Sunday 25 May 1969
San Jose, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, California, USA. JHE

[Aud = Audience]

Jimi : We’d like for you-uh, start a new thing, it’s like, for you to forget everything that was 
goin’ on yesterday, or last night, or today, and just, let’s make our own little world, right here, by pure vibrations…
Aud : [En masse] Yeah! [etc.] 
Jimi : …an’ see what happens [hits a loud chord]… You can stay and watch this karma video 
with me [tuning]… Wild [tuning]… 

1. GETTING MY HEART BACK TOGETHER AGAIN [aka HEAR MY TRAIN A COMIN’]

Yeah, well, then you’ll watch me from a car

This is a story about a, about a cat, his old-lady put him down, you know, and the family don’t want him around, so he could do-what the Hell, man. Once he went out all around, he’s singin’ the blues. He says, so I can get myself together, man,  do my thing, an-uh, but do it properly, don’t come back soon, and the cat went off defended Voodoo chile, for bein’ a magic boy, and come back and buy the town, you know, Hell, give a piece to his old-lady, ‘cause she makes love to him one more time, you know

Ha-ha

Well I, I wait around the train station 
Waitin’ for that train
To take me 
Take me awa-ay 
From this lonesome town
Hey, baby!

Too bad you don’t love me no more, girl
Too bad your people put me dow-own 
Put me down 

Tears burnin’ me
Tears burnin’ me in my eyes
Way down 
Way down in my soul, I says
Tears burnin’ we [sic] 
Way down in my soul 

Too bad you don’t love me no more, girl
Too bad your people made me go-o 
Hey, yeah-yeah

Yeah, well
I hear my train comin’ 
Hear my train a comin’ 
Well, I hear my train a comin’
I hear my train a comin’ 
[Solo/improvisation]

Hear my train comin’ 
Hear my soft train comin’ chile

Wro-ong wish, baby

We a-all got our ti-ime

I’m gonna leave this town
I’ve got to leave this town
Go out on the highway
And make a Voodoo chile of myself
Be a magic boy, yeah
And come back and buy this town
Come back and buy this town, yeah
And put it [tok] all in my shoe

What I’m gonna do
And, if you make love to me one more time, girl
I might even give a piece to you
Hey-ey, hey-yeah
Hey-hey-hey-hey, a-hey-a-hey

Well, I
Hear my train comin’
I hear my train comin’ 
Hear my train comin’ 
Lord, hear my train comin’
Lord, hear my train 
Hear my train
Hear my train
Hear my train

[Solo, guitar ‘says’ ‘It’s been fuckin’ good Jimi – You’re right’] 

Hear my train 
Hear my train 
Hear my freedom train 

Hey-hey-hey-o-yeah
Hey-hey-hey-i-yay

Hear my train a comin’

Jimi : [Tape cut] …Stand Next To Your, Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire, okay…	

2. FIRE > [Inaudible backing vocal – Noel’s mic’ is dead]

All right, listen here, baby, I’ve got to say something
Yea-heh-eah
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 … [inhales]

[No chorus, mic’s have broken down]

[Off mic’:]  “Listen here, baby”

[Solo/improvisation]

Aud : [Guy] Turn on the mic’!

[Drum solo]

Aud : [Applause (for microphone guy)] 

Noel: One, two. Fire

Aud : [Applause & cheers] 

3. < SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC [Jimi’s mic’ is still not working propery]

It’s very far away 
Takes about a half a day to get there
If we travel by my ffup!! dragonfly
It’s not in Spain, baby
But all the same you know it’s a groovy name 
And the wind's just right 

Hang on my darlin’, hang o-on if you wanna go-o-o
Baby, sock it to me
A whole lot of fun, you know 
Bring your mother too I feel
Spanish Castle magic

It’s really very low 
And they overflow
With cotton beards 
But sometimes battle grounds 
Red and brown, ha-ha
But it’s all in your mind, baby
Don’t waste your time thinkin’ about bad things
Just float your little mind around
Hey!

Hang on my darlin’, hang o-on if you wanna go-o
See, if I see you all wearing cotton
They appreciated it
Spanish Castle magic

[Solo/Improvisation]

[Drum solo]

Hang on my darlin’, hang on if you wanna go-ho-ho
…….? serious, now
…… ?
Little bit of Spanish Castle magic
Little bit of Spanish Castle magi-ic

Jimi?: [Barely audible] Could you come on up here, could you….?
?       : Somebody spewed on our lights, so could you come up here?
Jimi  : [Tuning] Yeah, we’d like to go back in time, back to 17841 in the Benjamin Franklin2 
Studios, when we recorded this thing called Red House [aside:] “Supposed to be loud”
Aud : [Applause & cheers]
Jimi : [Tuning]…

1 Fortythird recorded mention of Jimi referring to some of his early singles and songs off his first LP (most 
  frequently ‘Red House’ or ‘Hey Joe’) as being recorded over a hundred years ago. Probably a reference to 
  Elmore James’  strange 1954 song ‘1839 Blues’ which starts with him singing in a weird voice: 

 “Hey Joe… you know I’m a young man this time
  And you know I ain’t seen my baby since 1839
  I got to find her. What you say?”
  ….
2 Fourteenth recorded mention of Jimi referring to Benjamin Franklin and to The BF Studios. (Been jammin’?) 
 ‘Benjamins’ is slang for hundred dollar bills &  therefore making lot’s of money. This is the highest denomination 
  dollar bill and is graced with Franklin’s portrait. He experimented with electricity, played the guitar, invented an 
  ethereal spooky sounding instrument the ‘armonica’ - a revolutionary development of the ‘glass harmonica’, 
  and was one of the leading American revolutionists, second only to George Washington 

4. RED HOUSE

There’s a red house over yonder, baby
Aud : [Applause]
Lord, that’s where my baby stay-ay
He-ey, yea-eah
Lord, there’s a red house over yonder, chile, now-ow
Come-ha-on
Where my baby stay-y-yeah
Now my baby’s dead
Lord, I ain’t been home to see my fat baby
‘Cause I was in jail, you know
For a, ninety nine and one half da-ays *
Yeah, it’s a whole lot o’ time
Yeah

Hey! wait a minute somethin’s wro-ong, chile 
Said now, somethin’s wrong, the key won’t unlock this door
Awe… uunh
Hey-yeah, hey-yeah, hey
Wait a minute somethin’s wro-o-ong 
Said now, somethin’s wrong, the key won’t unlock this door
Wait a minute somethin’s wro-ong 
Say now, the key won’t unlock this doo-oo-oor
Hey, I said I ain’t-uh, got a chance to see what’s goin’ o-on
Lord, I got a bad feelin’ my baby don’t live here no mo-o-ore
She ain’t said a damn thing about leavin’ either
That’s all right, I still got my guitar
Yeah

[Solo]

Yeah

Aud : [Applause & cheers] 

Hey, I think I’ll go back over yonder, baby
Hey, I think I’ll go back over yonder 
Way back over the hill
Hey-Lo-ord, baby’s dead
Lord, I think I’ll go back over yonder, baby
Yeah… okay
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Way back over yonder, across the hill

Yeah, if my baby don’t love me no more
Hey, I know, good an’ damn well, that her, her sister wi-i-ill

* Three month jail term

Jimi : Yeah, we know, we know what’s happening right now, but there’s a… Like to say 
something that, there’s a song recorded in the first LP, it’s a thing called I Don’t Live Today dedicated to all the American Indians, and you people, and us. This idea that, quite naturally, you know, that things are goin’ on badly here, but the idea is, getting’ your own self together [tuning], so you can be ready for the next world, because there is, you know, which’ll be bigger, so you might as well get it together. But let’s reflect on this crap that  they’ve jus’pulled on us right now, okay. We’ll just call it I Don’t Live Today Maybe Tomorrow, I Can’t Say heh
Aud : [Applause & cheers] 

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

Will I live tomorrow? Now, I just can’t say y’-all right
Hey-yeh! 
Will I live tomorrow-ow-ow? Well, I just can’t say-y’all right 
Well I know for damn sure, now I don’t live today, baby

No sun comin’ through my window
Feel like I’m livin’ at the bottom of a gra-ave 
Yeah, no sun comin’ through my windows
Feel like I’m livin’ at the bottom of a grave, fuck off
Yeah, well, I wish you’d hurry up and execute me 
So I can be on my miserable way

I do-on’t, live toda-ay 
(I do-on’t, live toda-ay)
Maybe tomorrow, I just can’t tell you, baby
I do-on’t, live toda-ay 
(I do-on’t, live toda-ay)
Such a shame to waste your time away like this
Living

But existing

 [Solo/ Improvisation, touches on 3rd STONE FROM THE SUN & REVEILLE (army bugle call)]

Well
I do-on’t, live toda-ay 
(I do-on’t, live toda-ay)
Maybe tomorrow, I just can’t tell you
I do-on’t, live toda-ay 
(I do-on’t, live toda-ay)
It’s a shame to waste your time away like this
Nothing but existing
Nothing but existing, baby

[Improvisation]
	
Aud : [Applause & cheers] 
…

Jimi : Yeah, thanks anyway [tuning] We’ll do this one, dedicated to the girl back there, the 
one, yeah, with the yellow underwear, yeah you, that’s right. Dedicate this funerals, let’s see now…

06. FOXY LADY  [Backing vocal - Noel] [incomplete end]

Hey!

You know you’re a sweet little love maker
Hey!
(Foxy) 
And you know you’re a sweet little love maker 
(Foxy)
I’m gonna take you home
I won’t do you no harm, no
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Wooh, foxy lady

(Foxy)

(Foxy)
I stayed with her, falling down The Scene
Hey
(Foxy lady)
You make me, wanna get up and scream
(Foxy)
Hey 
I’ve made up my mind
I’m tired of wastin’ all my, precious time 
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Wooh, foxy lady 

[Solo]

[Tape cut]

7. PURPLE HAZE  [Backing vocal - Noel] [incomplete at start]
                                                          
…
[Solo]

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

Hey!
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, baby, help me, baby
Really!
Yeah-yeah 
(Purple haze)
Yeah-yeah, purple haze 
(Purple haze)
Oh, baby you got me blowin’ my mind 
(Purple haze)
Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful

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

Yeah

Noel: Thank you very much
Jimi : [Tuning] The ‘man’, has told us that we only have one more song to go, so we’d like to 
say… 
Aud : [Much moaning]
Jimi : Hey, God, we only have one more song to go, so we’d like to say, man, it was really out 
of sight, anyway, regardless of what’s happenin’. We can just go on, an’ just dig our own thing happenin’ ‘tween “Do this”,  you know, just-uh, soul watchin, that’s all  it should be. It’s so groovy, man, to play in front of all these folks. Not like that! no, no, know what they say “Not in Miami Florida”$ … 
Aud : Wild Thing! Wild Thing!
Jimi : Probably you had enough
Aud : Wild Thing! 
Jimi : Hey, man, I know exactly what I’m gonna do, when I say toilet paper that’s when you 
come rollin’ out, okay [guitar ‘says’ ‘That’s why you shouldn’t talk to other people’]
Aud : Ha-ha [etc.]
Jimi : [Tuning] I love you too. Dig, we’d like to do this self assurance song, not coming from us 
to you, but coming from the message to you, a thing called Voodoo Child
Aud : [Cheers] 
Jimi : Before we, like, to leave, we’d just like-like to say thank you one more time, or 
we can say peace and happiness 
Aud : [Cheers & applause]…

$ 2nd reference to Jim Morrisons bust for obscenity on the 5th

8. VOODOO CHILD (Slight Return)

Well, I stand up next to a mountain and I
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain and I
I chop it down with the edge of my ha-and
I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even ‘raise a little sand’ *
Hear what I’m tellin’ you now
‘Cause I’m a Voodoo child
Lord knows, I’m a Voodoo child, baby
Hey!

[Jimi’s mic’ has completely gone again]

* ‘Raise sand’ - expression meaning to cause a disturbance, get angry etc.

[Solo]

Yeah

Hey

Aud : [Guy] Jimi Hendrix!

Stay away from me, man

I didn’t mean to take up all your sweet time
I’ll give it right back to you, one of these days
I didn’t mean to take up all your sweet time
I’ll give it right back, one of these da-ays
Hey-y, baby, now

If I don’t see you no more in this world
If I-I don’t see you no more in this world
If I can’t change this world? 
If I don’t see you no more in this wo-orld, mama
Hey
………………….? 
………………….?
………………….?
………………….?

I’m a Voodoo chile?
Lord, knows I’m a Voodoo chile?

[Guitar ‘says’ ‘That’s just bullshit’]

[Solo/Improvisation includes “FLAMENCO” bit and touch of VILLANOVA JUNCTION]

Yeah

< VOODOO CHILD (Slight Return) > [Reprise]
….

< ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS >

I used to live in a room full of mirrors
All I could see was me
Then I take my spirit and I smash my mirror
Now the whole world is here for me to see
Thank God everything is here for me to see

You got to
Hey-a-hey, yeah
Hey-a-hey, yeah
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah etc…

[Solo]

Yeah

[Guitar ‘says’ ‘Well do you like the Jimi Hendrix Experience’]
Aud : [Claps, whistles and shouts]

[Guitar ‘says’ ‘Fuck off please’]
…

[Tape cut]

< MESSAGE TO LOVE >

[Instrumental] 
…
Message to love
…

Jimi : Yeah, we’re finished now, we’re just jamming, you all can do whatever you want to do 
now, [spoken as a laugh:] “shut the fuck up” 
Aud : [Cheers] 
Jimi : Thank you very much, goodnight, thank you
Aud : [Applause & cheers] 

< ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS* (Reprise)>

I used to live in a room full of mirrors
All I could see was me
Then I took my spirit an’ I crashed my mirrors
Now the whole world is here for me to see
The whole world is here for me to see 

Broken glass was all my in my head
Janglin’, screamin’, tumblin’ in my head
Broken glass was a-all my in my hea-ead
It used to fall out my dreams and cut me in my bed
It used to fall out my dreams and cut me in my bed
Makin’ love wasn’t the same in my bed

Doo-diddle-diddle-doo-doo
…………?
…………? 
…………?

*On one level at least, a reference to breaking free from drugs - mirrors are what you use to chop out lines on –
 “ I took my spirit an’ I crashed my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.”

< THE SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE >

[Instrumental] 

Sunshine Of Your Love
…

[Tape cut]