Eric Clapton - Blue Eyes Blues guitar chord

Person: Andy Threadgold

song: Blue Eyes Blue

artist: Eric (Master & God) Clapton

tab: The The song goes as follows

Verse:

B F# A#m E(4th fret)

I thought that you'd been loving me

B F# A#m E(open position)

In your eyes I thought I saw my heaven

B F# A#m E B F# E

But now my heavens gone away and I'm out in the cold

Pre chorus:

B(7th)

But you were only playing

B F#(6th) E(4th) F#

You were only playing with my heart

B

I was never waiting

B F#(6th fret) E(4th) F#

I was never waiting for the tears to start

Chorus:

Asus4 E(m) F#m D5

It was you, who put the clouds around me

Asus4 E F#m D5

It was you, who made the tears fall down

Asus4 E F#m D5

Only you, who put these clouds around me

Asus4 E F#m D5

It was you, It was you, who made my blue eyes blue

Asus4 E F#m D Asus4

Oh oh, never should have trusted you

I thought that I'd be all you need

In your eyes I thought I saw forever

And now forever's come and gone

And I'm still here alone

pre chorus:

You had me believing

You had me believing in a life

I could never see it

I could never see it till I saw good bye

It was you....etc

This song has a pretty tricky fingerpicked rhythm, especially on the

pre chorus where you have to slide

down the fretboard playing the chords in their barred C shapes in a

fluid motion.

For all the eric anoraks like myself, the rhythm is like that that he

uses on Brokenhearted when played live (eg Music for Monserrat)

For the authentic tone, go and buy a 000-28EC Martin Acoustic,

according to Eric they are the best acoustic guitars ever made. I have

one and I agree.

Comments complaints and suggestions to Andy. ha6316@qmw.ac.uk

Cheers