How to play "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on guitar by George Harrison with guitar tab

June 7, 2025

Sharifu

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Not too long ago, an animated film called Kubo and The Two Strings practically revived “While My Guitar Gentle Weeps” with its story that was admittedly inspired by the song. The main character plays guitar and does a great rendition of this song creating what I’ll simply call “origami magic” - clearly from the line “nobody told you how to unfold your love.” This is me trying to learn this one. I would say 14 days is a good amount of time to really get a song performable…

Originally the song gained popularity from the Beatles performing it but it was written by George Harrison.

As far as guitar performances of this song go, perhaps none are as exciting as the one with Prince playing alongside The Beatles. Brace yourself :)

how to play “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” On Guitar

There are many ways to play this, ranging from easy using just chords to complex fingerpicking.

Easy Mode (chords)

Medium Difficulty (chord melody)

HARD MODE (not a lesson)

Lyrics and Tab

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[Verse 1]

I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping

While my guitar gently weeps

I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping

Still, my guitar gently weeps

[Bridge]

I don't know why nobody told you

How to unfold your love

I don't know how someone controlled you

They bought and sold you

[Verse 2]

I look at the world and I notice it's turning

While my guitar gently weeps

With every mistake, we must surely be learning

Still, my guitar gently weeps

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]

I don't know how you were diverted

You were perverted, too

I don't know how you were inverted

No one alerted you