Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Wing

"Little Wing" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix. It was first recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1967 album Axis: Bold as Love. It is ranked #357 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Inspiration

Jimi spoke to a Swedish journalist about the song in January 1968, saying "Well, that was one song on there we did a lot of sound on, you know. We put the guitar through the Leslie speaker of an organ, and it sounds like jelly bread, you know....It's based on a very, very simple American Indian style, you know, very simple. I got the idea like, when we was in Monterey, and I just happened to...just looking at everything around. So I figured that I take everything I see around and put it maybe in the form of a girl maybe, something like that, you know, and call it 'Little Wing', in other words, just fly away. Everybody really flying and they's really in a nice mood, like the police and everybody was really great out there. So I just took all these things an put them in one very, very small little matchbox, you know, into a girl and then do it. It was very simple, you know. That's one of the very few ones I like."[1][2]

When asked by a London reporter in 1967 what his favorite track off the Axis: Bold as Love album was, Hendrix listed 'Little Wing' and 'You Got Me Floating' as his favorites.[1]

Author Rotimi Ogunjobi claims that "'Little Wing' is the name of Hendrix's guardian angel (like 'Waterfall', that is mentioned in the song May this Be Love on the debut album)."

Lyrics:
Well she's walking through the clouds
With a circus mind that's running round
Butterflies and zebras
And moonbeams and fairy tales
That's all she ever thinks about
Riding with the wind.

When I'm sad, she comes to me
With a thousand smiles, she gives to me free
It's alright she says it's alright
Take anything you want from me,
Anything.

Fly on little wing,
Yeah yeah, yeah, little wing

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jimi
• hendrix
• little
• wing
• axis:
• bold
• as
• love
• 1967

[XXXMethadrinexXXX]

Fell in love the first time i heard this song.

[ThaBlackRadical]

No1 can play better than jimi james hendrix

[southernbred211]

@TheShannMann fuck you guy.

[GALACTICOSable]

chingona esa rolita  se rifo el puto con esa

[CarlTYLERkills]

Love this song

[PjCarrigan1]

It deffently hard to pick a favorit Hendrix song cause they all rule

[MrChimichangaLove]

One of thr best