‘Foxy Lady’ (or alternatively ‘Foxey Lady’) is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It first appeared on their 1967 debut album Are You Experienced and was later issued as their third single in the U.S. with the alternate spelling. It is one of Hendrix's best-known songs and was frequently performed in concerts throughout his career. Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at number 153 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Music critic Thomas Ward points out "if one song could be said to encapsulate Hendrix’s entire oeuvre, 'Foxey Lady' is certainly closer than most". The song opens with a fingered note "shaken in a wide exaggerated vibrato" so the adjacent strings are sounded. After the amplifier is allowed to feed back, Hendrix slides down to the rhythm figure, which uses a dominant seventh sharp ninth chord, a jazz and rhythm and blues-style chord, often referred to as the "Hendrix chord". Hendrix's biographer Keith Shadwick writes: “Hendrix casts the whole solo in the blues vernacular, using bent notes and glisses, or slides, between the notes primarily within the blues or pentatonic scales. To that he adds the new melodicism he had been hearing on recent British rock records.”
Although Hendrix's albums performed quite well on the record charts, ‘Foxy Lady’, along with the other early singles, made a relatively weak showing, peaking at number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. In 1967, Polydor Records issued the single in Germany with ‘Manic Depression’ as the B-side, but it did not appear on the charts. Record World said of the single that "This one has the beat to perk up teen ears. Jimi wails it in nitty gritty fashion."
Hendrix opened for The Monkees on their 1967 tour. When he played this, the young girls who came for The Monkees and had no interest in Hendrix shouted "Davy!" when Hendrix sang "Lady," resulting in "Foxy Davy," and turning it into a tribute to their idol, Monkees lead singer Davy Jones.
This was featured in the movie Wayne's World. It is used in a scene where Garth (Dana Carvey), sings it while thinking about his dream woman, played by Donna Dixon.
In the booklet for the Experience Hendrix CD, Hendrix was quoted as saying this was the only happy song he had ever written. He said that he usually just doesn't feel happy when writing songs.
Labels – Track (UK album), Reprise (US single)
Songwriter – Jimi Hendrix
Producer – Chas Chandler
SONG LYRICS
[Intro]Foxy
Foxy
[Verse 1]
You know you're a cute little heartbreaker
Foxy
And you know you're a sweet little lovemaker
Foxy
[Chorus]
I want to take you home, yeah
I won't do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh, foxy lady
[Verse 2]
Now I see you, heh, are down on the scene
Foxy
You make me want to get up and scream
Foxy
Ah, baby listen now
[Chorus]
I've made up my mind
I'm tired of wasting all my precious time
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Foxy lady
Here I come
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Yeah, I'm gonna take you home
I won't do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Foxy lady
[Outro]
Here I come baby
I'm coming to get you
Aw, foxy lady yeah yeah (Foxy)
Oh, you look so good (Foxy)
Foxy
Oh yeah (Foxy)
Aw foxy
Yeah (Foxy)
Get it, babe (Foxy)
Foxy
You make me feel like (Foxy)
Feel like saying
Foxy
Ah lady (Foxy)
Foxy (Foxy) lady
Foxy lady