Words and music by Jimi Hendrix
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, May 9, 1967
Jimi Hendrix: Guitar, Wooden fluite, Lead vocals         Mitch Mitchell: Drums
Noel Redding: Bass Guitar, Harmony Vocals                Gary Leeds, Graham Nash, Michael Jeffrey: Foot-thumping
Producer: Chas Chandler                                                  Engineer: Eddie Kramer

Got my own world to live through and uh, ha !
And I ain't gonna copy you.

Yeah (sing the song brother...)
Now if uh, six uh, huh, turned out to be nine
Oh I don't mind, I don't mind uh ( Well all right... )
If all the hippies cut off all their hair
Oh I don't care, oh I don't care.
Dig.

'Cause I've got my own world to live through and uh, huh
And I ain't gonna copy you.

White collar conservative flashin' down the street
pointin' their plastic finger at me, ha!
They're hopin' soon my kind will drop and die but, uh,
I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high !
Ow !

Wave on, wave on.

[Spoken:]
Ah, ha, ha
Fall mountains, just don't fall on me
Go ahead on mister business man, you can't dress like me
Yeah !

...dream of, is drugs...
...don't nobody know what I'm talkin' about
I've got my own life to deal with.
I'm the one that's got 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