Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
The star spangled banner song by jimi hendrix free#
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, Larry Lee backed up Hendrix on a number of songs.
He almost never performed encores, but at Woodstock, despite the vanishing crowd, he did. Hendrix performed an encore at Woodstock, a rarity.Hendrix and Woodstock: Three Little Known Facts about the Performance That Defined the ’60s And, at Woodstock… well I’m sure everyone agreed with Jimi’s rage filled take on the song. It seems as if everyone had very strong opinions about what was going on during that time. Although contemporary political pundits described his interpretation as a statement against the Vietnam War, three weeks later Hendrix explained its meaning: “We’re all Americans … it was like ‘ Go America!‘… We play it the way the air is in America today.