| "Woman Don't You Cry For Me" | |
|---|---|
 1977 UK single face label | |
| Song by George Harrison | |
| from the album Thirty Three & 1/3 | |
| Released | 19 November 1976 |
| Genre | Funk rock |
| Length | 3:18 |
| Label | Dark Horse |
| Songwriter(s) | George Harrison |
| Producer(s) | George Harrison with Tom Scott |
"Woman Don't You Cry For Me" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released as the opening track of his 1976 album Thirty Three & 1/3 .
Harrison started writing the song in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1969. [1] Along with his friend, fellow guitarist Eric Clapton, Harrison was on a European tour at the time with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends. [2] Delaney Bramlett handed Harrison a bottleneck slide guitar, which he immediately began to play around with. [1] One of the first results of Harrison's discovery of this instrument was "Woman Don't You Cry For Me". [1] He later said that the title of the song might have been suggested by Bramlett. [1] The song almost went on his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass , but instead appeared on Thirty Three & 1/3 , released in 1976. [1] In May 1977, it also appeared as the B-side to the third single off the album in the UK, "It's What You Value". [3]
"Woman Don't You Cry for Me" is one of several bottleneck-inspired Harrison tunes from the period [4] − "Sue Me, Sue You Blues", "I Dig Love", "Māya Love" and "Hari's on Tour (Express)" being others. The song is in open E. [1]
In November 2011, an early take of "Woman Don't You Cry for Me" was included on the deluxe edition CD for the British DVD release of the Martin Scorsese-directed documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World. This version is included on Early Takes: Volume 1 .
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