Burning Of the Midnight Lamp Chords
by Jimi Hendrix
Burning Of the Midnight Lamp by Jimi Hendrix is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords C, F, Bb, C7, D, B, E, G, G6 and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intr: C F Bb C C7
F
The morning is dead
D
And the day is, too
B
There's nothing left here to meet me
E
But the velvet moon
C G G6 G
All my loneliness I have felt today
D
It's a little more than enough
F
To make a man throw himself away
G Am G
And I continue
Am G
To burn the midnight lamp
C G
Alone
{Intr.}
F
Now the smiling portrait of you
D
Is still hangin' on my frowning wall
B E
It really doesn't, really doesn't bother me too much at all
C
It's just the ever falling dust
G G6 G
That makes it so hard for me to see
D
That forgotten earring layin' on the floor
F
Facing coldly towards the door
G Am G
I continue
Am G
To burn the midnight lamp
C G
Lord, alone
{SOLO}
Loneliness is such a drag
{Intr.}
F
So here I sit to face
D
That same old fire place
B
Gettin' ready for the same old explosion
E
Goin' through my mind
C
And soon enough time will tell,
G G6 G
About the serpents in the wishing well
D
And someone who will buy and sell for me
F
Someone to toll my bell
G Am G
But I continue
Am G
To burn the midnight lamp
Am G
Lord, alone
(C G)
Darlin' can't ya hear me callin' you?
So lonely
Gonna have to blow my mind
Lonely