21:00 Thursday 01 January 1970
2nd show The Fillmore East, New York City, New York, USA. BOG
MC: Wolfgang ‘Bill Graham’ Grajonsa

[Aud = Audience]

Bill: It’s a good feeling just bringing on old friends, on bass - Billy Cox, on drums - Mister 
Buddy Miles, on guitar and vocals the Jimi Hendrix, yes, bring on ‘A Band Of Gypsys’…

1. STONE FREE  [Backing vocals – Buddy & Billy]

Every day of the week I’m in a different city
If I stay too long the people try to pull me down, you know what I mean
They talk about me like a dog, talk about the clothes I wear
But they don’t realise, they don’t realise they’re the ones who’s square

And that’s why (That is why) 
You can’t hold me down (Gonna fly)
I don’t wanna be tied down (Gonna fly)
I gotta move on

Hey, I said stone free (Yeah)  to do what I please
Stone free to do what I please 
(Stone free) 
Stone free, I can’t stay I
(Stone free) 
I got to get away
Yeah

Listen here
Woman here, woman there, try to keep me in a plastic cage 
But they don’t realise, it’s so easy to break
Yeah but dig-uh
Sometimes I can feel my heart kind o' gettin’ hot, yeah
That’s when I’ve got to move, before I get caught

Hey and that’s why (That is why) 
You can’t hold me down (Gonna fly)
I don’t wanna be tied down (Gonna fly)
I gotta move on, yeah

I said stone free (Yeah) to do what I please
Stone free to ride the breeze 
(Stone free) 
Stone free, I can’t stay I
(Stone free) 
I got to get away

[Solo]

(Wow-ow-woo-ooh) [etc.]

I said stone free (Yeah) to do what I please
                                       (To do what I please)
Stone free to ride the breeze 
(Stone free I) 
Stone free, I can’t stay I
(Stone free I) 
Got to keep movin’ gotta get away
(Stone free I) 
I’m goin’ on down the highway baby
(Stone free I) 
I’m goin’ on down the highway baby

Stone free, yeah, I said-uh ride the breeze baby
Stone free, baby, I’m made to ride the breeze baby
I gotta be free baby
Woa I gotta be free baby
Way I gotta be free baby, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea-eah

Jimi: Yeah, happy New Year to you, I forgot to say it, thank you, man. Buddy Miles is  
         gonna do this thing he wrote called ‘Them Changes’

2. THEM CHANGES (music: ‘SING LADY SING’ by ‘The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble’  
                                          new lyric & title by George ‘Buddy’ Miles) [sung by Buddy]

…two. One, two, three…

Well my mind is goin’ through them changes
I feel just like committing a crime 
Every time you see me goin’ somewhere
I feel like I’m goin’ out of my mind, yeah

Oh my baby she left me the other day
And we were havin’ so much fun yeah, yeah
Oh my baby she stepped out on me
And that’s the reason she had me cryin’

It’s all right, yeah, hey now

Well my mind is goin’ through them changes
I think I’m goin’ out of my mind 
Every time you see me goin’ somewhere
I think I could commit a crime now

She had me runnin’, she had me cryin’ 
She had me runnin’, had me, had me, had me cryin’
She had me runnin’, she had me cryin’ 
She had me runnin’, she had me cryin’ 
 
It’s all right, yeah, yeah it’s all right
Can you clap a little louder
It’s all right, Lord I say it’s all right
Everything’s gonna be all right yeah
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right 
It’s all right, it’s all right, yeah
Yeah, yeah everybody yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 
Oh I know, oh I know you’re my love
Oh I know, know, said she’s all right
It’s all right baby, all right

Jimi: Buddy Miles there
Aud: New York’s burnin’ down!

3. POWER OF SOUL*  [Backing vocals – Buddy & Billy]

Yea-ah...

Shoot down some of those airplanes1 you been driving 
Especially the ones that are flyin’ too low
Shoot down some of those airpla-anes 
‘Specially the ones that are flyin’ too low 

Come on back up to Earth my friend
Come on back up with me
We all been up through the night time, baby
Now let’s reap the rays of reality

(With the power of sou-oul anything is possible)
(With the power of sou-oul anything is possible)

[Solo]

Flyin’ too much with one toy, babe 
Leads to a excape to a foggy ni-i-ight 
It’s so groovy to float around someti-i-imes
Even a jellyfish will tell you that
I said ‘floatation is groovy heh-heh and easy’
Even a jellyfish will agree to that
Yeah, but old jellyfish been floatin’ so long and so slack
Lord, he don’t got a bone in his jelly ba-a-a-ack
Floatin’ every day and every night ridin’ high
Yeah, it’s a risk, sometimes the wind ain’t right

...Yeah...

...Da doo da da, da da da da...

With the power of sou-oul anything is possible
With the power of sou-oul anything is possible
With the power of sou-oul anything is possible-uh
With the power of sou-oul anything is possible-uh
With the power of sou-oul    (With the power of you) 
Anything is possible             (Anything you wanna do)
With the power of you          (With the power of you) 
Anything that you wanna do (Anything that you wanna do babe)
Any power of sou-oul            (With soul, soul, soul) 
Anything is possible              (Soul, soul, soul)
With the power of sou-oul anything that you wanna do
With the power.

* Jimi’s big song about breaking free from hard drugs (mainly heroin) earlier titles were ‘Crash Landing’ &  
   ‘Paper Airplanes’  He also noted in “songs to try in studio” at # 9. Power of God --- Love to Devon
1 ‘Paper airplanes’ - reference to paper ‘wraps’ for powders (I think in this case heroin) airplane - flying high

Buddy: Jimi’s gonna do a thing that he, he wrote called ‘Message O’ Love’…

4. MESSAGE TO LOVE [Backing vocals – Buddy & Billy]

Well, we’re travellin’ at a speed of a reborn man
(Yeah, ooh)
We got a lot o’ love to give from the mirrors of my hand
(Yeah, ooh)
I said a message of love, don’t you run away
(Yeah, ooh)
Look at your heart baby, come on along with me today

Doo doo dee doodin doo doo
Doo doo dee doodin doo doo
Doo doo dee doodin doo doo
Doo doo dee doodin doo doo

Well I am what I am thank God
Some people just don’t understand
Well help them God
Find yourself first  and-uh then your tool
Find yourself first don’t you be no fool

Yeah ooh, yeah ooh, yeah ooh
Yeah ooh, yeah ooh, yeah ooh

Here comes a woman wrapped up in chain-uh
Messin’ with that fool baby, your life is pain          (Yeah ooh)
If you wanna be free-ee come on along with me  (Yeah ooh)
Don’t mess with the man he’ll never understand  (Yeah ooh) 
I said find yourself first and then your talent         (Yeah ooh)
Work hard in your mind for it to come alive          (Yeah ooh)
And then-uh prove to the ma-an you’re as strong as him
(Yeah ooh)
‘Cause in the eyes of God you’re both children to him
(Yeah ooh)

Doo doo doo doo doodin doodin doo...[etc.]

Everybody come alive (Doo doo doo dee doo)
Everybody love alive   (Doo doo doo dee doo)
Everybody love alive   (Doo doo doo dee doo) 
Everybody hear my message
(Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo)...Hey yah...

(Yeah ooh, yeah ooh, yeah ooh)
(Yeah ooh, yeah ooh, yeah ooh) 

Doo doo, doo doo, dee doodin doo doo...[etc.]
...doo doo dee doodin wa-oah!

Jimi: Yeah we’d like to try this thing out called-uh ‘Earth Blues Today’ goes bluh-luh-
         luh…[plays opening riff]

5. EARTH BLUES [Backing vocal - Buddy]

I see hands an-uh tear stained faces
Reachin’ up but not quite touchin’ the promised land
I see years and taste a whole lot of tears wasted
Sayin’ Lord, please give us a helpin’ hand
(Love, love, love)
Yeah it’s gonna be a long, long struggle 
(Love, love, love)
Whole lot of changes goin’ down
(Love, love, love)
Yeah I hope love is the answer
(Love, love, love)
Are you gonna waste this doggin’ around

Hear the sound of freedoms beatin’ heart
Sendin’ The Devil on the ru-un
You’d better love me my darlin’
Haven’t been fucked since the last time
And tell the child to sell her old Daddy’s clothes
(Love, love, love)
Way over the hill I see a woman, baby
(Love, love, love)
And she shines her light down on me
(Love, love, love)
Yeah is that love the answer
(Love, love, love)
Oh they tell me it better be

(Everybody)
Everybody
(Everybody)
Hear me baby
(Everybody)
Hear me sister
(Everybody)
Hear me brother
(Everybody)
Hear me lover
(Everybody)
Everybody 
(Everybody)
Come feel the light, yeah

[Solo]

6. MACHINE GUN*

Machine gun

Machine gu-un tearin’ my body all apa-art
He-ey machine gu-u-un tearin’ my, tearin’ my body all apa-art
Evil men make me kill you
Evil men make you kill me
Evil men make us kill, baby
Evil men, evil men make you kill me
Even though we’re families apa-art… yeah

Well, I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer
But your bullets keep cutting me down just the same
I said I throw down my axe and-uh fight like a farme-er
Fight like a farme-er, natural born farmer
Lord but your bullets cut me down just the same, just the sa-ame, in the ground
The same way you blow me and my-y mother
You’ll follow just the sa-a-a-a-ame-ame, just the same
Three times the pain
And you only got yourself to blame, baby, yeah
Machine gun, babe, (Yeah)

(Well they’re shootin’ him do-own)
After a while baby your bullets don’t even cause me pain
(Don’t shoot him do-own, don’t you, don’t you shoot him do-own yeah)
Wa-a-ah-wa-a-ah-yeah after a while
After a while your bullets don’t eve-en cau-ause me pai-ai-ain
Same way you blow us apart baby you’ll be goin’ just the sa-ame
Three times the pain
And your own self to bla-ame, yuk-yuk
Machine gu-un, yeah

*According to Jimi this addresses at least two subjects, one is war and the other is personal struggle  
 “People fighting wars within’ themselves.”

Jimi: Okay thanks a lot, y’all really sweet, we’re tryin’ to figure out something to play but 
we only know about s-six songs right now, seven, nine. Maybe more as seven. Oh, hit me a ‘A’, ‘A’. We’re gonna do the-uh moratorium [?], the Black Panthers*-ah national anthem, just goes-uh like this here…

*8th recorded direct reference to the Black Panthers

7. VOODOO CHILE (Slight Return)

Well, I stand up next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even ‘raise a little sand’*, yeah, yeah, yea-eah, yeah, ha-ha
‘Cause I’m a Voodoo child
I’m a Voodoo child, yeah

[Solo]

I didn’t mean to take up all your sweet time
I’ll give it right back, one of these days 
I, didn’t mean to take up all your sweet ti-ime
Give it right back-uh one of these days
If I don’t meet you no more in this world 
I’ll meet you on the next one and don’t be la-ate, don’t be la-ate
‘Cause I’m a Voodoo child
Lord knows I’m a Voodoo child, baby, yea-ea-eah

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

8. WE GOTTA LIVE TOGETHER  (George ‘Buddy’ Miles, based on Sly & the Family Stone’s ‘Sing A 
                                                                   Simple Song’ & ‘Everyday People’ (Sylvester ‘Sly Stone’ Stewart)   
                                                                      [sung by Buddy, backing vocal - Jimi]

We’d like to, we’d like to say that-uh…if you can…we’d like just…for you to clap 
your hands one more time…and sing along with us…a little rhyme…that we hope that you can remember, and it goes like this, and if you will follow after a couple of times, it will be deeply appreciated, then we know that you can feel it

We gotta live together…we gotta live together
Everybody……………... we gotta live together
We gotta live together… we gotta live together
(We got to live)
We gotta live together…stand up now
(We got to live)
We gotta live together…stand on up and say
(We got to live)
We gotta live together…everybody singin’
(We got to live)
We gotta live together…(We gotta love)
Woa
We gotta live together…(We gotta live)
Everybody sing…………we gotta live together
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(We got to live)
We gotta live together…yeah, yeah
We gotta live together…oh
We gotta live together…everybody now
We gotta live together…we gotta live together
We gotta live together…we gotta live 

Listen…listen…listen…we’d like to see everybody
That means everybody in the house…stand up on your feet
And just say to yourself…that all of us…all of us in the house
Everybody, everybody over there, everybody up here, everybody out there
Everybody up there, everybody sing
‘Cause we gotta do it, y’all 
‘Cause you know the time, the time for us is now
We gotta stop bull shittin’ and get down to business
And we gotta say.”

We gotta live together…go on and sing it now-ow-ow
We gotta live together…stomp your feet
We gotta live together…woa…we gotta live together, yeah
We gotta live together…woa…we gotta live together, yeah
(We gotta live together) 
We gotta live together…woa…we gotta live together, yeah
(We gotta live together) 
We gotta live together…………we gotta live together
(We gotta live together) 

Hope you too can say…I hope everybody feels the way we do
‘Cause we feel that everybody, everybody can live together
Go on and start something new-ew…now.”
We gotta live together…go on and start something new…now
We gotta live together…let me hear everybody say
We gotta live together…one more time now
We gotta live together…just a little bit louder
We gotta live together…we gotta live together
We gotta live together…with a beat now
We gotta live together…yeah, yeah
We gotta live together
We gotta live together…every day people
We gotta live together…we gotta live together. Yeah
We gotta live together…(We gotta love together)
We gotta live together…(We gotta live together)

We gotta live together
We gotta live together…we gotta live, gotta live
(Gotta love together)…..yeah, yeah…yeah, yeah
We gotta live together…everybody sa-ay
We gotta live together…don’t be afrai-aid
We gotta live together…everybody-y
We gotta live together…at-uh midni-i-ight
We gotta live together…feel like I’m in church right no-ow
We gotta live together…hope everybody’s feelin’ goo-oo-ood
We gotta live together…I’m feelin’ all ri-ight
We gotta live together…whoo!
We gotta live together

(Jimi: Sing it yourselves, sing it yourselves, it’s up to y’all, it’s up to y’all, so sing it)

(You gotta live)………...A little louder
(You got to free up)
As loud as you can now! everybody
We gotta live together
We gotta live together
We gotta live together…whoo!
We gotta live together…yeah, yeah…yeah, yeah

Don’t forget now…everybody…you can dig what we’re tryin’ to say
You can remember one thing …I think it will go on stonger as people
As individuals, if we can get up and, and think and live together
And respect one another for what we really are
‘Cause we’re livin’ in weird times…and we’ve got to take care of some business
And we’ve got to get down…to reality
We can’t let nobody set us down on our feet…y’every day as we go on
We can learn something mo’…you walk down the street and don’t feel cold
Just go on and say…just go on and say …just go on and say to yourself.”

We gotta live together
We gotta live together
We gotta live together
We gotta live together…one more time everybody
We gotta live together
We gotta live together
We gotta live together…yeah, yeah, yea-ah
We gotta live together…yeah
We gotta live together…yeah
Home sweet ho-o-ome… home swee-eet ho-ome
Home sweet ho-ome…… home swee-eet ho-ome 
Home sweet ho-ome
Home sweet ho-o-ome….yea-eah-ah

Should’ve been up in airforce, they’ve been to bomb a night clu-ub [?]
She’s gonna send us all to airport [?]..yea-eah..yeahh’ve 
Home sweet ho-o-ome… home sweet ho-ome 
Home sweet ho-ome
Home sweet ho-ome…listen now
Home sweet ho-ome…yeah, yea-eah
Home sweet ho-ome
Home sweet ho-ome…everybody goin’ on home
Home sweet ho-ome…yeah…home sweet ho-ome, yeah
Home sweet ho-ome…yeah…home sweet ho-ome, yeah
Home sweet ho-ome…yeah…home sweet ho-ome, yeah
Home sweet ho-ome…you gotta live
Home sweet ho-ome…home sweet ho-ome
Ho-o-ome, ho-o-ome, ho-o-ome wa-a-ah!

The old house do-o-og is waggin’ it’s tai-ail
Nobody lo-oves him…he’s sent off to jail
He’s lookin’ for a

Home sweet ho-o-ome…home sweet ho-ome
Home sweet ho-ome……home sweet ho-ome
Home sweet ho-ome……yeah, yeah, yeah
Home sweet ho-ome……yeah, yeah no-ow
Home sweet ho-ome……every no-ow
Home sweet ho-ome……ooh (Gotta be love beside y’all)
Home sweet ho-ome……(Yeah-ah, gotta have love inside y’all)
Home sweet ho-ome……wee doo-doo-doo, wee doo-doo-doo-doo-ooh
Home sweet ho-ome……doo-doo-dee-doody, doo-doo-doo
Home sweet ho-ome……wee-doo, wee-doo, wee-doo
Home sweet ho-ome……doo-doo-doo-doo-doo it’s all ri-i-ight
Home sweet ho-ome……go on (Wee doo-doo-doo-doo) yea-ea-eah
Ho-o-ome…ho-o-ome….ho-o-ome…ho-o-ome…ho-o-ome
Ho-o-ome…ho-o-ome….ho-o-ome…ho-o-ome…ho-o-ome
Soldiers goin’ ho-ome, yea-ea-eah
Sou-oul, sou-oul, yea-ea-eah, woa yeah-ah, yeah-ah
Yea-ea-eah sou-oul, yea-ea-ah, yea-ah, yea-ah
Ho-ome yea-ee-ee-ah

Let’s don’t forget now…I hope you haven’t forgotten 
We’ve been groovin’ for about fifteen or twenty minutes
And we hope that , when you walk out the door, you say to yourself
As you’re walkin’ down the street…don’t forget now.”

Sex
We gotta live together…oh just say it
We gotta live together…I wanna hear it loud now
We gotta live together…everybody-y
We gotta live together…raise your ha-ands now
We gotta live together…raise your ha-ands now
We gotta live together…every da-ay now
We gotta live together…oo-ooh
(We gotta live together)…yea-ah
(We gotta live together)
(We gotta li-ive together ha-ha-ha)
(We gotta-ha-ha dump) together

9. WILD THING  (John ‘Chip Taylor’ Voight)

Wild Thing, you make my heart sing
You make, oh, everything groovy 
Yeah, yeah, yea-eah
Wild Thing

Wild Thing, I think you move me
But I wanna know for sure, y’all
Come here now, sock it to me 
Just a little bit, then disappear
Ooh! You move me
Yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Wild Thing, you make my heart sing
You make oh everything groovy 
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Wild Thing 

Jimi: Thank you, thank you and goodnight

10. HEY JOE  (William ‘Billy’ Roberts)

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

(Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah…
I’m goin’ down to shoot my ol’ lady
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round with another man
I’m going down to shoot my ol’ lady
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round with another man
And that ain’t too cool

(Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah…
Hey-ey Joe, I heard you shot your woman down
[Quotes the Beatles’ I FEEL FINE (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)]
Hey-ey Joe, hey Joe, yes, I heard you shot your woman down
Down to the ground, all the way

Yes I did, yes I did, yes I did 
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round, messin’ ‘round town
Yeah
Yes I did, yes I did, baby
You know I caught her messin’ ‘round town
And I gave her the gun, I shot her

[Solo]

Hey  

Hey Joe, hey Joe, where you gonna run to now
[Quotes the Beatles’ I FEEL FINE (John Lennon & Paul McCartney)]
 (Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah…
Hey Joe, hey Joe, where you gonna run to now
[quotes another Beatles song?]

(Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah…
I’m goin’ way down south, way down south
Way down to Mexico way
I’m going way down south, way 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 
… believe it, baby

Hey, hey-hey-ey Joe, better run on down 
You better 
Goodbye everybody
I think I hear the man comin’…

11. PURPLE HAZE

Purple Haze all in my brain ha-ha
Lately things just don’t seem the same
I’m actin’ funny, but I don’t know why
‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky-uh

… up or down
You’ve got me blowin’, blowin’ my mind
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time

Help me baby, help me baby
Hey!

[solo]

Hey
Purple heroin all in my eyes
Don’t know if it’s-uh day or night, baby
You’ve got me blowin’, blowin’ my mind
Is it tomorrow or just the end of ti-ime

Help me baby
Yea-eah

Yea-eah, purple haze

Yea-eah, purple haze

Yea-eah, purple haze

Aud: More! more!...[etc]. 

[PA starts playing: ‘HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN’]