Friday 08 May 1970 
Norman, University Of Oklahoma Field House, Oklahoma, USA. JHE [II]
At this, the first show Jimi wore a black armband with a large letter ‘K’ on it, obviously  a mourning band for the thirteen students student’s shot at Kent State, only four days previous. Four died and one was permanently paralysed. Six days later two students were shot dead and very many wounded at the predominantly African-American Jackson State University under similar circumstances. It appears from Jimi’s introduction to ‘Message To Love’ that Devon Wilson & Collette Mimram attended (Devon was Jimi’s “woman” and Collette was his clothing designer and one of his “amours”, she was his companion on his visit to Morrocco)

[Aud = Audience]

MC : …Hendrix
Jimi: Like to do a theme all o’ that. Just fuck all the old ones. I hope you have the same 
         feeling ha-ha … Now let’s do it to you, do a thing called ‘Fire’, Billy Cox on bass…. 
        You better rock…. We’ve been turned off [feedback… slow hand clap starts] …

[Wild drum intro]

1. FIRE  [Backing vocal – Billy]

Hey, dig this baby 

You don’t care for me, I don’t-uh care about that  
You’ve got a new fool huh, I like to laugh at
I have only one, itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your fire
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand, baby
(Let me stand next to your fire) Let me stand next to your fire
(Let me stand next to your fire) 

Yeah, come here baby, stop acting so damn crazy
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, itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your… [plays trill] 

Hey girl

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

[Solo]

[Drum solo]

You try to, give me your money 
You better save it babe
Save it for your rainy day
I have only one burnin’ desire
Let me stand next to your fire 
Let me stand
Let me stand
Let me stand baby, right now
Yeah

*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’ & ‘Hound Dog’. 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 for ‘Fire’

Jimi: Yeah, okay then, thank you very much. Then we have this other thing that we’d like 
to do that one for you right now, something you all probably dream about, though if you’re all hip. He goes Spanish Castle sloo-urrp! magic!...

2. SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC

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

Hang on my darlin’
Whole lot o’ fun, baby

You won’t get too all upset
Spanish Castle magic

The clouds are really low 
And they overflow
With cotton-candy 
Sometimes battle grounds 
Red and brown
But it’s all in your mind, baby
Don’t waste your time thinkin’ about all the bad things
Just float your little mind around

Hang on my darlin’
Hang o-on, if you wanna go-o
Whole lot of fu-un
What you got to fear honey, it’s
Spanish Castle magic

[Solo]

Hang on my darlin’
Hang on, if you wanna go
Whole lot of fun sometimes
But don’t get hung up on the bread myself
Spanish Castle ….

Little bit of
Spanish Castle magic

Little bit of
Spanish Castle magi-i-i-ic yeah
Jimi: Yeah, right, Ah, while we’re goin’ on, man, this could be, this whole new world, 
forget about yesterday or tomorrow, we’re gonna get it together right now, in two seconds. But then again we must get rid of all the hogwash, an’ all the waste an’ all the bullshit, like for instance this song, dedicated to the-uh… yeah, one them scenes and-um also dedicated to all the soldiers * fightin’ in Chicago, Berkeley, uh, Kent State, Oklahoma, Oklahome 
Aud: [Cheers & applause]
Jimi: Yeah, we dig, yeah, right, completely, always, right. But, dig, this has enough, 
         check this out an’ get it out of the way, it’s a thing called Machine Gun… 

3. MACHINE GUN1

Machine gu-u-u-un, yeah, teari-in’ my body all apa-art
Hey-ey, hey machine gu-un, tearin’ my body all apart, yeah
Evil man make me kill you
Evil man make you kill me, baby
Evil man make me kill you, baby
Even though we’re only familes apart

Well I pick up my axe and fight like a farmer
But you still shoot me down the same way, on the ground
Yeah, yea-ea-ea-ea-yea-eah, yeah
Pick up my axe and fight like a farmer 
But you still shoot me down to the ground

Same way you shoot me down, baby, you’ll be goin’ just the same
Three times the pai-ain, and your own self to blame
Wah-ey, machine gu-u-un

Over yonder stands a woman 
Sewin’ clothes, so the son can fight in their war
Over yonder stands a woma-an 
She’s speakin’ an’ cryin’, Lord
‘Cause she got a son to fight the war
Yeah, but I’m her lover, baby 
An’ we don’t make no child to fight in your war
Well my piece is said now, baby

Hey, hey-ey, machine gun, now
Let your bullets fly like rai-ain
Because they don’t mean to me
They don’t mean no starvin’ oh yea-eah
Oh yeah

1According to Jimi this addresses at least two subjects, one is war and the other is personal struggle  
 “People fighting wars within’ themselves.”
*Black Panthers (although the Milwaukee chapter was shut down in November 69, the news may not have 
  reached Jimi)/ Stop the War movement

Ant-war movement

Jimi: Right back to the beginning… Oh, somebody gave me the compliments of, what 
         time are your cigars 
Aud: [Cheers, laughter]
Jimi: Thank you very much
Aud: [Cheers, laughter]
Jimi: I’d have heard something, somwhere… [in funny voice]: That’s what I needed, 
think that’s because song. Speaking of machine guns an’ all that, um, tch. Song about a cat, they’re under someone else’s bed, seein’, all of a sudden, their husband, three hundred pounds, comin’ down the street, called, ‘Look Out Baby, ‘Cause Here Comes Your Lover Man. He might just shoot you, man, okay… I will as soon as I can…

4. LOVER MAN *

Here he comes, baby 
Here comes your lover man
Here he comes
Here comes your lover ma-an
I see him out your window
Lord, I better get out o’ here as fast as I can

Reach u-up baby
Hand me down my-y runnin’ shoes*
Reach u-up baby
Hand me down my runnin’ shoes
I see your man down the road now
I just don’t have time to lose

[Solo]

Hey

I got to get out of here so fast

Girl
I wanna love you longer
Yes, I wanna love you stronger 
I wanna love you longer 
But here comes your old man over yonder, baby
Here comes your old man over yonder 

* [Music: BB King’s ‘Rock Me Baby’. Lyrics are a mix of Elmore James’s ‘Look On Yonder Wall’ 
(Bill ‘Jazz’ Gillum) & Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘Meet Me In The Bottom (Willie Dixon), last verse is Jimi’s. Jimi related this song to the Vietnam war veterans returning, as Elmo’s version of ‘Look On Yonder Wall’ did to those of World War 2, the missing verse being: “Your husband went to the war, I know it was tough, I don’t know how many men’s he killed, but I  know he done killed enough.” ]

Jimi    : Yeah, I think we better get into the girl that gave me that-uh… an’ that other 
             thing… better call this one ‘The Foxy Ladies’… an’ I’m sneakin’ ‘round the keyhole 
             of the back door, that’s the kind of views I’m into… 

5. FOXY LADY [Backing vocal – Billy]

Aud: [Mass rhythmic clapping]

You know you’re a cute little heart breaker 
(Foxy) Yeah
And you know you’re a cute little love maker
(Foxy)
I wanna take you home 
I won’t do you no harm
You got to be all mine
Ooh, Foxy Lady

I see you, I’m back on the scene, baby
(Foxy)
You make me wanna get up and scream
(Foxy)
I’ve made up my mi-ind
I’m tired of wastin’ all my precious time, 
You’ve got to be all mi-ine, all mine
Ooh, Foxy Lady

[Solo]

[Tape drops out]

Jimi: Yeah, right, yeah… I’d like to do another thing, gonna slow down a little, tell ‘em 
about these, one of these kind of changes, you know, when your old lady puts you down, an’ didn’t like the sounds and everybody said… [very blurred sound here] …guess where that train station was, Mitch Michell…

6. GETTING MY HEART BACK TOGETHER > [aka HEAR MY TRAIN A COMIN’]

Well I hear my train a comin’
Hear my train a comi-i-i-i-in

I’m waitin’ ‘round the train station 
Waitin’ for that train
To take me 
Take me awa-ay 
From this lonesome town

It’s to bad you don’t love me no more, baby
To bad your people put me dow-ow-own
Put me down 

Tears burnin’ me
Tears burnin’ me in my heart.
Way down in my heart
Way down in my soul
Tears burnin’ me down in my so-oul

Too bad you don't love me no more baby
Too bad I had to go
You made me go
So, I got to go

Well I
Hear my train a comin’ 
Hear my train a comin’ 
Hear my train comi-in’ 
I hear my train a comin’

[Solo]
I got to leave this town
I got to leave this tow-ow-own
Go back on the ro-o-oad, become a Voodoo chile
Big empty road, yeah
Yeah
Come back an’ buy this town
Come back an’ buy this town
Put it all in my shoe
Make love to me one more time, baby 
I might even give a love to you
I’ve got a piece, if you do right

Hear my train a comin’ 
Hear my train a comin’ 
Hear my train a comi-in’ 
Hear my train comin’

Hear my train a comi-i-i-in’ 

Jimi: Thank you very much… Thank you very much, yeah… Continue on with a thing 
         called ‘Message To Love’. Dedicated to Collette and Devon…

7. MESSAGE TO LOVE 

I said we’re travellin’ at speed of a reborn man
Got a lot o’ love to give-uh, from the mirrors of my hand
Message of love, baby, don’t you run away
Look at your heart baby, face the truth today

Well I am what I am thank Go-od
Some people just don’t understand

Find yourself first and then your tool
Find yourself first, don’t you be no fool

Here comes a woman, baby, wrapped up in chains
Messin’ with that fool, baby, keeps your heart in pain         
If you wanna be free come along with me  
Forget about that pig, he’ll never understand 
I said find your self first and then your talent        
Work hard in your mind for it to come alive         
Then prove to the ma-an that you’re strong as him
‘Cause in the eyes of God we’re all children to him

Everybody calm down 
Sit down

There’s no time to….?

Everybody come alive 
Everybody love their life   
Everybody live their life
Everybody hear my message

8. RED HOUSE 

There’s a red house over yonder, ba-aby
Lord, that’s where my baby stay-yeah
Lord, there’s a red house over yonder, baby 
Lord, that’s where my baby stay-y, yeah that’s all right
I ain’t been home to see my ol’ nappy headed1 baby 
In about a ninety nine and one half day*
Just got out o’ jail, you know what I mean

Wait a minute somethin’s wro-o-ong 
Lord, Lord the key won’t unlock this doo-oor
Wait a minute somethin’s wro-o-ong
Lord, have mercy, Lord, have mercy 
The key won’t unlock this door 
Lord, I got a bad feelin’
That, my baby don’t live here no mo-ore
That’s all right, I still got my guitar, yeah 

[Solo]

I think I’d better go to back home, right now, honey
Way back over yonder ‘cross the hill
Lord, I might as well go back over yonder
Way-ay-yay! over yonder across the hill

If my baby don’t love me no more
Lord, I know, good an’ well, her little, pretty sister will

* Three month jail term
1 ‘Nappy’ hair – usually taken as being a racist, denigrating description, this is an analogy between some   
   sub-Saharan Africans hair and the short fuzzy ends of fibers on the surface of cloth called ‘naps’ 

Jimi: Thank you [Tape fast forward]… and then-uh, I should sing it, but, oh, fuck me, if I 
say anything. In school when they used to have us sing it a lot prettier an’ all that an’ there wasn’t really a person an’ [tuning]  What’s that? Let’s not play somethin’ else. An’ like-um, I’d like to dedicate this to all the ones that died for needless causes, all the one’s they blew up, all the ones that’s been findin’ it’s real, it might be the same song, but let’s play it back, because the way it really is today, just hearin’ it sounds the way we used to do it high, natural…

9. THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER > (music: ‘The Anacreontic Song’ by John Stafford Smith)

[Instrumental]

America today, big deal
….

10. > PURPLE HAZE 

Aud: [Mass rhythmic clapping]

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

Purple haze all around
Don’t know if I’m comin’ up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is that pig’s put a spell on me
Help me baby, help baby

[Solo]

Thank you for waitin’, thank you

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 tomorrow or just the end of time? 

Help me baby, help baby
Yea-eah 
Yea-eah purple haze
Goodbye

Jimi: One, two. Thank you very much, man. Thank you very much. Thanks for for waitin’ 
         an’ thanks for helpin’ me out in time, good time. We got Billy Cox on bass, Billy 
         Cox on bass, Billy Cox on bass. 
Aud: More! More! More!... [etc.]
Jimi: Now I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do, but we don’t want to play harder anymore okay, 
         fuck… a thing called Voodoo Chile…

11. VOODOO CHILE (Slight Return) 

Aud: [Mass rhythmic clapping]

Well, I stand up next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
I just hit a mountain 
Chopped it down with the edge of my hand
Pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even ‘raise a little sand’*

Hooray, baby
‘Cause I’m a Voodoo chile
Lord knows you’re a Voodoo child, baby

[Solo]

[Tape cuts out]

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