Chords for A guitarist's view of Eric Clapton, guitarist

We're [Gm] gonna stop playing this rubbish and dedicate a song to the cream [G] regardless of what kind of group they might be in
We'd like to dedicate it to Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B]
I can go see him and on any given night, he'll still be able to do that
He'll still be able [D] to pull out all the [G] stops and have all the fire and intensity
[E] And all you know everything that he had back then he [B] still has it
[E] Before Eric Clapton, most [D] guitar solos were either a repeat [Eb] or a reference to the chorus of the song
[Ab] _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [F] Like George Harrison would do that and [C] various others
Or they were just kind of freak outs
_ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] Like Dave Davies does on You Really Got Me which is intense but there's not really
It's just kind of [F] one level and there's not a lot of [G] inventiveness going on
It's just in your [E] face and gone
And when he arrived, you started to get [D] solos that were little pieces [Em] of music that were complete in [D] themselves
And they were [Gb] composed and they had a beginning and they had a middle and they had an end
[E] And they were thought through in terms of setting up the [Em] climax as a climax to the [D] solo
_ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [D] I never thought about it, I mean I certainly didn't have any big ambitions to be _ a pop star
The cream thing just happened completely organically really
_ Just by accident almost
And obviously I made use of it by writing pop songs
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
But I [A] only ever wanted to be a working musician fortunately [E] because that's what I am
[B] _ Which is all I ever wanted to be
[E] And so I got what I wanted as it were
But I certainly didn't think, _ [D] _ let me think, sort of early 60s or something
You know, I'm going [E] [D] to conquer the world
[E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[E] _ [Db] _ _ [B] _ [Abm] And when I heard it, I was _ [Gb] _ _ [G] lost _
I was lost [Ab] for words and it took me [D] weeks to recover from hearing [G] this song
When [Bm] I heard the solo and [B] listened to what was really going on
For a start, he plays the entire solo on one string
Which is interesting when you limit yourself that way, then you kind of free yourself in another way
But he's got all the over bends which is where you_ _
[E] _ Where you're bending more than just [Em] a standard step, two notes, you know
Most people would [Gb] be_
He _ was _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ a revolutionary, he was a pioneer, [Bb] he was cutting edge, [C] he was dangerous
And he was [G] doing it for the first time
He was out on [Bb] uncharted territory
I think [D] that's been lost, just how innovative it was at the [C] time
And what a revolutionary thing it was he [G] was doing
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _