Eileen's song Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays478

Eileen's song by Burlap to Cashmere is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, B, E, C#, A2, B2 and C#2. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Eileen's song  
 
Intro: 
The keyboard starts the song out with a A, B, E, C#, A, B, E, A. 
 
First Chorus: 
A2                                B2 E                          C#2 
  You have one wing and I have another seeking shelter like sister and brother. 
A2                                B2 E                         A2 
  Through the winter and through the summer like one angel we'll fly far away. 
 
Verse 1: 
A2                        C#2 B2                     A2 
Hold my hand and we'll make it all right from this hell that we live in. 
A2                        C#2           B2                     A2 
Cross the road until the light comes inside and lives within. 
A2                        C#2           B2                     A2 
It's a long and lonesome ride when your friends have all gone home. 
A2                        C#2           B2                     A2 
But the roses in your eyes they pull me in so I don't feel alone. 
 
Chorus: repeat the top Chorus 
 
Verse 2: follow the same chord progression 
 
Sometimes I just can't help but cry when I think of what we've become. 
Like a soldier lost in the night forgetting all where he has come from. 
But the mud will soon become dry and the sun will rise again. 
And the shadows in our eyes will fade away down to lower plains. 
Cause'.... 
 
Chorus: repeat first Chorus chord progression 
 
(Repeat the Chorus 2 more times) 
 
Last part: follow the verse chord progression 
 
       A2       B2       E         C#2 
E------0--------0--------0---------0----- 
B------0--------0--------0---------0----- 
G------2--------4--------1---------6----- 
D------2--------4--------2---------6----- 
A------0--------2--------2---------4----- 
E------------------------0--------------- 
 
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante