Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Wind Cries Mary(Tabs)

Jimi Hendrix Experience

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Tuned half a step up,but you can play it in standard tuning.  
 
INTRO 
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VERSE 1 
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When the jacks are all in their boxes,                                and the clowns have all gone to bed. 
 
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                                  You can hear happiness walking down the street. 
 
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     Footsteps dressed in red,                                                            and the wind whispers, Mary. 
 
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VERSE 2 
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     A broom is drearily sweeping,                                          up the broken pieces of yesterdays life. 
 
 
 
 
 
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                                  Somewhere a queen is weeping, 
 
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      Somewhere a king has no wife,                                          and the wind cries,  Mary.                       
 
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SOLO 
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VERSE 3 
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     The traffic lights they turn all blue tomorrow,              and shine their emptiness down upon my bed. 
 
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                                  A tiny island drifts downstream, 
 
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     cos the life that lived, is dead,                                             and the wind it screams! Mary. 
 
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     And will the wind ever remember                                 the names it has blown in the past? 
 
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                                  And with this crutch, this old age, and this wisdom. 
 
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     It whispers no, this will be the last,                                      and the wind cries Mary. 
 
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I usually end the song something like this but you can improvise as much as you want in most of Hendrix's music.
 Enjoy my hard rocking amigo's. 
 

	        

Written by Jimi Hendrix

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