Title: The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Album: Are You Experienced
Email: stuart_armstrong2@hotmail.com
Tuned half a step up,but you can play it in standard tuning. I do all the verses pretty much like the first one so i've just typed the lyrics where
the verses are. Sorry if its a bit out of line but when i modify it, it is fine and then as soon as its on the site, its all weird!!!
INTRO
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VERSE 1
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When the jacks are all in their boxes, and the clowns have all gone to bed.
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You can hear happiness walking down the street.
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Footsteps dressed in red, and the wind whispers, Mary.
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VERSE 2
A broom is drearily sweeping, up the broken pieces of yesterdays life. Somewhere a queen is weeping,
Somewhere a king has no wife, and the wind cries, Mary.
SOLO
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VERSE 3
The traffic lights they turn all blue tomorrow, and shine their emptiness down upon my bed.
A tiny island drifts downstream, cos the life that lived, is dead, and the wind it screams! Mary.
VERSE 4
And will the wind ever remember, the names it has blown in the past? And with this crutch, this old age, and this wisdom.
It whispers no, this will be the last, and the wind cries Mary.
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I usually end the song something like this but you can improvise as much as you want in most of Hendrix’s music. Enjoy my hard rocking
amigo’s!
