While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I have performed this version of the song since I heard it back in the 70s.
There is a lot of orchestration in Rankin's version, but this chord grouping seems to hold it all together.
Am Am/G D9/F# FM7
I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping
Am G D E
While my guitar gently weeps.
Am Am/G D9/F# FM7
I look at the floor, and I see it needs sweeping,
Am G D E
Still my guitar gently weeps.
AM7 C#m F#m C#m Cdim
I don't know why nobody told you
Bm Bm7(b5) E
How to unfold your love.
AM7 C#m F#m C#m Cdim
I don't know how someone controlled you,
Bm Bm7(b5) E
They bought and sold you.
Am Am/G D9/F# FM7
I look at the world and I notice it's turning,
Am G D E
While my guitar gently weeps.
Am Am/G D9/F# FM7
With every mistake, we must surely be learning,
Am G C E
Still my guitar gently weeps.
AM7 C#m F#m C#m Cdim
I don't know how you were diverted,
Bm Bm7(b5) E
You were perverted too.
AM7 C#m F#m C#m Cdim
I don't know how ▲ you were inverted,
Bm Bm7(b5) E
No-one alerted you.
Am Am/G D9/F# FM7
I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping,
Am G D E
While my guitar gently weeps.
Am Am/G D9/F# F
I look at you all
Am G C E
Still my guitar gently weeps.
