In his autobiography, I Me Mine, published in 1980, George Harrison says that the chord changes of "Sad Eyed Lady" influenced the music of Harrison's song Long, Long, Long, which he wrote and recorded in October 1968 for the album The Beatles, sometimes known as The White Album. Harrison wrote: "I can't recall much about it except the chords, which I think were coming from "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" - D to E minor, A, and D - those three chords and the way they moved
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