
You were perverted too
A C#m F#m C#m
I don't know how you were inverted
Bm E Esus4 E
No one alerted you
[Verse 3]
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping
Am G D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D Esus4 E
While my guitar gently weeps
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
Look at you all...
Am G C E
Still my guitar gently weeps
[Outro]
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
Am G D E
Am Am/G F#m7b5 Fmaj7
Am G C E
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