House Burning Down: Jimi Hendrix & Relevance in 2020

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I believe Jimi Hendrix wrote the song referred to in the thread title in response to the Watts riots of the Sixties, but listening to my old vinyl copy, it certainly seems relevant again. Will we never learn?
And what a work of musical genius.
 
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I think this is the song:



and these are the lyrics:

https://genius.com/The-jimi-hendrix-experience-house-burning-down-lyrics

Sadly, we will never learn this generational knowledge and will repeat the mistakes of the past over and over.again.

Having said that, let's focus on your interest in the song and lyrics in this thread and talk about the news in a separate thread in the General Discussion forum.
 
Well, OK. The guitar intro still gives me goosebumps.