George Harrison and Eric Clapton - While my guitar gently weeps

Good morning my RP Brothers and Sisters !!! It is Hump Day!!!

For my first Hump Day Music Interlude I selected a song by George Harrison and Eric Clapton titled "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"!!! But just look at the great musicians performing:

George Harrison: Voice & Guitar
Eric Clapton: Guitar (a Les Paul)
Jeff Lynne: Guitar
Phil Collins: Drums
Ringo Starr: Drums
Ray Cooper: Percussion
Mark King: Bass
Elton John: Piano
Jool Holland: Piano

Great ensemble to say the very least!!!

LYRICS:

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

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

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

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

Well...

I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you

I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping
[LOVE version:] I look from the wings at the play you are staging.
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all
[LOVE version:] As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging
Still my guitar gently weeps

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, ooh

Side Notes:

George Harrison decided to write this song when he studied "I Ching", the Chinese book of changes. One of the concepts there is that everything in the world is related. So, he opened a random book, saw a random couple or words—which happened to be "gently weeps"—and began to write a song.

This song features Eric Clapton on a lead guitar. He was invited to the studio by George Harrison to ease the tense atmosphere in the band. Harrison later said, "It was good because that then made everyone act better. Paul got on the piano and played a nice intro, and they all took it more seriously."

Originally this song was an acoustic ballad where George Harrison played a guitar and Paul McCartney an organ. That version is included in the compilation "Anthology 3" (1996).

A singer-songwriter Donovan, who was the band's friend and accompanied them during their visit to India to study Transcendental Meditation, said that he showed George Harrison some of his chord structures, one of which was eventually used in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".