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“Hey, Joe” is a song about a man planning on fleeing to Mexico after shooting his wife, so it’s real romantic. It was originally written and performed by garage rock band The Leaves in 1965.
“Hey Joe” is not actually a Jimi Hendrix original. Rather, “Hey Joe” is considered a rock standard that originated in the early 1960s. It has been performed, rearranged, and recorded by a ...
While the fast “Hey Joe” was dominating the Sunset Strip, in New York Tim Rose was playing a slower, bluesier version, which sounded more like the spooky old folk song Rose claimed it was.