My Friend (crd) — Jimi Hendrix

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MY FRIEND-JIMI HENDRIX

Chords-intro(G7 D7 G7 C G7 D7), (G C F F# G)2X, B Em Em/D C

G Bb/F C/E C#dim Edim Gdim A#dim, G B/F# Em Em/D C F G

Spoken during intro-"You all pass me that bottle. I`ll sing

you a real song."

Well I`m looking through Harlem, my stomach squeals just a little more.

G C/E F F# G

The stagecoach full of feathers and footprints rolls up to my soapbox door.

B/F# Em Em/D C

Now a lady with a pearl handled necktie tied to the driver`s fence

G Bb/F C/E C#dim Edim Gdim A#dim*

breathes in my face bourbon and coke possessed words,

G B/F# Em Em/D C F G

"Haven`t I seen you somewhere in hell, or was it just an accident?"

(play first two measures of intro and say)

"You know how I felt then"

Before I could ask if it was the east or the west side

my feet they howled in pain. The wheels of a bandwagon

cut very deep but not as deep in my mind as the rain and

as they pulled away I could see her words staggering falling

on my muddy tent. Well I picked them up and brushed them off

to see what they said - you wouldn`t believe it. "Come around

to my room with the tooth in the middle and bring along a

bottle and a president."

Chorus

B/F# Em Em/D C

And sometimes it`s not so easy `specially when your only friend

G B/F# Em Em/D C F G

talks, sees, looks and feels like you. You do just the same as him.

(play intro and say)

"It gets very lonely out here in this room baby"

Well I`m riding through L.A. on a bicycle built for fools.

And I see one of my old buddies and he says "You don`t

look the way you used to do." And I say "Some people look

like a coin box." He says, "You look like you don`t have

any coins to spare And I lay back and thought to myself

And I said this as I picked up my pride from beneath the

pay phone and combed his breath right out of my hair.

>Chorus

I just got out of a Scandinavian jail and I`m on my

way straight back to you but I feel so dizzy I take

a quick look in the mirror to make sure my friends here

with me. And you know good well I don`t drink coffee

so you fill my cup with sand and the frozen TV`s on the

barroom sharing it`s sticks around the broken edge and

my coat that you let your dog by the fire on. And your

cat he attacks me from his pill box ledge and I thought

you were my friend too man my shadow comes around before

you.

>Chorus

Intro:

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-6/7~--65~---------------3/4---3--3/4--5-

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* Diminished riff:

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-2-------5------8-----11----

-3-------6------9-----12----

-2-------5------8-----11----

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