Higher Power Chords & Tabs

by Eric Clapton

[Version Description]
From his album “Journeyman: Deluxe Edition” (2025). https://youtu.be/E5Nhb2H1GDM?si=cUdS6C70GfNTEjrD.

[Intro]
A     C#m7
A     C#m7
A     C#m7
D

[Verse 1]
    A                  E       
You wander through the darkness
B                C#m7E
No light will prevail
   A                E            
No time to feel the gentle breeze
B                    C#m7E
Blowin' through your sail
    A                  E     
You feel you're at the bottom
         B                       C#m7 E
Time for things to start looking up
      A                    E      
Where everybody's for sure got em'
BA                    BA
Things we must give up

[Chorus]
E                 A      
Now's the time to wake up
E            A   
Open up your eyes
E              A        
Start to look around you
E          C#m7
Finally realize
E             A     
Everything in heaven
E              A   
All the stars above
E                    A           
Are made for you and me my friend
E                       C#m7
To fill our hearts with love
          A               E           
We need a higher, higher, power, power
          A               E    
We need a higher, higher, power

[Interlude]
A     C#m7
A     C#m7
A     C#m7
D

[Verse 2]
        A                E        
There's some place I can reach you
B                     C#m7 E
Somewhere that you'll be
   A              E          
In case I need to talk to you
B                      C#m7 E
Or you need to talk to me
  A                   E      
I know it's something special
B             C#m7 E
Special going on
    A                E       
Can hear the drummer drumming
BA                     BA
The best is yet to come

[Chorus]
E                 A      
Now's the time to wake up
E            A   
Open up your eyes
E              A        
Start to look around you
E          C#m7
Finally realize
E             A     
Everything in heaven
E              A   
All the stars above
E                    A           
Are made for you and me my friend
E                       C#m7
To fill our hearts with love
          A               E           
We need a higher, higher, power, power
          A               E             
We need a higher, higher, power, (power)

[Outro]
A
E
          A               E    
We need a higher, higher, power
          A               E             
We need a higher, higher, power, (power)
          A               E             
We need a higher, higher, power, (power)
          A               E             
We need a higher, higher, power, (power)
A
E
          A               E    
We need a higher, higher, power
          A               E             
We need a higher, higher, power, (power)
A
E
           A               E     
(We need a higher, higher, power)
          A               E             
We need a higher, higher, power, (power)
          A               E    
We need a higher, higher, power
          A               E             
We need a higher, higher, power, (power)
A
E
A
E
           A               E     
(We need a higher, higher, power)
           A               E     
(We need a higher, higher, power)
(Fade out)