Woman Don't You Cry for Me

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"Woman Don't You Cry For Me" is the leadoff track of George Harrison's 1976 album, Thirty Three & 1/3. The song is in open E, and according to Harrison's book, I Me Mine, was written in the late 1960s while Harrison was on a European tour with Delaney, Bonnie & Friends and Eric Clapton. Harrison says that Delaney gave him a bottle-neck slide guitar, which he immediately began to play around with. One of the first results of Harrison's discovery of this instrument was "Woman Don't You Cry For Me". Harrison also says that the song almost went on his 1970 landmark triple album All Things Must Pass, but didn't actually appear until 1976 and Thirty Three & 1/3. It was also a single in the UK and other countries, but received little notice.