original by:  mike@honet7.att.com
From: "Douglas French (ECE 535)" 



   CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME    By Steve Winwood    From Blind Faith

The original recording uses a second overdubbed guitar track to fill
in  various  rhythms and riffs  thus  making  playing  CFMWH  solo a
daunting but not impossible task.

The basic picking pattern below forms the foundation for  everything
else.  Get the basic picking pattern down cold then  add in whatever
flourishes and riffs that you can squeeze in.

Play  with a pronounced  syncopation  in the  rhythm.  Emphasize the
first bass note in  each  measure,  picking  the second bass note of
each measure lightly, if at all.

h = hammer on,  p = pull off

Basic picking pattern:

2/4
 1  :     .     :     .      2  :     .     :     .
E---------------------------|---------------------------|
D---3--------------3--------|------------------3--------|
G---0--------0-----------0--|------------0-----------0--|
B---------0-----------0-----|---------0-----------0-----|
A---3-----------3-----------|---2-----------2-----------|
E---------------------------|---------------------------|


 3  :     .     :     .      4  :     .     :     .
E---------------------------|---------------------------|
B------------------3--------|------------3-----3-----3--|
G------------0-----------0--|---------2-----------2-----|
D---------0-----------0-----|---0-----------0-----------|
A---1-----------1-----------|---------------------------|
E---------------------------|---------------------------|

 5  :     .     :     .      6  :     .     :     .
E---------------------------|---------------------------|
D------------------1--------|------------------3--------|
G------------2-----------2--|------------4-----------4--|
B---------3-----------3-----|---------5-----------5-----|
A---------------------------|---------------------------|
E---1-----------1-----------|---3-----------3-----------|

 7  :     .     :     .      8  :     .     :     .
E---------------------------|---------------------------|
B------------3--------------|------------3-----3--------|
G---------2-----------0-----|------------2-----2--------|
D---0-----------------------|---0-----------0-----------|
A------------------------3--|---------------------0--2--|
E---------------------------|---------------------------|

Use the same syncopation throughout.
                                    
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        D7sus          G
   Come down off your throne
        Gm/Bb          D
   And leave your body alone
   F         G         D
        Somebody must change

   You are the reason
   I've been waiting so long
   Somebody holds the key

            G                  A    Asus          D  Dsus  D
   Well I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
            Em           G           F#m  Em   D
   And I'm wasted and I can't  find  my   way  home

   Come down own your own
   And leave your money at home    <- lyrics on album jacket but...
                                 ..."And leave your body alone"
                                     is sung on the album.
   Somebody must change

   You are the reason
   I've been waiting all these years
   Somebody holds the Key

   I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
   Oh and I'm wasted and I can't  find  my  way  home

Repeat the following using the chords from the first verse,
ending on a D major:

   But I can't find my way home
   But I can't find my way home
   But I can't find my way home
   But I can't find my way home
   Still I can't find my way home
   And I aint done nothing wrong
   But I can't find my way home

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Notes on chords:

The opening chord is a D7sus missing the fifth.  This resolves naturally
into the following G chord.

The chord in the  third measure is an inversion of a Gm with the flatted
third in the bass.

The two suspended chords  in the chorus  are very important as they lead
the progression into the chords that follow.

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