THE WIND CRIES MARY
Jimi Hendrix

INTRO:
   Eb   E    F         Eb/G E/G# F/A
e|-------------------|----------------------|
B|-------------------|----------------------|
G|-8----9----10------|-8----9----10---------|
D|-8----9----10------|-8--- 9----10---------|
A|-6----7----8-------|-8h10-9h11-10h12------|  (x2)
E|-6----7----8-------|----------------------|

VERSE 1:
C             B   Bb                 F
  After all the jacks are in their boxes
        C      B    Bb          F
And the clowns have all gone to bed
        C             B Bb              F
You can hear happiness    staggering on down the street
G          Bb            Eb E F
Footprints dressed in red
        G    Bb       Eb E F     Eb/G E/G# F/A
And the wind whispers Mary

VERSE 2:
C         B  Bb            F
  A broom is drearily sweeping
       C             B  Bb              F
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
    C     B Bb       F
Somewhere a Queen is weeping
    G       Bb          Eb E F
Somewhere a King has no wife
        G       Bb    Eb E F     Eb/G E/G# F/A
And the wind it cries Mary

SOLO:   | F   Eb  | Bb  Ab  |
        | F   Eb  | Bb  Ab  |
        | F   Eb  | Bb  Ab  |
        | G       | Bb      |
        | Db      | F       | F       |

VERSE 3:
C                    B    Bb             F
  The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow
    C                    B Bb           F
And shine their emptiness    down on my bed
         C      B Bb        F
The tiny island   sags downstream
          G                 Bb     Eb E F
Cause the life that they lived is dead
        G    Bb      Eb E F     Eb/G E/G# F/A
And the wind screams Mary

VERSE 4:
C          B  Bb          F
  Will the wind ever remember
    C         B  Bb            F
The names it has blown in the past
              C           B   Bb          F
And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom
               G           Bb         Eb E F
It whispers “No, this will be the last”
        G    Bb    Eb E F     Eb/G E/G# F/A
And the wind cries Mary

OUTRO:
Eb E F     Eb/G E/G# F/A
Eb E F     Eb/G E/G# F/A
Eb E F

THANKS! TO: Marty Schwartz / www.martymusic.com / Marty Music (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhKm_IguQJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJAbHIMUAE