Saturday 16 May 1970 
Philadelphia, Temple University Stadium, Pennsylvania, USA. JHE [II]

[Aud = Audience]

Jimi : [Tape starts after he’s started] …biggest, huh, crack America’s got is the thing that 
cracked the ‘Liberty Bell’, that simple [strums guitar] That’s fair, when we have to do a 
thing called ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely One, two… [plays a heavy 
riff]…

1. SERGEANT PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (John Lennon & Paul McCartney]

Hey, it was twenty years ago today
Sergeant Pepper told the band to play
They’ve been going in and out of style
But they’re guaranteed to bring a smile

So may I introduce close to you
One and only Billy Shears
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Cub Band 

[Outro solo]

2. JOHNNY B. GOODE (Charles ‘Chuck’ Berry) 	 

Well, down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens 
Livin’ in a cottage made of earth and wood
Lived a country boy, named Johnny B. Goode 
He never, ever learned to read and write so well
But he could play that guitar just like ringin’ a bell

Go, go
Go, Johnny go
Go, go Johnny go
Go, Johnny go
Go
Go, Johnny go
Go
Johnny B. Goode

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Go, sit beneath the trees by the railroad track
Strummin’ with the music that the drivers made
Strummin’ with the pills that the driver play
People messin’ round they would stop and say
“Oh, my, but that little country boy can play.”

Go, go
Go, Johnny go, go, go
Go, Johnny go, go, go
Go, Johnny wo-o-woah
Go, Johnny go
Go
Oh, Johnny B. Goode 

[Solo]

Mama said, “Someday you will be a man
And you will be the leader of a big rock band ha
All kind of people come from miles around
Hear you play your guitar ‘til The Sun goes down 
Maybe some day your name will be in lights
Sayin’: ‘Johnny B. Goode – Tonight!’” babe

Go, go
Go, Johnny go, go, go
Go-o, go leave go-o
Go-o-o-o-o-o, 
Go, go Johnny go
Go… wooh!
Johnny B. Goode 

[Outro solo]

Aud :[Applause]
[Tape cut]
Aud :[Applause]…yea-eah!
Jimi : … and then we have the American revolution, which is in it’s third and last phase [plays 
a muted hammer on]
Aud :[Respond like an ‘Amen section’] Anyway! [more likely “Right on!” must listen again]
Jimi : Thank God for the-uh, huh, alive people and souls here today [plays a muted hammer 
on] What you take, air? [tuning] We’d like to do a thing in memory to all the cat’s that’s 
spilled a little blood, here an’ there in their lives, and everything. The people did some’n 
naked, what they… did really. Because, like, they’re makin’ it for us, an’ we’re gonna 
make it for somebody else, for our children and so fourth, soon
Aud : RIGHT ON!! [etc.]
Jimi : Dig it, dig it, we’re all together, right on together
Aud : Yea-eah!
Jimi : And there’s a whole lot o’ cats fightin’ wars within themselves, so then we can re-uh-
relate it, like, any kind o’ way, a thing called ‘Machine Gun’ 
Aud : YEAH!/Boo! Yeah!

3. MACHINE GUN *

[Intro solo]

Machine gu-u-un, teari-i-in’ my body all apa-art
Yeah, yeah, hey, yeah
Machine gun, teari-in’ my buddies all apa-art
Tear us apart
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 families apart

[Solo]

Well, I pick up my axe an’ I fight like a farmer
But your bullets still knock me down to the ground
Lord, I pick up my axe and I fight the farmer 
That’s why I’m ready, I’ll turn the whole lot on
But your bullets keep knockin’ me down 

But I know all the time, baby, you’ll be goin’ just the same
Three times the pai-ain, and your own self to blame
Yea-eah, Machine gu-u-u-u-un, yeah-yeah-yeah

[Solo]

Way over yonder stands a woman
Sewin’ clothes so her son can fight your war
Over yonde-er, sewin’ clothes so as her son can fight your war
Yeah, but I’m a lover, I’m her lover, sure
But we don’t make no son to fight the war
Now take your love aim
Well-hey-ey, hey-yeah-hey
Machine gun

My love’s over
Go-ot used to you Billy 
Got used to your pain
We go with out any
But your bullets fly like rain
But can’t call me pai-ain

Yea-ea-eah, machine gun 

[Outro solo/improvisation (with radio coming through the speakers)] 

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

Aud : [Applause]

4. LOVER MAN * [Missing two thirds of song]
….
Here he comes, baby 
Here he co-omes, babe 
Here he comes, baby 
Here he comes, baby 
I wanna love you lo-onger, baby
Yes I wanna love you stronger, baby
I wanna love you longer, babe
Here comes your old man over yonder, babe

[Outro solo]

* [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.” ]

[Tape cut]

5. FOXY LADY [Backing vocal - Billy Cox]

Aud : [Cheers]

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

I see you I’m down on the scene, baby
(Foxy)
You make me wanna get up and scream
(Foxy)
Foxy

I’ve made up my mind
I’m tired of wastin’ all my precious time, 
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh, foxy lady

[Solo]

I’m gonna take her home
I won’t do you no harm, no
You’ve got to be all mine
Ooh, Foxy Lady

Here I come, baby
Coming to do it to you

[Outro solo, applause –  tape cut]

6. RED HOUSE 

There’s a red house over yonder, ba-aby
Lord, that’s where my baby stay-ay
Lord, there’s a red house over yonder, chile
Lord, that’s where my baby sta-ay
Hey, I’ve been-ain’t been home to see my baby 
Lord, in about a ninety nine and one half da-ay*

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

[Solo]

Lord, I’m goin’ way over yonder, baby
Lo-y-o-o-o-ord, way over yonder across the hill

Lord, If my baby don’t love me no more
Lord, I know, good and well that her
Sister will

* Three month jail term

[Tape cut]

7. FREEDOM [mostly missing just an instrumental solo]

…
[Solo]
…

[Tape cut]

8. FIRE  [Only part of the solo and the last verse]

…

[Solo, quotes SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE ([John] ‘Jack’ Bruce, Eric Clapton]
…

Try to give me your money 
You’d better save it babe
Save it for your rainy day
I have only one itchin’ desire
Let me stand next to your… [plays a trill]
One more time
Let me stand, baby
Lord, let me stand, baby
Gonna give it to you, baby

[Outro solo]

Aud : [Applause]
Jimi : [Guitar ‘says’ ‘Suck you’] I was kind o’ waitin’ at the train station, man. Waitin’ in the 
train station ‘cause…[tape cut]… smokin’ an’ my health. I’m Getting My Heart Back 
Together Again. We’ll make it look like that…

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

I’m waitin’ ‘round the train station 
Waitin’ for that train
To take me, baby 
Take me away 
From this lonesome town

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

Tears burnin’ me
Tears burnin’ me in my heart.
Way down inside
Tears burnin’ me in my heart, baby
Tears burnin’ me down in my so-oul

Too bad you don't love me no more, baby
Too bad your people, they made me go-o-o-o
Well I
Hear my train a comin’ 
Hear my train a comin’ 
Hear my train comin’ 

[Solo]

[Tape cut’s out most of solo & next verse]

And if you love me one more time, ba-aby 
Might even… give a piece to you

I hear my train a comin’
Hear my train a comin’
Hear my train a comin’ 
Hear my train a comin’ 

[Solo]
[Tape cut]

10. < MIDNIGHT LIGHTNIN’ [aka KEEP ON GROOVIN’. Beginning cut] >

...
Keep on groovin, keep o-on groovin’
To understa-and bo-oth sides of the sky-y

Got to keep on droolin’, keep o-on greasin’
You’ve got your God and so do I-I-I

Got to keep on lovin’, keep on lovin’ 
…
[Tape cut]
…

11. PURPLE HAZE > [Beginning cut]

Purple haze all in my brain
Well, 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
You’ve got me blowin’, blowin’ my mind
Whatever it is that girl put a spell on me

[Solo]

Hey-ey!
Purple haze all in my eye 
Don’t know if It’s-uh day or night
You’ve got me blowin’, blowin’ my mi-ind-uh
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time? 

Help me baby
Help me baby, h-ey!
Yea-eah purple haze
Yea-eah purple haze, shit

[Outro solo, with dental] >

12. < VOODOO CHILE (Slight Return)

Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And chop it down with the edge of my hand
I pick up all the pieces and make an island, huh
Might even ‘raise a little sand’*
Better look out for me

‘Cause I’m a Voodoo chile, baby
Lord knows, I’m a Voodoo chile

[Solo, quotes some pop song by: Smokey Robinson??]

Didn’t mean to take up all your sweet time
Give it right ba-ack one of these days 
I didn’t mean to take up all your sweet talk
Give it right back one of these days

If I don’t see you no more in this world, I’ll 
I’ll meet you on the next one, and don’t be late, don’t be late
‘Cause I’m a Voodoo chile, baby
Lord knows, I’m a Voodoo child, babe 

[Outro solo]

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

[Tape cut]

MC : …[Ex] perience, give it to ‘em
Aud : [Clapping and cheering dwindles, with a few shouts for more]