While My Guitar Gently Weeps Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays470

While My Guitar Gently Weeps by Kenny Rankin is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, Am/G, D9/F#, G, D, E, C#m, F#m, Cdim, Bm, Bm7(b5), C and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Am
Text
16
Speed
  			     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 â?²     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. 
    	

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100 BPM Andante