My Fathers Eyes Intro Guitar Tab

		
		Ver 1 Ver 2 Ver 3 Ver 4 Ver 5 
	

Pilgrim Tabs:

Artist:Eric Clapton
Song:My Fathers Eyes
Tabber: Ethan Wallace
Intro lead:
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-4/6~~--9-8--9-9~~---11b13--r11-9/6~~4--9-8--9-9--6~--8/6/4/6~~----|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
Bridge
e|----------------------------------12-11-12-12~-----|
B|-12~--12b14--12~--9---------12---------------------|
G|---------------------11p9-9------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------|
Solo
e|------12---12-11-12-12~---14b16--12h14p12~~12-11-12-12-----------------------------|
B|-9/12--------------------------------------------------10/12-10-9/10-7-4/7/4-2/5/7-|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/c/clapton,_eric/348970.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture HAZARD Professional	#1 by HAZARD at Sep 26, 2007 at 2:21 PM EST
	Beautiful song, that's it. Hands Down

No Picture Lumière Average	#2 by Lumière Sara at Sep 26, 2007 at 5:26 PM EST
	I'm gonna guess its about god. But as much as i hate this crap music this song makes me cry almost becuz it was my moms favorite song and she died. i still listen to this song when i'm sad or mad or just thinkin about my mom!

No Picture Wes Wanna Be	#3 by Wes russell at Sep 28, 2007 at 11:02 PM EST
	the poetic phrasing in this song is absolutely beautiful. im not going to pick it apart to explain what i tihnk of it becuase theres so much to say about it and it doesnt say enough. however the general ide aof this song is that clapton is looking to his fathers eyes for guidance for how to b a father. no-one is ever prepared to become a father and clapton not knowing his father even less. this a deep soul searching for how to be a good father when he had no model to go by 1

No Picture /Alex / Pfluege Average	#4 by /Alex / Pflueger /(fox) / off road/ people/ at Sep 30, 2007 at 9:49 AM EST
	my dad's a prick.

No Picture Dylan Average	#5 by Dylan at Oct 1, 2007 at 9:40 AM EST
	Clapton wrote this song (along with "Tears in Heaven") in memory of his son, who died after falling out of their apartment's window. "I never met my father," Mr. Clapton told his biographer in 1985. "And I realized that the closest I ever came to looking into my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes." -- from an interview in The Ottawa Citizen

No Picture Mad Mark Rhythm Player	#6 by Mad Mark Rude at Oct 2, 2007 at 3:07 PM EST
	This song is obviously talking about Clapton's father in most parts of the song- he never knew his father. I think I read his mom was 17 when she had him. Until he was 9 years old he was told his mother was his sister and his grandparents were his parents. His father was already married to someone else when Clapton was concieved. Clapton's father was a Canadian pilot I believe.

No Picture Oliver Average	#7 by Oliver Russ at Oct 3, 2007 at 8:11 AM EST
	Correct. Clapton is trying to say that because he never knew his own father, he does not have the experience of having a father-son relationship. As a result, he cannot have this sort of bond with his own son because he doesn't know how to do it. "How do I teach him? What do we play?" Bit by bit, he realizes the importance of having such a relationship with his own father when his son comes into this world. But the realization comes pretty much too late. The realization comes when hard times come for him and his son ("the jagged edge appears through a distant cloud of tears").

No Picture Aron Wanna Be	#8 by Aron Georgsson at Oct 3, 2007 at 10:26 PM EST
	I always think of my father when I hear this song.. Would always play it when I was living with him... Eric Clapton is someone that I could never get old of... Truly an artist and this song is truly beautiful !

No Picture Mat Average	#9 by Mat Hancock at Oct 4, 2007 at 1:00 AM EST
	This song maked Eric Clapton first new song off an album aince 1989's Journeyman album (excluding Change The World EP and Tears In Heaven)

No Picture Tyler Average	#10 by Tyler at Oct 4, 2007 at 10:47 AM EST
	I think it's a spiritual song. It's really deep. About healing and renewal and like a cosmic support from his dad.. IT hits home and makes me sad becasue it reminds me of my step-dad, and he has a terminal disease.

No Picture Dylan Rhythm Player	#11 by Dylan Fitzgerald at Oct 5, 2007 at 1:53 PM EST
	I think this is about losing a child, and feeling like you forgot so much about parenting, but it all comes back to you when you look into your father's eyes, because you feel that love and connection and you begin to understand, to remember how it was like. And that's what saves you.

No Picture lindsey Average	#12 by lindsey Rogogo at Oct 6, 2007 at 5:52 PM EST
	so this song is about the importance of a father, i'm guessing.