The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Off of the Experience’s second album, [Axis: Bold as Love], this song is often interpreted as an “Individualist Anthem” that takes inspiration from the counterculturalist movement of the 1960s, with the underlying conflict between the “Hippies” and “White-collar conservatives” of the business world.
[Intro]
Yeah, sing the song for us
[Verse 1]
If the sun refused to shine
I don't mind, I don't mind (yeah)
If the mountains fell in the sea
Let it be, it ain't me
(Alright), I got my own world to look through
And uh, I ain't gonna copy you, yeah
[Verse 2]
Now if a 6 turned out to be 9
I don't mind, I don't mind, (well alright)
If all the hippies cut off all their hair
I don't care, I don't care
Dig, cause I got my own world to live through
And uh, and I ain't going to copy you
[Bridge]
White-collared conservatives
Flashing down the street
Pointing their plastic finger at me
They're hoping soon, my kind will drop and die
But I'm going to wave
My freak flag high, high ow!
[Instrumental Break]
Wave on, wave on
[Verse 3]
Uh, ha-ha, fall mountains
Just don't fall on me
Go ahead on Mr. Businessman
You can't dress like me, yeah
Nobody knows what I'm talking about
I've got my own life to live
I'm the one that's going to have to die
When it's time for me to die
So let me live my life
The way I want to, yeah
Sing on brother
Play on drummer
[Instrumental Outro]
If 6 Was 9 was written by Jimi Hendrix.
If 6 Was 9 was produced by Chas Chandler.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience released If 6 Was 9 on Fri Dec 01 1967.