"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" is a song by English-American psychedelic rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience, featured on their 1968 third album Electric Ladyland. Written by eponymous frontman Jimi Hendrix and produced by band manager Chas Chandler, the song features R&B group Sweet Inspirations on backing vocals, and was released as a standalone single in Europe in August 1967 before later featuring on Electric Ladyland the following year.

Work on "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" began in May 1967, when the band recorded four demo takes of the skeletal song at London's Olympic Sound Studios during writing and recording sessions for Axis: Bold as Love. Progress was slow however, and this lack of success was said to leave Hendrix "frustrated and depressed" going into a string of European tour dates lasting for the next few months. Hendrix finished writing the song on a plane journey between tour dates in Los Angeles and New York City on July 3, and The Experience returned to work on the song at New York's Mayfair Studio on July 6, recording over 30 takes including the master recording. The following day the song was completed with overdubs – including backing vocals by R&B group Sweet Inspirations – and mixing, with the final mix produced on July 20. Production was led by Chas Chandler, and the song was engineered by Gary Kellgren.

Hendrix commentators Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek have described "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" as "introspective and melancholy", and quote Hendrix as offering the following insight into the inspiration behind the song:

There are some very personal things in there. But I think everyone can understand the feeling when you're travelling that no matter what your address there is no place you can call home. The feeling of a man in a little old house in the middle of a desert where he is burning the midnight lamp ... you don't mean for things to be personal all the time, but it is.

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