Songs > While My Guitar Gently Weeps

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

(Harrison)

Song background
George was reading the Chinese book I Ching (the book of changes) when he decided that his songwriting would start to be written based on chance. He took a book off the shelf intending to write a song based on the first words he read, which were "gently weeps".

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• Eric Clapton plays lead guitar, uncredited

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Originally included an extra verse which said, "I look from the wings at the play you are staging/while I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging," which appear in the demo version found on Anthology 3 as well as Love.

Notable covers

• Jeff Healy Band (from Hell To Pay)