<P> "Pride and Joy" was a feature of Vaughan live repertoire before he recorded it . According to Double Trouble drummer Chris Layton, Vaughan wrote it for a new girlfriend at the time (a later fight with her inspired his "I'm Cryin"'). </P> <P> Well, you've heard about love givin' sight to the blind My baby's lovin' cause the sun to shine She's my sweet little thing, she's my pride and joy She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boy </P> <P> Called "a classic Texas shuffle", it has a twelve - bar blues arrangement, notated in the key of E (although with Vaughan's guitar tuned one - half step lower, resulting in the pitch of E ♭) in time with a moderately fast tempo . The main guitar figure features a bassline along with muted chord chops to produce a percussive - like effect . Vaughan also "extracts extra sound from the guitar by choosing finger shapes that allow the maximum number of strings to ring at a time (often the top E-string (E ♭))". </P> <P> Vaughan's song was released as a single and reached number 20 in Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock chart . Bonnie Raitt and the Charlie Daniels Band have recorded renditions of the song . </P>

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