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Song
All Along the Watchtower
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Song meaning of All Along The Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix
In 1968, Hendrix started modifying "All Along the Watchtower" at Electric Lady Studios in New York.
The song had just been released on Dylan's John Wesley Harding. Hendrix built a turbulent four-part solo using the lyric "And the wind began to howl" as a jumping-off point, turning Dylan's succinct foreboding into an electric hurricane.
Dylan recognised Hendrix's genius: Dylan's later renditions of "All Along the Watchtower," such as the one he performed with the Band during their reunion tour in 1974 and on the live album Before the Flood, imitated Hendrix's cover.
All Along The Watchtower lyrics by Jimi Hendrix
"There must be some kind of way out of here"
Said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None will level on the line
Nobody offered his word
Hey!"
"No reason to get excited"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us stop talking falsely now
The hour's getting late
Hey!"
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too
Outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl, hey
All along the watchtower
All along the watchtower
Release Date
1968
Songwriter/s
Bob Dylan
Producer/s
Jimi Hendrix
Label/s
Reprise (US), Track (UK)