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Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Canonical path: /jimi-hendrix/the-wind-cries-mary
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The Wind Cries Mary
Read The Wind Cries Mary lyrics by Jimi Hendrix on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Wind Cries Mary
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After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footsteps dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind cries Mary
The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow
And shine the emptyness down on my bed
The tiny island sags downstream
Cause the life that lived is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past
With its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
It whispers no, this will be the last
And the wind cries Mary
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Jimi Hendrix performs "The Wind Cries Mary", and this lyric page sits inside the Jimi Hendrix catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to ...And The Gods Made Love and 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) with a short reason for opening each page next.
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