Electric Ladyland. The Jimi Hendrix Experience.




1. . . .And the gods made love.

(Instrumental).


2. Have you ever been (to Electric Ladyland).

Have you ever been (have you ever been) to Electric Ladyland? The magic carpet waits for you so don't you be late. Oh, (I wanna show you) the different emotions, (I wanna run to) the sounds and motions. Electric woman waits for you and me, so it's time we take a ride, we can cast all of your hang-ups over the seaside, while we fly right over the love filled sea, look up ahead, I see the loveland, soon you'll understand.

Make love, make love, make love, make love. The angels will spread their wings, spread their wings. Good and evil lay side by side while electric love penetrates the sky, lord, lord I wanna show you. Hmm, hmmm, hmmm. Show you.


3. Crosstown traffic.

You jump in front of my car when you, you know all the time that ninty miles an 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 ride. 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'm tryin' to get on the other side of town.

I'm not the only soul who's accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across your back, I can see you had your fun but darlin' can't you see my signals turn from green to red and with you I can see 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, 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.


4. Voodoo Chile.

Well, I'm a voodoo chile, lord I'm a voodoo chile. Well, the night I was born, lord I swear the moon turned a fire red. The night I was born, I swear the moon turned a fire red. Well my poor mother cried out "lord, the gypsy was right!", and I seen her fell down right dead (have mercy). Well, mountain lions found me there waitin' and set me on a eagles back. Well, mountain lions found me there and set me on a eagles wing. (Its' the eagles wing, baby, what did I say) He took me past to the outskirts of infinity, and when he brought me back he gave me a venus witch's ring. Hey! And he said "Fly on, fly on", because I'm a voodoo chile, baby, voodoo chile.Hey!

Well, I make love to you and lord knows you'll feel no pain. Say, I make love to you in your sleep and lord knows you felt no pain (have mercy). 'Cause I'm a million miles away and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame (yeah! What did I say now). 'Cause I'm a voodoo chile, lord knows I'm a voodoo chile.Well my arrows are made of desire from far away as Jupiters sulphur mines. Say my arrows are made of desire, desire from far away as Jupiters sulphur mines (way down by the Methabe Sea, yeah). I have a humming bird and it hums so loud, you think you were losing your mind, hmmm...

Well I float in liquid gardens and Arizona new red sand (Yeah). I float in liquid gardens, way down in Arizona red sand. Well, I taste the honey from a flower named Blue, way down in California. And the n New York drowns as we hold hands. 'Cause I'm a voodoo chile, lord knows I'm a voodoo chile. Yeah!


5. Little miss strange.

No one knows where she comes from, maybe she's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes. Little miss strange, little miss strange. Little miss strange came into my parlor, I don't know just what to ask her, I don't remember what we did after. Little miss strange, little miss strange. Little miss strange came out of the darkness, walked across my head, I stood beneath the light. I'm talkin' 'bout the dream I had the other night. Little miss strange, little miss strange.


6. 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.


7. Come on (let the good times roll).

People talkin' but they just don't know, what's in my heart, and why I love you so. I love you baby like a miner loves gold. Come on sugar, let the good times roll (Let the good times roll). So many people live in make believe, they keep a lot a going up their sleeves. But my love baby is no kind that folds. Come On Baby, let the good times roll (let the good times roll). Let the good times roll, oh come on baby, come on baby andlet daddy do you so. Hey yeah, baby let the good times roll.

A love is nice if it's understood, it's even nicer when you're feelin' good. You got me flippin' like flag on a pole, come on sugar, let the good times roll. Let the good times roll, hey! Let the good times roll, let me show a baby, let the good times roll.


8. Gypsy eyes.

Well I realize that I've been hypnotized, I love your gypsy eyes, I love your gypsy eyes. Alright! Hey! Gypsy. Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire, wond'rin' where in this world might you be and knowin' all the time you're still roamin' in the country side. Do you still think about me? Oh my gypsy.

Well I walked right on to your rebel roadside, the one that rambles on for a million miles. Yes I walk down this road searchin' for your love and ah my soul too but when I find ya I ain't gonna let go. I remember the first time I saw you, the tears in your eyes look like they're tryin' to say: Oh little boy you know I could love you but first I must make my get away. Two strange men fightin' to the death over me today, I'll try to meet cha by the old highway. Hey!

Well I realize that I've been hypnotized, I love your gypsy eyes. I love your gypsy eyes, I love your gypsy eyes, I love your gypsy eyes. Alright! I've been searchin' so long my feet have made me lose the battle, down against the road my weary knees they got me. Off to the side I fall but I hear a sweet call, my gypsy eyes is comin' and I've been saved. Oh I've been saved, that's why I love you uh. Said I love you, hey! Love you uh, lord I love you. Hey!


9. Burning of the midnight lamp.

The morning is dead and the day is, too. There's nothing left here to meet me but the velvet moon. All my loneliness I have felt today it's like 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 hangin' on my frowning wall. It really doesn't, really doesn't bother me too much at all, it's just the ever falling dust. That makes it so hard for me to see that forgotten earring layin' on the floor. Facing coldly towards the door. I continue to burn the midnight lamp, lord, alone. Loneliness is such a drag.

So here I sit to face that same old fire place gettin' ready for the same old explosion, goin' through my mind. And soon enough time will tell about the circus in the wishing well. And someone who will buy and sell for me, someone to toll my bell. But I continue to burn the midnight lamp, lord, alone. Darlin' can't ya hear me callin' you? So lonely. Gonna have to blow my mind, lonely.


10. Rainy day, dream away.

Hey man, take a look out the window 'n' see what's happ'nin', hey man, it's rainin', it's rainin' outside man. Aw, don't worry 'bout that, everything's gonna be everything, we'll get into somethin' real nice you know, sit back and groove on a rainy day. Yeah, yeah I see what you mean brother, lay back and groove. Rainy day, dream away, ah let the sun take a holiday. Flowers bathe an' ah see the children play, lay back and groove on a rainy day.

Well I can see a bunch of wet creatures, look at them on the run, the carnival traffic noise it sings the tune splashing up 'n', even the ducks can groove rain bathin' in the park side pool and I'm leanin' out my window sill diggin' ev'rything. And ah and you too. Rainy day, rain all day, ain't no use in gettin' uptight. Just let it groove its own way, let it drain your worries away yeah. Lay back and groove on a rainy day hey, lay back and dream on a rainy day.


11. 1983 . . .(A merman I should turn to be).

Hurrah I awake from yesterday alive but the war is here to stay. So my love Catherina and me decide to take our last walk through the noise to the sea. Not to die but to be re-born away from a life so battered and torn.... Forever... Oh say can you see its really such a mess, every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencil and lip-stick tube shaped things continue to rain and cause screaming pain. And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red as our feet find the sand and the sea is strait ahead.. Strait ahead..... Well its too bad that our friends cant be with us today. Well thats too bad “the machine that we built would never save us", that's what they say (That's why they aint coming with us today). And they also said "it's impossible for man to live and breath underwater… Forever" was their main complaint (Yeah).

And they also threw this in my face, they said “Anyway, you know good well, it would be beyond the will of God and the grade of the King (Grace of the King yeah yeah)”. So my darling and I make love in the sand to salute the last moment. Ever on dry land our machine has done its work, played its part well without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell. Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile. Before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise of the out of style... The out of style, out of style.


12. Moon, turn the tides… Gently, gently away.

Moon, turn the tides... Gently, gently away, so down and down and down and down and down and down we go. Hurry my darling we mustn't be late for the show. Neptune champion games to an aqua world is so very dear, right this way smiles a mermaid, I can hear atlantis full of cheer. Atlantis full of cheer, I could hear Atlantis full of cheer, lord thank you.


13. Still raining, still dreaming.

Rainy day, rain all day. Ain't no use in gettin' uptight, just let it groove its own way. Let it drain your worries away yeah, lay back and groove on a rainy day hey. Lay back and dream on a rainy day, lay back and groove on a rainy day. Lay back. Oh yeah ! Lay back and groove on a rainy day, lay back and groove on a rainy day. Lay back and dream on a rainy day, lay back and groove on a rainy day, lay back and dream on a rainy day. Lay back and, lay back, lay back, lay back and groove.

Ooh, Aaaah ! Lay back and groove on a rainy day, lay back and groove on a rainy day. Lay back and groove on a rainy day, lay back and groove on a rainy day, lay back and dream on a rainy day. Still rainin' still dreamin'.


14. House burning down.

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey. Look at the sky turn a hell fire red, somebody's house is burnin' down down, down down. Down, down, down. Well I asked my friend where is that black smoke comin' from? He just coughed and changed the subject and said oh wa I think it might snow some. So I left him sippin' his tea an' I jumped in my chariot and rode off to see just why and who could it be this time. Sisters and brothers daddys mothers standin' 'round cryin', when I reached the scene the flames were makin' a ghostly whine. So I stood on my horse's back an' I screamed without a crack, I say oh baby why'd you burn your brother's house down?

Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! Look out the sky turn a hell fire red Lord, somebody's house is burnin' down down, down down. Look out the sky turn a hell fire red Lord, somebody's house is burnin' down down, down down down. Well someone stepped from the crowd he was nineteen miles high, he shouts retired and disgusted so we paint red through the sky. I said the truth is straight ahead so don't burn yourself instead, try to learn instead of burn, hear what I say, yeah, yeah. So I fin'ly rode away but I'll never forget that day, 'cause when I reached the valley I looked way down cross the way, a giant boat from space landed with eerie grace. And came and taken all the dead away.

Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! What'd I say. Look at the sky turn a hell fire red Lord, somebody's house is burning down down, down down. Look at the sky turn a hell fire red Lord, somebody's house is burning down down, down down. Look at the sky, look at the sky. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Oh baby.


15. All along the watchtower.

There must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the theif. There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief. Business men they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. No one will level on the line, nobody of it is worth. No reason to get exited, 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 stop talking falsely now, the hour's getting late. Hey.

All along the watchtower, the princess kept the view. While all the women came and went bare feet servants too. Outside in the cold distance, a wild cat did growl. Two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl. Hey, oh. All along the watchtower, hear you sing around the watch. Gotta beware gotta beware I will, yeah, oh baby, all along the watchtower.


16. Voodoo child (slight return).

Well, I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand. Yeah. Well, I stand up next to a mountain and I 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.Yeah.

'Cause I'm a voodoo child, lord knows I'm a voodoo child baby. I want to say one more last thing, I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time. I'll give it right back to ya one of these days. Hahaha. I said I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time, I'll give it right back one of these days. Oh yeah.

If i don't meet you no more in this world then uh, I'll meet ya on the next one. And don't be late, don't be late. 'Cause I'm a voodoo child voodoo child, lord knows I'm a voodoo child. Hey hey hey. I'm a voodoo child baby, I don't take no for an answer. Question no, yeah.


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Año: 1968.
Procedencia de la banda: Seattle (Washington), Estados Unidos.
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