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DescriptionEdit for headphones, December 2021. Source of the edit is song number four on the 1992 remastered album "The Ultimate Experience" special edition HDCD, Polydor 517 235-2. The song was inspired by Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend at the time, Kathy Mary Etchingham. He'd gotten into an argument with her about her cooking (lumpy mashed potato). She got very angry and started throwing pots and pans and finally stormed out to stay at a friend's home for a day or so. When she came back, Jimi had written "The Wind Cries Mary" for her.
At one point the band had 20 minutes to spare in a recording studio, when Jimi showed "The Wind Cries Mary" to the band. They managed to record it in the 20 minute period they had. Later they recorded several more takes of the song, but in the end they decided to go with the original recording.
THE WIND CRIES MARY (Jimi Hendrix)
after all the jacks are in the boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed you can hear happiness staggering on down the street footprints dressed in red and the wind whispers Mary
a broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life somewhere a queen is weeping somewhere a king has no wife and the wind it cries Mary
the traffic lights they turn up blue tomorrow and shine their emptiness down on my bed the tiny island sags downstream 'cause the life that lived is, is dead and the wind screams Mary
will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past and with this crutch its old age and its wisdom it whispers no, this will be the last and the wind cries Mary
DescriptionEdit for headphones, December 2021. Source of the edit is song number four on the 1992 remastered album "The Ultimate Experience" special edition HDCD, Polydor 517 235-2. The song was inspired by Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend at the time, Kathy Mary Etchingham. He'd gotten into an argument with her about her cooking (lumpy mashed potato). She got very angry and started throwing pots and pans and finally stormed out to stay at a friend's home for a day or so. When she came back, Jimi had written "The Wind Cries Mary" for her.
At one point the band had 20 minutes to spare in a recording studio, when Jimi showed "The Wind Cries Mary" to the band. They managed to record it in the 20 minute period they had. Later they recorded several more takes of the song, but in the end they decided to go with the original recording.
THE WIND CRIES MARY (Jimi Hendrix)
after all the jacks are in the boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed you can hear happiness staggering on down the street footprints dressed in red and the wind whispers Mary
a broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life somewhere a queen is weeping somewhere a king has no wife and the wind it cries Mary
the traffic lights they turn up blue tomorrow and shine their emptiness down on my bed the tiny island sags downstream 'cause the life that lived is, is dead and the wind screams Mary
will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past and with this crutch its old age and its wisdom it whispers no, this will be the last and the wind cries Mary
