Sunday 22 June 1969
Northridge, Devonshire Downs (race track), Devonshire Street & Zelzah Avenue, San Fernando Valley, California, USA
Jam - ‘Newport 69’ festival - the biggest prior to Woodstock – with Jimi – guitar & vocal, Buddy Miles – drums & vocal; [an unknown black man. Possibly from Eric Burdon & War?] drums; Bob Arthur – bass (Mother Earth), Eric Burdon – vocal & “acrobatics”; “Sunshine” [true identity unknown) For a while “Sunshine” was aka “Mary Story” – as part of a hoax by Bill Yeager aka “Jimmy Story”] – vocal & “acrobatics”; Tracy Nelson (Mother Earth) vocal/backing vocals; Sadie Cantrell, Irma Routen & Lady Corder - backing vocals (Mother Earth); Cornelius ‘Snooky’ Flowers & Terry Clements – sax (both Janis Joplin band, Janis attended the 1st day and appeared on stage, when her presence was announced to big applause, it appears that she did not perform though. Terry was formerly in Electric Flag with Buddy); Lee Oskar – harmonica (Eric Burdon & War); and Tom Webb (The Flock) – flute
There is no record of the Janis Joplin Revue (only becoming known as the ‘Kozmic Blues Band’ after they had disbanded, from the title of Janis’ LP “I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama!. ‘Full Tilt’ was only formed in 1970) performing at the festival, but as they were recording her KB LP in nearby Los Angeles between the 16th and 23rd, two members of her group were able to jam. The bass player was mistakenly identified in an article in Rolling Stone as being Janis’ bass player, which has since been unfortunately repeated, but the film shows clearly that it was actually Mother Earth’s Bob Arthur.
The same jounalist in his review of the 3 day festival said that Janis showed up herself on the first day and was introduced to warm applause, but not that she actually performed. This is corroberated by two other articles from this time, which also state that she announced she would jam on Sunday but didn’t turn up.
Jimi & Buddy prominently featured Buddy’s ‘We Got To Live Together’ (possibly hurriedly written for this occasion, as it is basically two Sly Stone songs jammed together) No doubt an answer to the racist abuse at the Experience show two days earlier. He only featured this song once more - as the finale at his - all black artists - show at the Fillmore East with the Band of Gypsys, supported by ‘The Voices Of East Harlem’. Jimi also adds a verse to ‘Paper Airplanes’ about addressing racism, and much of the jam is blues based.
Most of this was filmed, but most of it was silent, it has had the soundtrack added and has been, later (beautifully) re-synched by jamminjimi
Jimi –vocal & guitar, Buddy – drums & backing vocal, Bob Arthur – bass
Jimi : [Tape cut] …here is completely out of sight. We’ll go over by that way. Listen, we’re
gonna pretend we forget about everything, alive and dead, and call it Earth versus Space, all right. Here we go [checks tuning]…
Aud : [Usual shouting match “sit down!” etc. Mass rhythmic clapping]
1. EARTH VERSUS SPACE [Stone Free theme: ‘Got to keep movin’’,
this long jam includes lyrics from several songs]
Grab just what you know
We ain’t got time to go down
Ain’t got time to slow down
Got to keep movin’, now
Got to keep movin’
Got to keep movin’, chile, now, now, now, now
2. <GYPSY EYES>
Well, I realise that I’ve been hypnotised
I love your Gypsy eye-eyes
I love your Gypsy eye-eyes
I love your Gypsy eye-eyes
3. <MIDNIGHT LIGHTNING> [backing vocal Buddy Miles]
I got to keep on movin’
Make love on my dyin’ bed
I got to keep on movin’
Make love on my dyin’ bed
I got to stop cigarrette smokin’
Or else I’ll cough my lungs to death
I got to stop cigarrette smokin’
(Keep on movin’)
I’m gonna cough my lungs to death
(Oh, keep on mo-ovin’)
Hey-hey-hey etc.
(Hey-hey etc.)
Do-do-doodle-oo etc.
(Doo-de-doo-doo etc…)
I’ve forgot some words, but there ain’t no ha-ha words to say
We’re gonna look around an’ see if we can make up some words
4. < “THERE’S A WAR GOIN’ ON” > [This bears no resemblance to “Red House” apart from those two
words. Jimi wrote a short lyric using the line ‘There’s a war goin’
on’ although the other five lines are not used here]
I see you sittin’ there in your overhaul
Formed by a few, complete bummer
There’s a war goin’ on1
Hey, baby, now
Come on down with me
(Come on down with me)
Come on down with me, child
(Come on down with me)
Come on down with me, chile
(Come on down with me)
Are groovin’ any better now
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Hey-ey, hey-yeah)
Goin’ down the red house
(Don’t go down the red house)
Goin’ down the red house
(Goin’ down the red house)
Drink some businessman wine+
We’re gonna turn the tide
There’s a war goin’ on, yeah
War goin on, chile
1 Line from an unrecorded lyric by Jimi
+Bob Dylan: “Business Men They Drink My Wine”
5. < MACHINE GUN* >
Hey, machine gun
Tearin’ my body all to pieces
Said machine gun, chile
Tear my body all apart, now, now
Even though we’re only families apart
*According to Jimi this addresses at least two subjects, one is war and the other is personal struggle
“People fighting wars within’ themselves.” See song?verse? below
6. <“SOMETIMES I WONDER”? (Sounds like Devon again!)
Sometimes you make me wonder
I get the blues, and then I wonder, chile, yeah
Oh, you make me stay out late at night
Never come home, and fuss and fight
Who’s a fool, me or you?
Sometimes I wonde-er, yeah
Sometimes I wonde-er
Oh, sometimes I wonder, chile, now
Yea-eah
Is that a woman, man
Jimi : Hope you don’t mind us just makin’ up things as we go along, just. That’s what life is
about, the only thing we just write our own scripts that’s all [tuning] Like to-uh, see if we can do a blues in a minute. If that’s all right? We’ll sing you the blues [tuning]
? : Sing it with it…
? : Let’s get the sound right first ha-ha
Girl : Joey’s knockin’ around
Jimi : [Playing intro to song] We’re gonna try and do a slow blues, now, okay. It’s called The
Things I Used To Do
Aud : [Usual shouting match “sit down!” etc.]
Jimi : I wish I could, heh [guitar ‘says’ ‘Motherfucker’… tuning again]
Aud : [Still a shouting match “sit down!” etc.]…
Jimi –vocal & guitar, Bob Arthur – bass, Buddy – drums
7. THE THINGS THAT I USED TO DO (Eddie ‘Guitar Slim’ Jones)
The things that I used to do-o
Lord, I won’t do no mo-ore
Lord, the things that I used to do-o
Come on, for me
Lord, I won’t do no mo-ore
Turn it louder
I used to sit and hold your hand, baby
Turn it up! Turn it up!
Cry-y-y, beg you not to go no-ow
I search all night for you baby-y
Lord, and my search would always end in vain
‘Cause I searched you out, baby
Lord, I searched all night for you
Lord, and my search would always end in vai-ai-ain
Yeah, end in vain
‘Cause I knew that all the time, baby
That you was hid out with your other ma-a-an
That’s right, yeah, that’s why I still got my guitar
[Solo]
Aud : [Applause]
Buddy – vocal & drums, Jimi – guitar, Bob Arthur – bass
8. “SLOW BLUES” (George ‘Buddy’ Miles) [quotes lyrics from THE SKY IS CRYIN’ (Elmore James)]
We-he-he-eh-eh-he-ell
I said, I worry, worry, worry, worry, worry
Oh yeah, that’s all I ever do-o
You see I lost my sweet baby
An’ I’m just in a daze an’ I don’t know, know-know-know
I don’t, babe, know what to do
The sky is cryin’
Look at the tea-ears fa-all like rai-ain
O-o-o-oh-I-I
I said the sky is cryi-in-n’
And the tea-ea-a-a-ears fa-all dow-own like rain
I still wonder when I’m gonna see my baby
An’ I’m hopi-in’ she’ll come back to me
Everyday, now
I said the sky is cryin’
An’ I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, know-know-know, know-know
Know-know, I said I got a
I said I got a problem, I said I don’t want
I wonder, wonder
If I’m getting’ crazier, ye-a-ah
I said, aaah! what a poor boy to do-o
I don’t want to know, I do my job
We-he-he-ell, am I glad to see you, my baby
She-ee-oo-woo-hoo-ooh
She-ee-hee-ee-hoo
She-ee-hee-ee-hee-ee-hee-hoo-ooh
I wonder-er
I said I’m just sittin’ down an’ wonderin’ am I
An’ I said I wanna realise that I wanna
Oh, that I wanna go freak-out an’ testify, yes I do
Oh, an’ I wanna know the World about it
I want everybody to know about it
Everybody to shout abou-ou-ou-out it
An’ I just-uh wonder
I said I-I-I wonder
When she’s gonna come back to me, right now
Oo-oo-hoo-ooh
[Tape cut]
Buddy – vocal [& maybe some drums at the beginning?], Tracy Nelson - vocal (very briefly), Jimi – guitar, backing vocal, Bob Arthur – bass, [unknown] drums, Snooky Flowers & Terry Clements – sax, Lee Oskar – harmonica, Tracy Nelson, Sadie Cantrell, Irma Routen & Lady Corder - backing vocals (8mm film (mostly) synched (beautifully) by jamminjimi)
9. WE GOT TO LIVE TOGETHER (George ‘Buddy’ Miles, based on Sly & the Family Stone’s ‘Sing A
Simple Song’ & ‘Everyday People’ (Sylvester ‘Sly Stone’ Stewart)
Thanks to ‘purplejim’ for pointing this out to me
Everybody clap your hands, come on
Now, I want everybody to take a look at yourselves, and everybody around you, and at each other, and I want you all to, to repeat after me, singin’
Oh
We got to live together
We got to live together
Everybody louder
We got to live together
Oh
We got to live together
I said
We got to live togethe-er
Yeah, everybody
We got to live together
I said
We got to live together, ye-ah
We got to live together
O-oh, baby
We got to live together
Oh
We got to live together
I can’t hear you now
Oh
We got to live together
Everybody
We got to live together
Aud: We got to live together!
Oh
We got to live together
Oh
We got to live together
Aud: We got to live together!
Can you stand up and testify you a-all
Can everybody stand up and testify
Aud: [Cries of affirmation]
Do you think we can live together
Do you want to get it on together
Let me hear you say yeah
Aud: Yeah
uh-Say yeah
Aud: Yeah!
Say yeah
Aud : Yeah!
Say, Hell, yeah
Aud : Yeah!
Well, then I know-w we can get it on, y’all
If we make it, if we try-y-y
One more ti-ime
We gotta live together
Oh
We gotta live together
Oh, I said now
We got to live togethe-e-er
We got to live together
(We gotta live together)
Everybody sing
We got to live together
Oh
We got to live
(We got to live together)
No-o-o-o-ow!
This is all ri-ight, ye-a-ah
All ri-ight
All ri-ight, yeah
It’s all right, now,now
We gotta live togethe-er
We gotta live together
No-o-o-o-ow!
N-o-o-o-ow!
Now, now, now!
It’s a-all right!
It’s a-all right now, yeah
I said, now
We got to live together
Oh
We got to live togethe-er
We got to li-ive togethe-er
[Jimi quotes SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE ([John] ‘Jack’ Bruce, Pete Brown & Eric Clapton)]
Just remember one thi-ing
Before we sto-op, ah, this so-ong
To si-ing to yourself, over, and over
Sing this si-imple so-ong
Aud : [Start clapping and singing together]
We got to live together
Aud: We got to live together
We got to live together
Aud: We got to live together
Everybody’s got to live togethe-er!
Aud: We gotta live together
I said now, now
We got to live together
We got to live together
We got to live together
I said now
We got to live togethe-er
Oh-oh, I said now, now
We got to live togethe-er
(We got to live together, now)
I said now
We got to live together, yeah
(Oh, we got to live together, yeah)
Say it now Jimi!
We got to live togethe-er! yeah
(We got to live togethe-er, ye-e-eah)
O-o-oh
We got to live togethe-er! yeah
(We got to live together)
Oh, sing it!
We got to live together
(Hey, we got to live together)
Oh, sing it!
We got to live together
(Got to live together)
Oh, we got to live
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
Said
We got to live together
Said
We got to live together
We got to live together
Aud: We got to live together
Aud: We got to live together
Aud: We got to live together
We got to live together
Aud: We got to live together
Everybody!
Aud: We gotta live together
We got to live together
We got to live together
Said
We got to live together
We got to live together
Everybody’s got to live together y’all
I said now
We got to live together
O-oh! I said now
We got to live together, yeah, now
Said, now
We got to live together
Got to live together
We got to live together
We got to live together
We got to live together
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
(We got to live together)
(We got to live together)
Yeah, yeah
(We got to live together)
(We got to live together)
Yeah, yeah, no-ow
(We got to live together)
(I said now)
(We got to live together)
[Solo]
One more time you a-a--all
Now
We got to live together
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
Hey, now, now
(We got to live together)
Hey, now
(We got to live together)
Hey, now
(We got to live together)
Oh, yeah
(We got to live together)
I said we got to go on…
(We got to live together)
… in this world, now…
(We got to live together)
…sufferin’ for lovin’-uh
(We got to live together)
Summer’s always all right, now
(We got to live together)
Within us is a cat who works from one another
(We got to live together)
Everything gonna be all right, ye-ah!
(We got to live together)
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
Wo-oh, now!
We got to live togethe-er
(We got to live together)
Now, now, I said
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
Wo-oh, I said
We got to live together, yeah, yeah
(We got to live together)
Said we got to go on out
And pick up one another-er, yeah
(We got to live together)
Oh, I said now, we got to
Lo-o-ove one another, ye-eah, yeah
(We got to live together)
Ye-e-e-eah! Yeah!
(We got to live together)
All right!
(Everybody’s got to live together)
[Solo]
We got to live together!
(We got to live together)
I said now
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
(We got to live together)
I said now
Everybody’s got to live together
(We got to live together)
(We got to live together)
I said now
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
I said now
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
I said now
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
Now, no-ow
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
Oh, Lord, l know, now
(We got to live together)
I know, I know, I kno-ow
(We got to live together)
I said every dog-on ti-ime
(We got to live together)
Every single ti-ime
(We got to live together)
On an’ on, on, all ri-ight, yeah
(We got to live together)
(Ye-eah)
I said, now
We got to live together ah-ah
(We got to live together)
(Ye-eah)
(We got to live together)
O-o-oh! yeah, I said
(Oh, I know)
We got to live together, yeah, yeah, yeah
(We got to live together)
O-o-oh, Lord, Lord!
We got to live together! yeah, yeah
(We got to live together)
(We got to live together)
We got to live together, yeah now
(We got to live together)
(We got to live together)
Oh, I said now
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
We got to live together
(We got to live together)
We got to live together!
(We got to live together)
We got to live together!
(We got to live together)
We’ve got to, got to, we’ve got to
You’ve got to, got to, got to
You’ve just got to have your mind set to
(You’ve just got to have your mind set)
(Got to, got to, got to)
Got to, thank God
(Got to, just got to, got to)
Everybody sing
(Got to, got to, got to)
(Got to, got to, got to)
(Got to, got to, got to)
(We’ve got to, got to, got to)
(We’ve got to, got to, just got to)
(We got to, ooh)
We’ve got to live together
(We’ve got to live together)
Everybody sing
We’ve got to live togethe-er
(We’ve got to live together)
We’ve got to live together
(We’ve got to live together)
We’ve got to live together
(We’ve got to live together)
We’ve got to live together
(We got to live together)
(We got to live)
(We got to live together)
(We’ve got to live)
A-all, li-ive, together
(We got to live together)
(We’ve got to li-i-ive)
O-oh, we can live togethe-er
A-all right, a-all right
Oh, everybody si-ing, ye-e-eah
Everybody singin’ a simple so-ong, y’all
Yeah-well-all-ri-ight-yeah-um
I just want everybody to understand it no-ow
An’ I just want e-e-everybody to feel all ri-ight
Yes I do-o, well all right
An’ I just want you to know-ow one thi-ing
About my symphony, it don’t live foreve-ever-r-r
Gonna be-bop-a-lu-la, said be-bop
Come on
We got to live together
Everybody clap your ha-ands now
Clap your ha-ands, if you want to live together
Aud: [Start clapping in earnest]
Clap your ha-ands, if you
If you want to keep it together, y’all, yeah
Clap your hands
Clap your ha-ands
If you’re to li-ive
You’ve got to do it right, y’a-all
You’ve got to do it right every day
‘Cause we ain’t go-ot alo-ong
You all know-ow is a-all
And we gotta lo-ove
We gotta lo-ove an’ understand one another
We gotta di-ig, we’ve gotta di-i-ig one another-er, yeah
(Do, do)
An’ the most important thing of a-all, y’a-all
(Do, do, we do)
We got to
(We do, do, we do)
We got to get right down an’ lo-ove
(Do, we do)
I mean lo-ove one another
(Do, we do, we do)
Yea-eah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Do, we do)
Oh, ye-ah
Oo yeah
Hallelujah
All sing Hallelujah
Sing Hallelujah
A-a-a-ah!
All right!
Sayin’ now
We got to live together
Now
We got to live togethe-er
We got to live
We got to li-ive toge-e-ethe-e-er, ye-eah, now
Yeah!
We got to live together
We got to live together
We got to live together
We got to li-ve together
(Do
We got to li-ve together
Do, do, do
Loooooooooooord!!
Loooooooooooord!!
Knoooows I love, I love her
Looove her but God knows
Lord, above
Ooooh, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord
Looord, Lord
Do, do, do
Do, do, do
All right
It’s out of sight
It’s all right
Little bit of rain
It’s all right
It’s all Yeah
Yeah
Little bit of rain
Okay
Keep singin’
I know we can go on and on with this song, y’all
But we’re gonna take it on home no-ow
But just remember o-one thi-ng-uh
Just remember o-one thing
Just remember that we-e-e go-ot
We got to a-alwa-ays li-ive, together
Just remember o-one thi-ing
That we alway-ay-ay-ays, got to li-ive
We a-alway-ay-ay-ay-ays
We all, we all, we alwa-a-a-a-ays
Got to li-ive together
Burdon: Always
A-alwa-ays
Burdon: A-always
We always got to li-ive and learn to lo-ove one
Burdon: Always
Eric Burdon vocal, Buddy vocal, Jimi – guitar, Bob Arthur – bass, [unknown] drums, Lee Oskar – harmonica, Snooky Flowers & Terry Clements – sax, Tom Webb – flute, Tracy Nelson, Sadie Cantrell, Irma Routen & Lady Corder - backing vocals
10. < “I FEEL SO GOOD” (This chorus possibly taken from this William ‘Big Bill’ Broonzy song?)
Feel, feel love
Feel, feelin’ good
Feel, feelin’ good
Feelin’
Feelin’ so good
Feelin’
Feelin’… so good
Feelin’ so good
Feelin’
Feelin’
Feelin’ so good
Feelin’ so good
Feelin’
Aud: [Start screaming and clapping about something]
[Buddy:]
Feeli-in’
Feelin’ so good
Feel all right
Feel all ri-ight
So, Lord, Lord, don’t kno-ow
It’s all right
Oh Lord, don’t kno-ow
But it’s all right
Oh Lo-o-o-ord
Oh Lord, I’m all right
Oh, right now
All right now
Oh Lord yeah
All right
I’m all right
Aaaaa-h!
(Feelin’)
(Feelin’)
(Feelin’)
etc.
[Burdon:]
Hey, I’m feeling
Baby, I’m feeling
Feelin’ so good, man
Feelin’ so good
Now there’s no doubt I’m
Feeling(Feeling)
Fee-eeling(Feeling)
Feelin’ so good, baby(Feeling)
Feelin’ so good, yeah(Feeling)
Now do you feel good
Do you feel good
Tell me do you feel good
Are you, feelin’ so good
Are you stone free
Are you stone free
Are you stone free
(Feeling)
Just like me
(Feeling)
Do you feel good
(Feeling)
Do you fee-eel good
Do you feel good
Feelin’ good
Can you feel it
Can you smell i-it
Can you touch it
Can you get it, babe, wooh!
Now I’m feelin’
George I fee-eel it
Baby, I feel good
I’m feelin’ so good
Feelin’ so good
(Feeling)
Feelin’ so goo-ood, ye-eah
(Feeling)
Feelin’ so good
Feelin’ so good
Good God, I said
I’m feelin’ wooh!
(Feeling)
Feeling (Feeling)
Feeling (Feeling)
Feeling so good, ooh!
(Feeling)
Feeling (Feeling)
Feeling (Feeling)
Fee-ee-eeling so good
(Feeling)
Feeling (Feeling)
Feelin’ (Feeling)
Feelin’ (Feeling)
Feelin’ so good, wooh
(Feeling)
Feelin’ so good
(Feeling)
Feelin’ (Feeling)
Feelin’ so good
(Feeling)
Feelin’ so good
(Feeling)
feel love
Feel, good
Feel, feelin’ good
Feelin’
Feelin’
Feelin’… so good
Feelin’ so good
Feelin’
Feelin’
Feelin’ so good
Feelin’ so good
Feelin’
[etc.]
[Jimi quotes SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE ([John] ‘Jack’ Bruce, Pete Brown & Eric Clapton)
[Tape cut]
11. MESSAGE TO LOVE [only an incomplete snippet at the end]
….
[UNTITLED VOCAL CALL & RESPONSE]
“Sunshine” [identity unknown, possibly Bonnie Bramlett?] -vocal, Buddy vocal & drums, Jimi – guitar, Bob Arthur – bass, Tom Webb - flute
SU: G-o-o-od, I said, Go-o-o-od
BM: Yeah, yeah
SU: Sa-am
BM: I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
SU: I know you don’t love me like you used to do. I know that Buddy, ‘cause you don’t
play your tubs like you used to do heh-heh
BM: I know ah, I know-ow, I know
SU: O-oh, baby, tell me
BM: Sure feels good this afternoon, y’all… and I’d like to say that everybody up he-ere…
and everybody out the-ere
SU: Is havin’ a Hell of a Goddamn good time
BM: Sure i-is, ye-es, yes… We’ve been goin’ a lo-ong ti-ime, and everybody’s feelin’ all
ri-i-i-ight,
SU: A-all right
BM: Just got to stop, we got to stop for one mi-inute, we can’t over do it y’a-a-y’all
Aud : [Applause]
BM: And I see, I see out there everybody sure in Hell is livin’ togethe-er ye-eah
SU: Say yeah, say yeah
Aud : Yeah!
BM: Everybody’s feelin’ good and a-are lookin’ beautiful
SU: An’ Goo-ood, yeah
“Sunshine” [identity unknown, possibly Bonnie Bramlett?] - vocal, Jimi – guitar, Bob Arthur – bass, Buddy – drums & backing vocal, Lee Oskar - harmonica, Tom Webb - flute
(8mm film partially synched (beautifully) by jamminjimi)
12. THE TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN’ (Myron ‘Tiny’ Bradshaw, Howie Kay and Sydney Nathan)
Oh, yeah, lookin’ good
Jimi: Yeah
Hit your hands, hit your hands and stomp your feet!
Train keep a rollin’ all night long
Train keep a rollin’ all night long
You’ve got a hold on me, yes I know
Train kept a rollin’ all night
[Jimi starts playing ‘Paper Airplanes’ riff from here]
Train kept a rollin’ all night
Train kept a rollin’ all night
(All night)
You’ve got a hold on me, yes I know
Yeah
Lord, you’ve got a face on you
Get up and smile at me
Lord, gonna fight you boyfriend
Lord, he got to deal with me
And get ready
Praise the Lord
[Solo, instrumental title? CHEROKEE MIST? Guitar ‘says’ ‘Here comes the train riding the track’]
Aud: [Applause]
Where’s the train
Jimi – guitar & vocal, Bob Arthur – bass, Buddy drums, Snooky Flowers & Terry Clements – sax, Tom Webb – flute
13. PAPER AIRPLANES*
Shoot down all those sugar mammies
Lord, are they precious, no, no, no
Shoot down all those paper airplanes
‘Specially the one’s that fly you so low
Lord, I ain’t had a piece, so lo-ong
Makin’ love without a needle, let’s just say
Hey-a-hey, hey-hey-yeah-hey-hey
Hey-yeah, hey-ey-yeah
Lord, I’m goin’ back down south now
And fight the cowards way down below
All the way down in electric cotton field
Way down so low, chile
I’m goin’ down, a whole lot o’ friends here now
Well, I’m a man as everybody1
* aka Power of Soul, Jimi’s big song about breaking free from hard drugs (mainly heroin) earlier titles were
‘Crash Landing’ & ‘Paper Airplanes’ (analogy to paper wraps for powder drugs - flying?) He also noted in his
memo “songs to try in studio” at # 9. Power of God --- Love to Devon.
1This whole verse would appear in context to be another reference to the racism from two days previous
14. EARTH BLUES
Lord, I see hands
A whole lot of prayers and faces
Reachin’ up, but not qui-ite touchin’ the promised land
Hey, I see a whole lot of friendly hearts
An’ a whole lot of kind faces say
Please, Lord, give us a helpin’ hand
15. GETTING MY HEART BACK TOGETHER AGAIN (aka Hear My Train A Comin’)
Hey, I went down to my home town
My old-lady don’t want me around
I said “It’s too bad, baby, you don’t want me arou-ound”
I’m goin’ on the road and be a Voodoo chile
A magic boy, yeah!
I’m gonna get off my ass and try to do somethin’ to me
I just ain’t gonna sit around and smoke an’-uh, protest
Hey-he-ey, blue haze,
Hey-hey-hey, hey-hey
I wait around the train station
Waiting for that train
To take me
Take me awa-ay
From this lonesome town
If my girl don’t want me around
Don’t want me around
I’ll leave town
And come back and be a Voodoo chile
Hey-a-hey-hey-yeah
16. VOODOO CHILD (SLIGHT RETURN)
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And chop it down with the edge of my hand
I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even raise a little sand*
Hey
‘Cause I’m a Voodoo chile, Voodoo chile
Lord knows, I’m a Voodoo chile, baby
* ‘Raise sand’ - expression meaning to cause a disturbance, get angry etc.
[Solo]
Jimi – guitar & vocal, Bob Arthur – bass, Buddy drums, Lee Oskar – harmonica Snooky Flowers & Terry Clements – sax (16mm film partially synched (beautifully) by jamminjimi)
17. “JAM WITH HORNS” [aka “EXPRESS HORNS JAM” & “FAST JAM”]
[Instrumental]
…
18. “I GOT TO FIND A WAY” (George ‘Buddy’ Miles)
My baby’s gone away
Got to go away
Lord, I got to find away, yeah
Find away
Don’t sleep at all
You never heard screams at night, yeah
But kee-eep o-on dyin’ down
And did that album say
You know that I’m goin’ insa-ane, yeah
Everybody say yeah
Oo-ooh
Uh-huh-oo
19. “WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT” (music: ‘Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Goin’ On’ by Jerry Lee Lewis?, different ad-
libbed lyric George ‘Buddy’ Miles)
Yeah
I said now
I’m waitin’ on my baby
Surely gonna fake a song
She said now
Some one want my baby
To surely never make a song, yeah
But she’s supplyin’ to the man
She don’t know what it’s all abou-out
It’s over, it’s over
I’m gonna testify
I’m afraid I’m gonna put it about
Yeah-yeah-yeah!
I’m gonna tell you about my baby
I’m gonna tell her what this song is all about
When she finds she’s fallen in love
She’s gonna see what I’m talkin’ about, now
[Solo/jam, quotes OUTSIDE WOMAN BLUES & SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE ([John] ‘Jack’ Bruce, Pete Brown & Eric Clapton)]
20. COME ON (PART 1) (Earl ‘King’ (Johnson)
People talkin’ but they just don’t know
What’s in my heart and why I love you so, chile
You got me flippin’ like a flag on a pole
Come on sugar let the good times ro-o-oll
[Solo/jam, quotes THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER (music: ‘The Anacreontic Song’ by John Stafford Smith)]
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