| "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan) [4:00] |
| Recorded at (a) Olympic Sound Studios, London 21 January 1968 and (b) The Record Plant, New York City, June-August 1968. |
| UK release as Track 604 025 on 18 October 1968 with "Long Hot Summer Night";
UK chart 23 October 1968; UK #5. US release on Reprise on 21 September 1968. |
| Produced by Chas Chandler with Eddie Kramer and Andy Jones (Olympic engineers) and Tony Bongiovi (Record Plant). |
| Jimi Hendrix (vocal, electric guitars, and bass guitar), Dave Mason (acoustic guitar), and Mitch Mitchell (drums). |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience. 1968. Electric Ladyland. London: Track. [613 008/009] |
| Notes and Quotes |
| Section | Meas. | Description | Text |
| Introduction | Guitars over bass and drums | – | |
| Verse | Solo vocal over backing track. | a | |
| Verse | As above. | b | |
| Verse | Guitar solo | – | |
| Verse | As in verses above. | c | |
| Verse | " | d | |
| Verse | Guitar solo | – | |
| Verse | Guitar solo (with slides and echo) | – | |
| Verse | Guitar solo (with wah wah) | – | |
| Verse | Guitar solo on chords | – | |
| Verse | As in verses above. | e | |
| Verse | " | f | |
| Verse | Guitar solos (repeat and fade) | – |
| Text | |
| There
must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the thief. There's too much confusion; I can't get no relief. |
a |
| Businessmen,
they drink my wine; plowman, dig my earth. None will ever own the mine; nobody of it is worth. |
b |
| "No reason
to get excited," the thief he kindly spoke. There are many here among us, who feel that life is but a joke. |
c |
| Well
you and I we been though that, and this is not our fate. So let us not talk falsely now, the hour's getting late. |
d |
| Well,
all along the watchtower, princess kept the view. While other women came and went, barefoot servants too. |
e |
| Outside
in the cold distance, a wildcat did prowl. Two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl. |
f |
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