Words and music by: Unknown. Either Jimi Hendrix or Ed Dantes.
Recorded: Dimentional Sound, New York, July/August 1967.
Producer: Ed Chalpin                                                Guitar, Vocals: Jimi Hendrix
Drums: Curtis Knight
Notes: This song was recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Sound, a group Jimi, Curtis Knight and Ed Chalpin formed in 1965, and also played with during 1967.

LYRICS
about that flying saucers scare
'bout the UFO's that people's been seing.
And what's goin' on up there?
So I went to the most likely place,
Where I thought they'd come around.
Took a peanut butter sandwich and my binoculars.
And thought I'd have a sit-down.
To wait that is.
Suddenly I saw it.
(?) about ten thousand miles (perch?)
Quiet landed just beside me.
And a strange voice said:
"Good evening, sir."

If I knew that you were a man like me,
and you liked rock 'n' roll,
I'd have come to see you, friend,
a long long time ago.

"I'm the leader of a band back home",
said he,
"You should see our go-go girls.
Now I got a new dance I'm gonna show you.
It's gonna solve all the problems in the world.
Now, it's good for headache, heartache, misunderstanding, space ache,
I think you here on earth will call that kind of problems."
Just about the time he was about to show me the dance,
he got a phone call from the space ship.
He said; "Hello. I'm on my way back home now."

If I knew that you were a man like me,
and you liked rock 'n' roll,
I'd have come to see you, friend,
a long long time ago.

If I knew that you were a man like me,
and you liked rock 'n' roll,
I'd have come to see you, friend,
a long long time ago.

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