Jimi Hendrix - House Burning Down Lyrics






Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey

Look at the sky turn a hell fire red
Somebody's house is burnin' down down, down down
Down, down, down.

Well I asked my friend where is that black smoke comin' from ?
He just coughed and changed the subject and
said oh wa I think it might snow some
So I left him sippin' his tea an' I jumped in my chariot
And rode off to see just why and who could it be this time.

Sisters and brothers daddys mothers standin' 'round cryin'
When I reached the scene the flames were makin' a ghostly whine
So I stood on my horse's back an' I screamed without a crack
I say oh baby why'd you burn your brother's house down ?

Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! Hey !

Look out the sky turn a hell fire red Lord
Somebody's house is burnin' down down, down down
Look out the sky turn a hell fire red Lord
Somebody's house is burnin' down down, down down down.

Well someone stepped from the crowd he was nineteen miles high
He shouts retired and disgusted so we paint red through the sky
I said the truth is straight ahead so don't burn yourself instead
Try to learn instead of burn, hear what I say, yeah, yeah.

So I fin'ly rode away but I'll never forget that day
'Cause when I reached the valley I looked way down cross the way
A giant boat from space landed with eerie grace
And came and taken all the dead away.

Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! Hey !

What'd I say.
Look at the sky turn a hell fire red Lord
Somebody's house is burning down down, down down
Look at the sky turn a hell fire red Lord
Somebody's house is burning down down, down down
Look at the sky, look at the sky.

Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Oh baby





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  1. E.... L....

    Only Revolver before this.

  2. R.... m....

    Wish you were you here. To talk some sense into these cats. 2020

  3. M.... G....

    esto es porno y del bueno

  4. T.... L....

    Tribute? Damn Jimi if I knowd you was still in this world I sure as hell would not despair so much as I do.
    I only wish.
    Wach out for Janie "Tribute "
    Is sure love to see Trashman the 7:14 version as a " Tribute "and plenty more from the most phenomenal human being who ever existed .
    We lost Jimi.
    Jim
    Janice .
    And we got TRUMP?!
    WHAT A FUCKED UP WORLD! !!!!
    JIMI, ill meet ya on the next one, and this time i wont be late. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, ALL WE NEED IS LOVE .
    THE POWER OF LOVE /SOUL .

  5. D.... C....

    A painfully relevant song.

  6. M.... S....

    Jimi also played bass on this song.

  7. b.... c....

    Hendrix is the only man who intimidated jazzmen...

  8. M.... J....

    "turn instead of burn, here what I say."

  9. p.... b....

    He was probably the first one to 'shred" a guitar. This really blew you away back then in '68.

    p.... b....

    This also had something to do about the Racial riots that went on in summer of '68.

  10. k.... ....

    The 68 riots, great song,HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMI!!!!!!!

  11. J.... C....

    So many fires.is it the global warming,is it some exstremist in your community

  12. G.... 5....

    Man, the drummer knows how to go insane when Jimi is going at it

  13. Z.... 0....

    Greatest electric guitar intro of ALL TIME.....????

  14. S.... S....

    I've psyched out to this track ever since it came out. I first bought an EP of Jimi just after he passed on and totally blew my brain cells to bits during the 70s and here I am in 2019 Sunday morning with this full blast and tingles down my spine. Jimi lives on thru us all. Happy Sunday Jimi, you're STILL the main man !! \m/ MUSIC IS LIFE !!

  15. J.... A....

    I saw him play a couple of times back in the 60s. Mr. Incredible. I played guitar and after I saw him I realized I knew nothing about my guitar. What a performer! He would blow your mind and hand it to you on a platter and smile. The guitar cord came out of his belly button and his hands were molded onto the neck. Nobody else every came close to his wavelength.

  16. z.... ....

    How about you spell "house" correct first?

  17. B.... P....

    So FUCK dificult to find the electric ladyland tracks on the YouTube...what hell why????

  18. P.... S....

    Gone...but not forgotten 💜

  19. A.... F....

    Cactus
    Steve Miller
    Grateful Dead
    Jimi Hendrix
    Temple Stadium, May 1970

  20. J.... A....

    Without a shadow of a doubt the best guitar intro ever recorded. In my opinion.

  21. m.... d....

    This sounds so Goddamn groovy and hardcore rock and roll 🎸 HAIL TO THE LEFT HANDED KING

  22. A.... K....

    If jimi was here do you think he’d dig it

  23. A.... K....

    My brother is dead now I’m going to help you big brother

  24. A.... K....

    I have been listening too. I’m sick of not being able to hear the jimi songs I love he has so many tunes that people cant hear because his sister took a deal

  25. J.... A....

    I agree, this is one of Jimi's best. Are You Experienced and Still Rainin', Still Dreamin' are fine, too. Best guitar player I ever saw and I've seen a lot of 'em in the last 50 years or so.

  26. V.... R....

    Somebody's house is burning down!
    ☆☆☆☆☆
    I always liked the Electric Ladyland double album the best!

  27. M.... ....

    Right on.

  28. J.... d....

    Thanks for the upload. far too much shit going around pretending to be Jimi.

  29. O.... F....

    What a rock song

  30. X.... Y....

    Great song

  31. M.... C....

    Little Elk Creek Canyon.., 1969 a major turning point in my life. This song did something to me... 'try to learn instead of burn.. hear what I say...' I have met Jimi 2 times; once in a vision on at the mid point of a bridge above a deep canyon and 1 time in a dream - we were on a big ship in the ocean, he was being chased by a 'dark' man that he was afraid of. I am now about to be 67 and this song has never left me - simply one of his best, along with Voodoo Child and All along the watchtower.

  32. J.... A....

    One day i will come see ypur resting place thank you for your music

  33. p.... ....

    fucking love this tuner

  34. E.... 7....

    Some people are confused about this line. Listen again. A Dahlia boat from space landed with eerie gray and come and taketh all the dead away.

  35. u.... ....

    This entire album is a sound painting! I Loved this album and this song in particular when I first heard it as a 14 yo and many, many yrs later that hasn't changed.

  36. N.... T....

    "Sisters and brothers, daddys mothers" (bamp!!!) ....love that note!!!! Marshall, Strat, Open E , Hendrix

  37. D.... D....

    Best intro ever

  38. r.... r....

    jimi the house is finaly burning at notre dam*

  39. m.... h....

    found Jimi in Nam. With him ever since.

  40. P.... ....

    the purp got out on jimi's harley

  41. s.... h....

    AVE,RIP, BEAUTIFUL, HOW YS THE PARALELL, NOWADAYS.................

  42. M.... ....

    Wonderful

  43. A.... C....

    I was kind of late getting into Jimi Hendrix.

    I was college aged, so about 18 or 19.

    (smh)

    A.... C....

    In '72 this was the last album I bought of his out of sequence.heard voodoo child off of ' Live in the west' months earlier.and this double album was the mysterious magical album I had heard about.once I acquired it I was jimied out for a while.you tube has been my most recent revival....thnx.

  44. L.... B....

    in heaven now-awesome

  45. J.... T....

    saw him right before his end, ventura fairgrounds,ca.

  46. T.... H....

    The Watts Riots burning your house down 1969

  47. J.... W....

    This was 50 years ago? Has the world's gone backwards or what?

  48. O.... M....

    mierda Bullshit

  49. D.... T....

    I love this too, changed my life too! My 2nd band was called Purple Haze, I was 14! But this tune, this was the TONE! Been living the dream ever since! :-) Thank you Jimi, wherever you are!

  50. s.... s....

    this tune has in my head since i was 18 ...im 64 Its double pluss good!

  51. G.... C....

    Mitch Mitchell, god bless you. The heavens keep much better rhythm since your passing. Sisters and bothers, daddys, mothers standing 'round cryin' that day...

    A giant boat from space landed with eerie grace
    And came and taken all the dead away.

  52. D.... S....

    Why is No One allowed to post Rainy Day / and or it's rainin, Dream away from the Electric Lady Land album.

  53. D.... D....

    Bless you Jimi 🙏

  54. M.... C....

    It is 49 years since I first bought this album - this song never left my memory! wow! He was a genius that is all there is to it... not one like him since... a lot of copies but not the original!... If I don't see you no more in this world - I'll meet ya in the next one... and don't be late - DON'T BE LATE...

  55. c.... h....

    Somebody's state is burning down.

  56. D.... G....

    Why the fuck isn't this atleast at 10 million views

  57. r.... s....

    Watching you
    watcthing me
    ?

  58. a.... n....

    great job dokken841!! it was hard finding REAL JIMI material

  59. x.... ....

    Way did you bur yo bros house dddown cus I Did

  60. A.... R....

    This song's a tango

  61. G.... L....

    JIMI'S ALSO PLAYING BASS ON THIS ONE. RIGHTEOUSLY FUNKY!

  62. d.... r....

    A giant boat from space landed with eerie grace
    And came and taken all the dead away.

  63. T.... ....

    One of the best songs ever

  64. t.... l....

    Can you do Tribbett tributes of Isle of Wight please

  65. F.... P....

    El mejor guitarrista y mi idolo

  66. S.... ....

    Man, I had forgotten all about this song, Damn Jimi was good , those raps guys sure could learn from him,

  67. s.... h....

    AVE.........( They REALly nEVERRRRRRR understand???????????????? )

  68. E.... C....

    While you're at it , make a tribute with Gypsy Eyes.

  69. C.... C....

    Don't take any notice of idiots comparing bands, that's not fair and causes wars. We all know Jimi was fantastic at what he could do, and I love this track.

  70. s.... h....

    IF YOU PROMISE SOMETING, THERE YS KNOW ATHER HIGH WAY THAN 2 DO SO.....and NYHOERSAG/RESHAH/FOETJOE/MANDINKA ETC ETC, AUGUSTO, THE NEW ONE, LIMBURGIAN JERRROEN, THE OLD........and WHEN I PLAY YT YS SURELY CANIBALISM..................AVE, 2011, JERUSALEM=EZEKIEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  71. J.... W....

    The best lead guitarist that ever lived SAS the very best of the best and we all know all lead guitarist are brilliant bring excitement and wonder to a band during lead breaks its not easy for takes a hell of a lot of learning but jimi hendrix your the best guitarist and sas of all lead guitarists and always will be i wish i could have known you a loveley shy well mannered gentleman too as all the world knows the the quietist jimi are always the best love you and miss you your phenonamal jimi my word how did you do all that and noel mitch mitchel billy cox buddy miles randy hasen and his band do you a brilliant justice lads and we love you all fellow musicians all around the globe love you lads chris burner what a sad day when jimi the best lead guitarist in the world left us all SAS OF ALLEAD GUITARISTS NO QUESTION very sadly missed and loved well mannered very shy man too from what ive gathered a loveley man with a fender that talked and had a living personality of its own it talked ill never forget him i know they say its the man and not the guitar but we all know fenders are fantastic guitars and jimi the SAS but i could swear that guitar were a alive they loved eachother made for each other that guitar came alive it was a part of him god rest his soul incredible know can touch him to this day but randy hansen and your band god bless you k
    Lads jimis in your veins randy god bless you too and you you dare die on us and thanks for keeping the dream alive your note for not lads no one could do any better we all know how impossible situation it his to follow jimi but bloody hell its sure is the closet ive ever heard god bless you lads and im glad billy cox has joined you that in itself says it all ladds we love you lads chris burner

  72. S.... D....

    Even though "All Along The Watchtower" was originally Bob Dylan's song, and his version is great in its own right, Jimi took it and made a whole different song out of it and made it his own. There are very few covers that I prefer over the original version of a given song (Johnny Cash's reinterpretation of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt", and Devo's punk-ish deconstruction of The Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" being a couple from that very short list), and I can't decide between Dylan's and Hendrix' versions 'cuz they're 5-star recordings in their own respective ways.

  73. L.... F....

    I remember the day he died my brother said "just another dead junkie no one cares" was he right ?

    L.... F....

    TRUTH & LIES. No. Jimi was murdered by his greedy manager. The info about his murder used to be posted on youtube but I'm not sure if it still is.

  74. j.... h....

    He speaking to his people about the riots of Watts and Detroit. Try and learn instead of burn hear what I say.

  75. m.... M....

    Nads cellar herb brew and some acid and electric lady land...

  76. G.... A....

    replay and replay.....

  77. t.... ....

    Every bit as funky

  78. j.... b....

    NOW A # 1

  79. A.... C....

    When I got to college I had a short amazement period with Jimi...

    A.... C....

    Awesome.

  80. c.... 4....

    SO ILEFT HIM SIPPING HIS TA FELL INTO DREAM AND HAD TO SEE WHERE THATS BLACK SMOKES COMEIGN FRO MSISTERS BROTHERS MOTHERS STANDIGN AORUND CRYING WHNE ILEFT THE SCENE THE SMOKE FIRE WS MAKEIGNT A GHOSTLY WINE .............SO IGOT ON MY HORSE BACK POINK PANTHER HORSES CARTOONS JIM HENDSONS SYD BARRET .......OH WHY DID YOIU BURN YOU BURN YOUR PSYCHIC HOUSE DOWN LOOK AT STARS LOOK AT PLANETS SOME BODY BODY BODY Edgar Cayce psychis already knew todays riddels god aready saw today jimi Hendrix already worte about today youmsut have your own relgon money water cults you msut lead yourself ....try to learn instead of burn here what I say when iriched the valley I giant yoemite starwars took misses helnes away stand over chew on rsoeberry chew over inhale get whiff iof god nostrils ...god nostrils ...nos nos god nos skie falle nangel you have 1000 yers humans you 900 billion rebel you die live with god you live angel names will be hidden foreer again your time is sinking deeper wizrd of oz kids have spoken aplle core Baltimore whose your fun you

  81. c.... 4....

    look over yonder someone house is burning wah wah pedal fuzz pedal and a new Woodstock soundtrack back yard party new navy amps skydiveing amps waterfall amps drop off car fly in firefighting equipment.....we need a man made lake for 400 helicopter ......we need a man made lake for 400 airplanes to pick up water drop off

  82. c.... 4....

    he just off change subject ..sister mothers brothers crying standing around ......my 70 minute disc has to shorting fro m45 mintues to 17 mintues ...56 .....78....89........mindnight lighting flashing around me angel came down from heaven yesterday paul McCarthy white roses just let roses grow white the nbuild walls so your cat can play alice in wonderland whale jah pedal the whale jimmie croekt the whale bubbles in my mouth the whale says channel five is form future from past lfies erateed at man jimmie croket jah petal jah pedal pedal out of here jesus langage still works just god and son mediator showed up in 2000 b.c.e

  83. c.... 4....

    you only have 70 minutes on disc so shortin all jazz tracks take 45 minute wes Montgomery off winterland blues les paul new electric amp blues psychic all isee touches the ground

  84. c.... 4....

    a giant from space with erie grace .....took on horse bck to see wher is this black black smoke comeing from

  85. c.... 4....

    look over yonder somebodys house burning down ok we got 40 mintues to try this new instrument called a disc so just put 40 mintues ondisc 24 tracks will be on other disc

  86. R.... R....

    8:52 PM 2/17/18

  87. T.... H....

    Jimi Wave on Wave on

  88. r.... s....

    Who kow i love this song*

  89. T.... L....

    The first memory I have, is holding onto the bars of my crib at twilight (I couldn't stand otherwise) watching my mother play along with jimi's moon turn the tides. I'm 54 jimi Hendrix has been a positive influence for me my entire life, I remember when we lost him, I cried, I'm still mourning the loss of our worlds greatest musical genius.

  90. s.... ....

    Hey, Hey, the real deal. Nuff respect.

  91. n.... d....

    ..... Last min. And a half .......

  92. r.... s....

    The line is comin and takin all the dead away? did you notice..?

  93. A.... B....

    Great cover, man! xD Hahahaha

  94. A.... M....

    Happy New YEAR ! Thanks

  95. r.... s....

    My other copy has titties all over it/imagine that?

  96. r.... s....

    REAL THING

  97. H.... M....

    I get it that they want to make his work paid-access only, but thank you for posting this until they take it down. I have the CD, and if a hundred people get this for free and 10 of them go buy their own CD, his estate is ahead, right? : )

  98. S.... S....

    try to learn instead of burn.... hear what i say