Wednesday 06 October 1965
New York City, Studio 76/Dimentional Sound, 1650 Broadway, New York, USA 

Studio session 
Songs: How Would You Feel, Curtis Knight – vocal, tambourine [& rhythm guitar?], Jimmy – guitar, fuzz bass & harmony vocal and an unknown drummer, [Bernard “Pretty” Purdie – according to Curtis]
Welcome Home, Curtis Knight – vocal & tambourine, Jimmy - guitar & ‘audience’ [with others unknown] and others unknown – [bass & drums]
Composer: Curtis Knight 
Arranger  : Jimmy Hendrix 
Producer  : Ed Chalpin 
Engineer  : unknown

Released in 1966 on the RSVP 7’’ 45 single - ‘How Would You Feel / Welcome                    Home’          

Left to right at studio 76 in 1965: Johnny Starr?, Jimmy Hendrix, 
Curtis Knight, Ed Chalpin, Unknown

How Would You Feel 

This is a song that asks a question
And if you listen I think you’ll get the message

If you walked into a restaurant
You were hungry
An’ you had the money to get yourself somethin’ to eat
Yea-eah
And somebody told you to go round to the back door to get it
Even though he wasn’t gonna give it to you free
Yeah, yeah tell me how yea-eah o-oh
Oh how would you feel o-oh yea-eah
If you were me? yea-eah o-oh
Oh how would you feel
Think about it now

(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

You take your little children by the hand 
An’ you wanna guide ‘em and protect them

On their very first day of school  yea-eah
Now I just wanna ask one question
‘Do you think that all the little children should be punished
For the sins of all the older fools?’

Yeah ‘en, yeah ‘en tell me how yea-eah o-oh
Oh how would you feel o-oh yea-eah
If you were me? yea-eah o-oh
Oh how would you feel?
Think about it now
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

You walk to the corner
And you stand at the place called the bus stop
And the bus pulls up
And a man opens up the door yea-eah o-oh
He might huh look at you funny
But he takes some money
And then he says
‘Hey you’re not one of us, sit in the back of the bus’
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yeah tell me how yea-eah o-oh
Oh how would you feel yea-eah o-oh
If you were me no-ow yea-eah 
Uh-How would you feel o-oh yea-eah
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

One more thing I wanna tell you 

You pick up the mornin’ paper*
And you read about people fightin’ and dyin’
Somewhere in a foreign land [Vietnam] oh yea-eah
(I’m shakin’)
But right here people are fightin’ and dyin’
And all they’re tryin’ to do is get equal rights 
As the constitution planned yeah, yeah
Now tell me how yea-eah o-oh
Oh how would you feel yea-eah o-oh
If you were me?
Think about it now and tell me

How would you feel, yeah
If all your little children were tryin’ to do 
Was go to school, get an education
So that they could find a great place in this wonderful nation
And, If you went down town and people waited on you there
I mean served you, even though you new that they didn’t want you
And everywhere you looked around 
All you could see was hate in people’s eyes

And you tried to love ‘em
And you’re just tryin’ to understand one another

And get together and try to live happily 
And try to be brothers in this great big wonderful nation
Yeah, yeah tell me how yea-eah o-oh
Oh how would you feel? o-oh yea-eah
(Yeah, yeah tell me how…)

*This verse is the first to make an analogy with the struggle for civil rights in the US and the war in Vietnam, Jimi occasionally continued this analogy in his introductions at concerts initially for ‘Wild Thing’, then mostly for  Voodoo Chile or Machine Gun. “No Vietcong ever called me a Nigger,”: Mohammed Ali -  1966, on refusing conscription.

Single B side

Welcome Home [prediction for Jimi?]

(Yea-ea-eah. Got a feeling today. Yeah look out reverend Charleston what I’m sayin’ here. Hey, hey. Yeah, yeah)

I’ve been walkin’ down the highwa-ay, walkin’ all around
I’ve climbed a mountain, sailed the ocean, goin’ back to my home to-own
They’re gonna say ‘Welcome home boy, where you been?’
‘Gee it’s been a long, long time’, I said ‘You’re lookin’ good my friend’
They’re gonna say ‘Our favourite son, has returned’
Hmm-mm-mm ‘uh-Welcome home, welcome home’

I’ve been through all the changes, had my ups and downs
Seen the prettiest girls in The World, now I’m homeward bou-ound
They’re gonna say ‘Welcome home boy, where you been?’
‘Gee it’s been a long, long time’, I said ‘You’re lookin’ good my friend’
They’re gonna say ‘Our favourite son, has returned’
Oo-ooh, oo-ooh, oo-ooh, ‘Welcome home, welcome home’

Well I’m the guy who left my home and travelled all around
It wasn’t what I thought it’d be, so I’m gonna put it do-own
They’re gonna say ‘Welcome home, boy, uh-where you been?’
‘Gee it’s been a long, long time’, I said ‘You’re lookin’ good my friend’
They’re gonna say ‘Our favourite son, has returned’
Hmm-mm-mm uh-‘Welcome home, welcome home’

[After the solo Jimmy’s guitar ‘says’: ‘Thank You’]

Well I’m the guy who left my home and travelled all around
It wasn’t uh-what I thought it’d be, so I’m gonna put it do-own
They’re gonna say ‘Welcome home boy, where you been?’
‘Gee it’s been a long, long time’, I said ‘You’re lookin’ good my friend’
They’re gonna say ‘Our favourite son, has returned’
Hmm-mm-mm uh-‘Welcome home, welcome home’
‘You’re lookin’ good, good to see yuh’
‘Hello old friend, how you been?’
‘New girl in town, I’m gonna introduce yuh’
‘I know you’re gonna like her, she’ll like you too’
‘Come on in my house, gonna have a chicken dinner’
‘Got the new girl in town, you’re gonna dig her’
‘You’re lookin’ good, hello old friend’
‘Good to see yuh, where you been?’
‘When d’you get the new car?’
‘You got some nice clothes, you’re lookin’ good’
‘Good to see you, you’re lookin’ good’
‘Sure did miss yuh, how yuh been?’