This is a jazz standard so you're supposed to learn it. I improved on the the last time I worked on it and I expect to improve on it the next time I work on it.

FYI:
Arthur Hamilton later said of the song: "I had never heard the phrase. I just liked the combination of words... Instead of 'Eat your heart out' or 'I'll get even with you,' it sounded like a good, smart retort to somebody who had hurt your feelings or broken your heart." He was initially concerned that listeners would hear a reference to the Crimea, rather than "..cry me a...", but said that "..sitting down and playing the melody and coming up with lyrics made it a nonissue."[1]

A jazzy blues ballad, "Cry Me a River" was originally written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the 1920s-set film, Pete Kelly's Blues (released 1955), but the song was dropped. Fitzgerald first released a recording of the song on Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! in 1961. The song was also offered to Peggy King, but Columbia Records A&R chief Mitch Miller objected to the word "plebeian" in the lyric[2] and its first release was by actress/singer Julie London on Liberty Records in 1955, backed by Barney Kessel on guitar and Ray Leatherwood on bass. A performance of the song by London in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It helped to make it a bestseller (reaching nr. 9 on US and nr. 22 on UK charts). London's recording was later featured in the soundtracks for the movies Passion of Mind (2000), and V for Vendetta (2005). It became a gold record, and in 2016, it was inducted by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry.[3]

Cry me a river

THis is a general demo cuts from numerous thigs I did lately.
All the gnr stuff is not a reflection of what I wanna do its more like something I can do.
Any singing on this is just from a backing track

new dem

Blue Bossa

changed the intro tremelo chords only.
Made it less dissonant whilst retaining the idea.
This is John's sweet Latin tune.
John plays keys. See John play.

The Funky Carlos_3

It's just loop practise.
I use a B7 cos it facilitates the use of E harmonic minor.
If you've got a hard on for SRV or Hendrix, sorry to put ice on it, they're both dead and I just view this as a chord progression worth practising.

Skinman