It's been dabated endlessly but it's probably EBEEBE. what's stated can not be relied up as being accurate, especially if you are a player trying figure the song out. so what they say the tuning is is most likely the tuning a beginning player could use and in no way represents how stills tuned his guitar in that session. I've owned many that were totally worthless efforts to make something for people that just picked a guitar up yesterday play something that remotely sounds like the song. The footnote for the tuning uses the same source twice, then using a link to a page that mentions bruce palmer's tuning, which is not proof that's the tuning on the recording. The deviations in Steven Still's first and fourth lines are not just Gulf Spanish, they are crazy grammar mistakes, altho Still's accent is OK. A lot of songs have expressed such things.
The rhyme scheme (in Spanish) this way is quite elegant, A B B A, putting 'la mar Caribe' against 'visitarme allí', which is nice, and 'pa' Cuba' against 'no pueda', which is poignant.Īs can be seen, it's actually a lament over Cuba being closed to travel for so long. Subject: Lyr Add: Suite Judy Blue Eyes: strange last partĬoncerning Crosby Stills & Nash's 'Suite Judy Blue Eyes' and the raucous singing at the end: After some considerable listening and thinking, and conferring with a girl from Puerto Rico, I think this is what he sang into the can:
