Jimi Hendrix
Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
Electric Ladyland (1968)

      C                  F                B♭                C
D ------3-2----------------3-2------2-------3-2-----------0-2--2-3-2-0-2--
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    wah & clavecin

F                    f e♭
The morning is dead
Dm                  d c
And the day is too
B      
There's nothing left here to greet me
E                    d
But the velvet moon

C   
All my loneliness
G
I have felt today
D                         
It's a little more than enough
F                                 F♯
To make a man throw himself away

  G              F F♯ G
  And I continue                                                w/ "mandoline"
                       F F♯ G         F F♯ G (reste)
  To burn the midnight lamp    alone

C  F  B♭  C  (intro)

Now the smiling portrait of you
Is still hanging on my frowning wall
It really doesn't bother me
Too much at all

It's just the ever falling dust
That makes it so hard for me to see
That forgotten earring laying on the floor
Facing coldly towards the door

  Refrain - burn

B♭  c G  x 2  F  a G  F  Em  G  loneliness is such a, a drag

C  F  B♭  C  (intro)

So here I sit to face
That same old fireplace 
Getting ready for the same old explosion
Going through my mind

And soon enough time will tell
About the circus and the wishing well
And someone who will buy and sell for me
Someone who will toll my bell

  Refrain  x 3  (2e x ad lib)

...fade out