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Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience

1. All Along The Watchtower
2. Purple Haze
3. Hey Joe
4. The Wind Cries Mary
5. Angel
6. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
7. Foxy Lady
8. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
9. Highway Chile
10. Crosstown Traffic
11. Castles Made Of Sand
12. Long Hot Summer Night
13. Red House
14. Manic Depression
15. Gypsy Eyes
16. Little Wing
17. Fire
18. Wait Until Tomorrow
19. Star Spangled Banner (live)
20. Wild Thing (live)

1. All Along The Watchtower

"There must be some kind of way out of here,"
said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion,
I can't get no relief.
Businessmen they drink my wine,
plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth"

"No reason to get excited,"
the thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"

All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too

Outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl

2. Purple Haze

Purple Haze all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Purple Haze all around
Don't know if I'm coming up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me!
Help me, help me . . .

Yeah, Purple Haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blowin' my mind
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?
No, help me, oh . . .
Yeah, Purple Haze . . .
Oh, no, no
Oh help me, tell me, tell me
I can't go on like this.
You're making me blow my mind.
Oh, no, no . . .

3. Hey Joe

"Hey, Joe,
Oh where you're goin' with that gun in your . . .?
Hey, Joe,
I said, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?"

"I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady.
You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man.
Yeah, I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady.
You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man.
Huh, and that ain't too cool."

"Hey, Joe,
I heard you shot your woman down,
You shot her down, now.
Hey, Joe,
I heard you shot your old lady down,
shot her down to the ground."

"Yes I did, I shot her.
You know I caught her messin' 'round, messin' 'round town.
Yes I did, I shot her.
You know I caught my old lady messin' 'round town,
And I gave her the gun.
I shot her."

"Alright,
Show them one more time again, baby
Yeah,
Oh . . ."

"Hey, Joe,
Where you gonna run to now?
Where you gonna run to?
Hey, Joe, I said,
Where you gonna run to now?
Where you . . . where you gonna go?"

"Well, dig,
I'm goin' way down south,
Way down to Mexico way.
Alright!
I'm goin' way down south,
Way down where I can be free.
Ain't no one gonna find me.
Ain't no hangman gonna,
He ain't gonna put a rope around me
You better believe it right now! I gotta go now."

"Hey, hey Joe,
You better run on down
Goodbye everybody . . ."

4. The Wind Cries Mary

After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness
Staggering on down street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary

A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
Somewhere a Queen is weeping
Somewhere a King has no wife
And the wind it cries Mary

The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cause the life they'd lived is dead
And the wind screams Mary

Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past
And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers "No, this will be the last"
And the wind cries Mary.

5. Angel

Angel came down from heaven yesterday
She stayed with me just long enough to rescue me
And she told me a story yesterday,
about the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea
And then she spread her wings high over me
She said she's gonna come back tomorrow
And I said 'fly on my sweet Angel,
fly on through the sky,
fly on my sweet Angel,
tomorrow I'm gonna be by your side'

Sure enough this morning came unto me
Silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise
And my Angel she said unto me
'today is the day for you to rise,
take my hand,
you're gonna be my man,
you're gonna rise'
And then she took me high over younder (Lord)

And I said 'fly on my sweet Angel,
fly on through the sky,
fly on my sweet Angel,
forever I will be by your side'

6. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Well, I stand up next to a mountain
and I chop it down with the edge of my hand.
Well, I'll stand up next to a mountain,
and chop it down with the edge of my hand.
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island,
might even raise a little sand.
'Cause I'm a Voodoo Chile,
Lord knows I'm a Voodoo Chile, baby.

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time,
I'll give it right back to you one of these days.
I said I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time,
I'll give it right back one of these days.
If I don't meet you no more in this world,
I'll meet you in the next one and don't be late, don't be late.
'Cause I'm a Voodoo Chile, Voodoo Chile,
Lord knows I'm a Voodoo Chile, hey hey hey.
I'm a Voodoo Chile, baby.
And I don't take "no" for an answer.
Especially "no".

7. Foxy Lady

Foxy . . .!
Foxy . . .!
You know you a cute little heartbreaker.
Hah, Foxy . . .
Yeah!
And you know you a sweet little love maker.
Hah, Foxy . . .
I wanna take you home, hah, yeah.
I won't do you no harm, no.
You got to be all mine, all mine.
Ooh, Foxy Lady!
Yeah, Foxy . . .!
Foxy . . .!

Now, I see you on down on the scene.
Oh, Foxy . . .!
You make me wanna get up and scream: "Foxy . . .!"
Oh, baby, listen now.
I've made up my mind.
I'm tired of wasting all my precious time.
You gotta be all mine, all mine.
Foxy Lady . . .!

Here I come!
Foxy, Foxy, Foxy, . . .
Yeah!
I'm gonna take you home!
I won't do you no harm, no.
You gotta be all mine, all mine.
Foxy Lady . . .!

Here I come, baby
I'm comin' to get ya
Auh, Foxy lady, yeah, yeah
Oo, you look so good, Foxy!
Oh, yeah, Foxy!
Yeah, get it, Foxy!
You make me feel like, uh,
feel like sayin': "Foxy!"
Ooh, Lady . . .
Foxy Lady . . .
Foxy Lady . . .

8. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp

The morning is dead and the day is too
There's nothing left here to lead me, but the velvet moon
All my loneliness I have felt today
It's a little more than enough to make a man throw himself away
And I continue to burn the Midnight Lamp, alone

Now the smiling portrait of you
is still hanging on my frowning wall
It really doesn't, it really doesn't bother me too much at all
It's just the eh ever falling dust that makes it so hard for me to see
That forgotten earring laying on the floor
Facing coldly towards the door
And I continue to burn the Midnight Lamp, all alone
Burn!
Yeah, yeah
Lonely, lonely, lonely
Loneliness is such a drag!

So here I sit to face that same old fireplace
Getting ready for the same old explosion
Going through my mind
And soon enough the time will tell
About the circus in the wishing well
And someone who will buy and sell for me
Someone who will toll my bell
And I continue to burn the same old lamp, alone
Yeah
Darling, can you hear me calling you?
So lonely
Gotto blow my mind
Yeah, yeah
Lonely, lonely . . .

9. Highway Chile

Yeah . . .
His guitar slung across his back.
His dusty boots is his Cadillac.
Flamin' hair just a-blowin' in the wind.
Ain't seen a bed in so long it's a sin.
He left home when he was seventeen.
The rest of the world he went on to see.
And everybody knows, boss,
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Now you'd probably call him a tramp,
But it goes a little deeper than that
He's a Highway Chile.
Yeah!

Now some people say
He had a girl that moaned.
Who messed around and did him pretty wrong.
They tell me it gotta hurt him bad.
Gotta made him feel pretty sad.
I couldn't say what went through his mind (not sure about the lirics!!!!)
Anyway, he left the world behind
And everybody knows the same old story
In another war you can loose your glory (not sure about the lirics!!!!)
Now you probably call him a tramp,
But I know it goes a little deeper than that
He's a Highway Chile.
Walk on brother!
Yeah!

His old guitar slung across his back
His dusty boots is his Cadillac.
Flamin' hair just a-blowin' in the wind.
Ain't seen a bed in so long it's a sin.
Now you may call him a tramp,
But I know it goes a little deeper than that
He's a Highway Chile.
Walk on brother!
Don't let no one stop you!
Highway Chile!
Yeah, yeah, yeah . . .
Highway Chile!
Rollin' stone!
Go on down the highway!
Highway Chile!
Yeah, yeah . . .
Highway Chile!

10. Crosstown Traffic

You jump I front of my car when ya, you know all the time,
that, ninety miles in hour girl is, the speed I drive
You tell me it's alright, you don't mind a little pain
You say you just want me to, take you for a drive
You're just like (Crostown Traffic)
So hard to get through to you (Crosstown Traffic)
I don't need to run over you (Crosstown Traffic)
All you do is slow me down,
and I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town
I'm not the only soul accused of hit and run
Tire-tracks all across your back, I can, I can see you had your fun!
But-eh, darling can't you see my signals turn from green to red
and with you I can a traffic jam, straight up ahead
You're just like (Crosstown Traffic)
So hard to get through to you (Crosstown Traffic)
I don't need to run over you (Crosstown Traffic)
All you do is slow me down,
and I got better things on the other side of town

Yeah, yeah (Crosstown Traffic)
(Yeah) Look out (look out)
Look out baby
Coming through
(Crosstown Traffic)
Yeah (look out, Crosstown Traffic, yeah, look out)
Look out, look out baby (Crosstown Traffic, yeah, look out)
What's that in the street? (Crosstown Traffic)
(Yeah, look out)
(Crosstown Traffic, yeah, look out)

11. Castles Made Of Sand

Down the street you can hear her scream 'you're a discrace',
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries 'oh girl, you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?'
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green

And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually

A little Indian brave, who before he was ten
Played war games in the woods with his Indian friends
And he built a dream that when he grew up
He would be a fearless warrior Indian Chief
Many moons passed and more the dream grew strong,
Until tomorrow he would sing his first war song and fight his first battle
But something went wrong, surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night

And so castles made of sand, melts into the sea, eventually

There was a young girl, whose heart was a frown
'Cause she was crippled for life, and she couldn't speak a sound
And she wished and prayed she could stop living, so she decided to die
She drew her wheel chair to the edge of the shore,
And to her legs she smiled 'you won't hurt me no more'
But then a sight she'd never seen made her jump and say,
'Look, a golden winged ship is passing my way'
And it really didn't have to stop, it just kept on going

And so castles made of sand, slips into the sea, eventually

12. Long Hot Summer Night

It sure was a long long long hot summer night
As far as my eyes could see
Well my heart was way
down in a cold cold winter storm.

Well my darlin' where can you be? Where can you be baby?
Where can you be?

There was three sugar walls and a two candy cane windows
But the serious mood melted ah all those insight
Everybody's on fire but I'm uh snowin' in a cold blizzard.

Where are you on this ah hot cold summer?
Where are you on this ah hot cold summer?
Where are you on this ah hot cold summer night?

Around about this time the telephone blew its horn across the room
Scared little Annie clean out of her mind and I tell ya
Roman the Candle he peeps out of his peekaboo hide and seek
And grabbed little Annie from the ceiling just in time
And the telephone keeps on screamin'.
Yeah yeah yeah!

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Hello said my shaked voice, well how you doin' I start to stutter look
ah can't cha tell I'm ah doin'
fine There was my baby talkin' she's way down 'cross the border.

She says I'm gonna hurry to ya I've been a fool
And I'm tired of cryin'
Said I'm tired Jimi.

Yes a long long long hot summer night
As far as my eyes could see
But I can ah feel the heat comin' on as my baby's gettin' closer.

I'm so glad that my baby's comin' to rescue me
So glad that my baby's comin' to rescue me
So glad that my baby's comin' to rescue me
Rescue, rescue me, rescue
Rescue me, rescue
Rescue, rescue, What'd I say
Rescue me, rescue me
Rescue, rescue me, rescue
Rescue me

13. Red House

Oh, yeah
There's a Red House over yonder
That's where my baby stays
Lord, there's a Red House over yonder
Lord, that's where my baby stays
I ain't been home to see my baby,
in ninety nine and one half days.

Wait a minute something's wrong here
The key won't unlock this door.
Wait a minute something's wrong
Lord, have mercy, this key won't unlock this door,
something's goin' on here.
I have a bad bad feeling
that my baby don't live here no more.
That's alright, I still got my guitar
Look out now . . .

Yeah . . .
That's alright, I still got my guitar . . .

Well, I might as well go back over yonder
Way back up on the hill
That's something to do
Lord, I might as well go back over yonder
Way back yonder cross the hill
'Cause if my baby don't love me no more,
I know her sister will.

14. Manic Depression

Manic Depression is touchin' my soul
I know what I want, but I just don't know how to heh!
Go about gettin' it
Feelin' sweet feelin'
Drops from my fingers fingers
Manic Depression is a catchin' my soul
Yeah . . .

Woman so weary
The sweet cause in vain
You make love, you brake love
It's all the same when it's
When it's over
Music sweet music
I wish I could caress caress caress
Manic Depression's a frustraiting mess.

Cry on guitar!

Well, I think I'll go turn myself off and go on down,
all the way down.
Really ain't no use in me hangin' around in a your kind of scene
Music sweet music
I wish I could caress and kiss kiss
Manic Depression is a frustraiting mess.

Music sweet music, sweet music, sweet music . . .
Music sweet music, sweet music, sweet music . . .
Depression . . .

15. Gypsy Eyes

Well, I realized that I really need those eyes,
I love you Gypsy Eyes,
I love you Gypsy Eyes.
Alright!
Gypsy!
Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire,
Wondrin' where in this world might you be.
And knowin' all the time you still are roamin' the countryside.
Do you still think about me?
Oh, my Gypsy . . .

Well I walk right on to your rebel roadside.
The one that rambles on for million miles.
Yes, I walk down this road,
Searching for your love and my soul too.
When I find you, I ain't gonna let go.

I remember the first time I saw you.
The tears in your eyes look like they was tryin' to say,
"Oh, little boy, you know I could love you.
But first I must make my getaway.
Two strange men are fighting to death over me today.
I'll try to meet you by the old highway.
Hey!

Well, I realized that I really need those eyes,
I love you Gypsy Eyes,
I love you Gypsy Eyes,
I love you Gypsy Eyes,
I love you Gypsy Eyes.
Alright!

I've been searching so long

16. Little Wing

Well she's walking through the clouds
With a circus mind that's running round
Butterflies and zebras
And moonbeams and fairy tales
That's all she ever thinks about
Riding with the wind.

When I'm sad, she comes to me
With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free
It's alright she says it's alright
Take anything you want from me, anything
Anything.

Fly on little wing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, little wing

17. Fire

Alright!
Now dig this baby!
You don't care for me,
I don't care about that.
You got a new fool,
Hah, I like him like that.
I have only one burning desire,
Let me stand next to your fire.
[Let me stand next to your fire] Hey, let me stand next to your fire
[Let me stand next to your fire] Oh, let me stand baby
[Let me stand next to your fire] Let me stand
[Let me stand next to your fire] Yeah baby

Listen here baby,
Stop acting so crazy!
You say your mom ain't home,
It ain't my concern.
Just don't play with me,
and you won't get burned.
I have only one itching desire,
Let me stand next to your fire
[Let me stand next to your fire] Yeah, let me stand next to your fire
[Let me stand next to your fire] Let me stand
[Let me stand next to your fire] Oh, Let me stand
[Let me stand next to your fire] Oh

Oh, move over Rover,
And let Jimi take over.
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about
Yeah!
Get on with it baby!

That's what I'm talking about.
Now dig this!
Ha!
Now listen baby!
You try to give me your money,
You better save it babe.
Save it for your rainy day.
I have only one burning desire,
let me stand next to your fire.
[Let me stand next to your fire] Oh, let me stand
[Let me stand next to your fire] Let me stand baby
[Let me stand next to your fire] I ain't gonna do you no harm
[Let me stand next to your fire] Oh

Yeah!
You better move it baby . . .
I ain't gonna hurt you baby . . .

18. Wait Until Tomorrow

Well, I'm standing here freezing inside your golden garden
I got my ladder leaned up against your wall
Tonight's the night we plan to run away together
Come on Dolly Mae, there's no time to stall
But now you're telling me that ah . . .
I think we better wait till tomorrow

Oh, Dolly Mae, girl you must be insane
So unsure of yourself leaning from your unsure window pane.
Do I see a silhouette of somebody pointing something from a tree
CLICK BANG what a hang
Your daddy just shot poor me
And I hear you say, as I fade away
We don't have to wait till tomorrow

19. Star Spangled Banner (live)

Instrumental

20. Wild Thing (live)

You make my heart sing
You make a everything groovy
Wild Thing

Wild thing I think you move me
But I wanna know for sure
Come here now sock it to me one more time
You move me

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make a everything groovy
Wild Thing

Wild thing I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure
Come here now sock it to me one more time
I love you

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make a everything groovy
Wild Thing

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