"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" (Jimi Hendrix) [3:43]

Recorded at Mayfair Studios, New York City, 7 & 20 July 1967.

UK release 19 August 1967; charts 30 August 1967; UK #18.

Jimi Hendrix (guitar and vocal), Noel Redding (bass guitar), and Mitch Mitchell (drums) with unidentified chorus and harpsichord.

Produced by Jimi Hendrix.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience. 1968. Electric Ladyland. London: Track. [613 008/009]

Notes and Quotes

	Section	Meas.	Description	Text
A	"Lamp" theme	8	Guitar (wah wah) with harpsichord	–
A	"Lamp" theme	8	Add cymbols	–
B	Verse	16	Double-tracked solo vocal over backing track	a
C	Refrain	8	add chorus	b
A	"Lamp" theme	8		–
B	Verse	16	As in verse above	c
C	Refrain	8		b
C'	Refrain+	18	Guitar solo over modified refrain; add chorus.	–
A	"Lamp" theme	8	As in themes above, drop chorus.	–
B	Verse	16	As in verses above	d
C	Refrain	8	As in refrains above. Add chorus. Repeat and fade.	e

Text
The morning is dead, and the day is through; it's not what it appears to be, but the bear been true [?] All my loneliness, I have felt today; it's a little more than enough to break a man, throw himself away.	a
I continue to burn the midnight lamp, alone.	b
Now the smiling portrait of you that still hangin' on my frowning wall. 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. In fact, I've gotten earring [?], being on the floor, things are goin' there toward the door.	c
So here I sit and face that same old fireplace. Get ready for the same over-throwing goin' through my mind. And in soon enough, time will tell, about the circus and the wishing well. And someone who will bide herself for me, someone who will come geld [?]	d
And I continue to burn the same old lamp, alone.	e

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