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These handwritten lyrics were written by Hendrix and are part of a song titled “May I Whisper In Your Ear”, or “Can I Whisper In Your Ear” that Hendrix was going to release on an album that he was going to call “Strate Ahead” [sic] or probably “Straight Ahead”. The song was later released after Jimi’s death. This page is one full verse out of seven verses that make up the entire song.
The lyrics are written in red ballpoint pen on a 6”x 8.25” sheet of Cumberland Hotel London stationary (Hendrix’ favorite hotel in London), and are in excellent condition, with one small barely discernable wrinkle. There is a handwritten phone number on the reverse of the page.
This page was published in 1993's "Jimi Hendrix - The Lost Writings - Cherokee Mist" compiled by Bill Nitopi.
These lyrics came from a friend of Hendrix’ and were originally sold at Sotheby’s in the early 1990’s. They held two different auctions with Hendrix lyrics in them during that time period, and the bulk of the Hendrix lyrics that have made it to market came from these two auctions.
A unique and highly collectible piece of Rock’n’Roll history from one of Rock’s greatest artists.
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>>>> The Cumberland Hotel marked the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death on September 18, 2010 with a new Hendrix-inspired hotel suite. This London hotel, located at Great Cumberland Place near Hyde Park, was the last known address for Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix stayed at the Cumberland Hotel near Hyde Park often during the 1960s and did his last interview ever with music journalist Keith Altham in one of the hotel's fifth-floor suites just days before his untimely death in 1970.
The suite is decorated to give the visitor a virtual 'Hendrix Experience'. Adorning the walls are a psychedelic painted mural, a 'Flying V' guitar much like Hendrix's and framed articles and covers of the New Musical Express.
The full lyrics to the song are:
May I Whisper In Your Ear Lyrics
May I whisper in your ear
From my heart so you’ll clearly hear...
There are people so dear...
They’re like children...
Naked in a cold world...
Beautiful children
In an old world...
May I take you away
From the evils of today
To the dreams of tomorrow.
You know that heaven...
Has no sorrow.
You know that heaven...
Has no tomorrow.
Hear the sound of the magic drums...
Hearts are beating for the sun...
Sending evil on the run...
Now watch the wind...
Look over yonder...
Here comes some news...
Coming down like lightning...
Straight for me and you.
People of destruction
Your time is out of date...
People who’s living crooked,
Better start getting straight.
I’ve been through some changes,
A whole lot of re-arranges...
Been through some ups and downs,
And whole lot of turn arounds.
I been on the shelf and even killed myself...
1,000 times ago and maybe 1,000
Times more.
She said she comes from ice land...
I told her I was from the west.
She took me to the snow capped mountains...
And then she put me through the test...
We walked across the glacier,
The horses stayed behind...
And as we laid between the
Frozen vallies we kissed
For the very first time.
And now we’re stuck together.
It was too long ago.
But it seems like...years ago...
Since I felt the warm hello of the sun.
Lately things seem a little colder...
The wind, it seems to get a little bolder.
Forget of my name
Remember it only as a hand shake,
Introduction to my belief which is god.
Ride instead the waves of my interpreture,
Music, sound
Hynotic if you choose
But truth and life
Regardless of your questionable timid compromises
Which I intend to erase.
Which I will erase without hint of reward
As I am only a messenger
And you a sheep in process of evolution
Almost at death with yourself
And on the staircase of birth.
Soon you may almost forget the smell of your family...
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