Tuesday 05 September 1967
Stockholm, ‘Tonárskvall’ [‘Teenage Night’] Radiohuset [Radio House], Sweden
First live recording of ‘Burning Of the Midnight Lamp’

1. SERGEANT PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (J. Lennon & P. McCartney)          
                                                                                                                                             [backing vocal Noel]

Two, three…

It was twenty years ago today
Sergeant Pepper told the band to play
They’ve been goin’ in an’ out of style
But they’re guaranteed to bring a smile
So may I introduce to you
Been together all these years
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
(Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)

I don’t really wanna stop the show 
I think you might like to know
We got a singer’s gonna sing the song 
He wants you all to join along
So may I introduce to you
One and only Billy Shears
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
(Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)

Noel: Thank you very much 
Jimi : Yeah, thank you very much, That was our own little thing of…thank you very much, 
we’d like to go ahead on with a toon named-uh ‘Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire’, it goes something like this here, one, pop! two. One, two, three…

2. FIRE  [Backing vocal - Noel]

All right baby, dig this now, yeah
Yeah
You don’t care for me, I don’t-uh care about that  
You’ve got a new fool hah, I like to laugh at
I have only one-uh, burnin’ desire
Let me stand next to your… [plays a string bend]
Let me stand next to your fire 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand, babe
(Let me stand next to your fire) Hey, let me stand 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Woa-oa, let me stand
(Let me stand next to your fire) Yeah.

Now, listen here baby and 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-uh, itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your… [plays whammy bend] 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Hey, let me stand, babe 
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me sta-and
(Let me stand next to your fire) Woa-oa, let me stand 
(Let me stand next to your fire) 

Oh, move over Rover* and let Jimi take over
You know what I’m talkin’ about, yeah

Yeah

That’s what I’m talkin’ about, hey now
Now dig this

Say you’ve got some money 
You’d better save it babe
Save it for your rainy day
I have only one-uh itchin’ desire
Let me stand n ext to your… [plays whammy bend]
(Let me stand next to your fire) Woa let me stand, babe  
(Let me stand next to your fire) Woa-oa let me stand 
(Let me stand next to your fire)… Yeah
(Let me stand next to your fire, ow) 

*From ‘Stoop Down Baby’ aka ‘Two Old Maids’ (Chick Willis?): “Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard… But when she bent over Rover took over. ‘Cause you know he had a bone of his own” ha-ha-ha. Jimi covered this at least five times from 1965 to 1970. He also get’s a mention in ‘Highway of Broken Hearts’ & ‘Keep On Groovin’ This coupled with the story of Jimi asking if their dog could be moved so he could warm himself at the fire in Noel’s mother Margaret’s house at New Year 1966/67,  would appear to be the inspiration

Jimi: Thank you very much. So right now we’d like to slow it down a little bit and do one of 
         the toons we recorded as a single, it’s a little thing called ‘The Wind Cries ‘Mary’…

3. THE WIND CRIES MARY

After all the Jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have a-all gone to bed
You can hear happiness 
Staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wi-ind it whispers, “Mary”

A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a Queen is weeping
Somewhe-ere a King has no wife
And the wi-ind it cries, “Mary”

[Solo]

The traffic lights they turn a blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags down stream
‘Cause the life they’d lived is, is dead
And the wi-ind it screams, “Mary”

Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past?
And with its crutch, it’s old age and it’s wisdom
And it whispers “No this will be the last”
And the wi-ind it cries, “Mary”

Jimi : Yeah, baby
Noel: Thank you very much
Jimi : Yeah, okay then, we’d like to proceed on with a little toon from our LP, it’s named ‘Foxy Lady’…

4. FOXY LADY [Backing vocal - Noel]

Now you know you’re a cute little heart breaker
(Foxy) 
And you know you’re a sweet little love maker 
(Foxy)
I’m gonna take you home
oh-I won’t do you no ha-arm, no
You’ve got to be all mine ha-ha, all mine
Ooh! foxy lady
Yeah

(Foxy) 

(Foxy) 

Now, I see you, I’m down on the scene
Oh foxy
(Foxy)
You make me, wanna get up and scream!...yeah
(Foxy)
Oh, baby, listen now
I’ve made up my mind
I’m tired of wastin’ all my, precious ti-ime, yeah
You’ve got to be all mine
Ooh! foxy lady… yeah 

I’m gonna take you home
oh-I won’t do you no harm, all right 
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh! foxy lady

Here I come baby
I’m comin’ to get ya
(Foxy)
Oh, you look so good
(Foxy)
Oh, foxy
(Foxy)
Lady
(Foxy)

Noel: Thank you very much, off the LP
Jimi : Thank you very much, like to do the song now that really got us into something, little  
          song called ‘Hey Joe’…

5. HEY JOE (William ‘Billy’ Roberts)

Hey-hey Joe, I said, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?
Hey-hey Joe, I said where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?
Yeah

I’m goin’ down to shoot my old lady
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round with another man
Yeah
I’m going down to shoot my old lady
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round with another man
An’ that ain’t too cool
 
Hey-hey Joe, I heard you shot your lady down
You shot her down on the groud, yeah
Hey-hey Joe, I said, I heard you shot your lady down
You shot her down, yeah
Yes I did, I shot her 
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round town
Yeah
Yes I did, I shot her 
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round town
And I gave her the gun, I shot her 

[Solo]

Yeah

Yeah

Hey-hey Joe 
Oh, where you gonna run to now, where you gonna go?
Hey-ey Joe, I said 
Where you gonna run to now, where you gonna go?
Yeah
An’ then what’d he say to me
I’m goin’ way down south, way down to Mexico way
Yeah
I’m goin’ way down south, wa-ay 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 
Yeah, you’d better believe it, baby
I’ve got to go now
Hey, hey-ey Joe, you’d better run on down 
You’d better, goodbye everybody
Hey

Noel: Ta
Jimi : Thank you very much, thank you very much, now-uh while your ears are still ringing we’d like to go on ha-ha and do another little toon called ‘I Don’t Live Today’ dedicated to the American Indian heh-heh
Noel: Ha-ha-ha
Jimi : Oh yes, one, two, one, two, three, four…

6. I DON’T LIVE TODAY [Dedicated to the (Native) American “Indians”. Backing vocal - Noel]

Will I live tomorrow? well I just ca-an’t say
Will I live tomorrow-wo-ow? well I just ca-an’t say 
Well, I know for su-ure, I don’t live today

No sun comin’ through my windo-ow
Feel like I’m livin’ at the bottom of a grave 
No-o sun comin’ through my windo-ow
Feel like I’m livin’ at the bottom of a grave
I wish you’d hurry up and execute me
So I can be on my miserable way
I do-on’t, live today 
(I do-on’t, live today)
Maybe tomorrow, I just can’t tell you, baby, but-uh
I do-on’t, live toda-ay
(I do-on’t, live today)
Maybe-uh spend your life away like this

Existing

Well, (I do-on’t) live toda-ay 
Maybe tomorrow I, just can’t say but-uh
Well
I do-on’t, live toda-ay 
(I do-on’t, live today)
It’s such a shame to waste your time away like this
Existing, nothing but existing

Yeah, yeah

Oh, there ain’t no life nowhere

Noel: Thank you very much, groovy
Jimi : We’d like to do our uh-um latest release, little thing called ‘Burning The Midnight Lamp’ it’s the first time we ever did it in front of people, there you go hit it now, huh…

7. BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP

The morning is dead and the day is too
There’s nothing left here to leave me, but the velvet Moo-oon  
All my loneliness I have felt today
It’s a little more than enough, to make a man, throw himself away, an’
An’ I continue, to burn the midnight la-amp, alo-one

Now the smiling portrait of you
Is still hanging on my frowning wa-all
It really doesn’t, it really doesn’t bother me too much at all
It’s just the ah, ever falling dust, that makes it so hard for me to see
That forgotten earring laying on the floor
Facing coldly toward the door
And I continue, to burn the midnight lamp, all alo-o-one 
Burn

Yeah, yeah
Lonely

Loneliness is such a drag

Now, here I sit to face, that same old fireplace 
Gettin’ ready for that 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

And I continue, to burn the same old lamp, Lord alo-o-one
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Darlin’ can you hear me calling you?
So-o lonely, got to blow my mind 
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Lonely, lonely

Jimi: Yeah thank you very much, so now we’d like to do our last number and say thanks a lot for comin’ anyway, and listening, it’s a song named ‘Purple Haze’…

8. PURPLE HAZE  [Backing vocal - Noel]

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things don’t seem the same
I’m actin’ funny, but I don’t know why
‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy

Purple haze all around 
Don’t know if I’m comin’ up or down.
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me 
Yeah ha-ha

Help me, baby
Help me baby, yeah

[Solo]

(Ooh aah, ooh aah, ooh aah, ooh aah) 

Yeah
Purple haze all in my eyes
Don’t know if it’s-uh day or night.
You’ve got me blowin’, blowin’ my mind.
Is it-uh tomorrow or just the end of time?

Help me, no
Tell me baby, yeah
Yea-eah, purple haze
               (Purple haze)
Yea-eah, purple haze
               (Purple haze)
Oh, baby, you got me blowin’ my mind 
(Purple haze)
Not necessarily stoned but beautiful
(Purple haze)

(Ooh aah, ooh aah, ooh aah, ooh aah) 
….