The Wind Cries Mary

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The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix

About The Wind Cries Mary

"The Wind Cries Mary" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and issued by the Jimi Hendrix Experience as the band's third single on May 5, 1967. It reached no. 6 in the UK Charts. The track is an example of psychedelic blues-rock, as the song is in the key of F major, with a guitar solo primarily involving the F major pentatonic scale. Today, it is #379 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. It has been covered by musicians such as Jamie Cullum .

The Wind Cries Mary Lyrics

[00:13.17] After all the jacks are in their boxes
[00:18.61] And the clowns have all gone to bed
[00:24.73] You can hear happiness
[00:27.82] Staggering on down the street
[00:30.04] Footprints dressed in red
[00:36.32] And the wind whispers
[00:40.84] "Mary"
[00:46.99] A broom is drearily sweeping
[00:51.40] Up the broken pieces
[00:54.68] Of yesterday's life
[00:58.58] Somewhere, a queen is weeping
[01:04.95] Somewhere
[01:06.25] A king has no wife
[01:10.29] And the wind, it cries
[01:14.14] "Mary"
[01:16.42] (Instrumental)
[01:52.50] The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow
[01:57.56] And shine their emptiness down on my bed
[02:02.72] The tiny island sags downstream
[02:08.52] 'Cause the life that lived is dead
[02:14.35] And the wind screams
[02:19.68] "Mary"
[02:25.35] Will the wind ever remember
[02:30.89] The names it has blown in the past?
[02:37.24] And with this crutch
[02:39.84] Its old age and its wisdom
[02:40.99] It whispers, "No, this will be the last"
[02:48.59] And the wind cries
[02:52.85] "Mary"
[02:56.54]

From the album: Are You Experienced