Mk IIa
Ritchie Blackmore (gtr), Ian Gillan (vcl), Roger Glover (bss), Jon Lord (kbr), Ian Paice (drm)

		1 Speed King Good Golly, said little Miss Molly When she was rockin' in the house of blue light Tutti Frutti was oh so rooty When she was rockin' to the east and west Lucille was oh so real When she didn't do her daddies will Come on baby, drive me crazy--do it, do it I'm a speed king you go to hear me sing I'm a speed king see me fly Saturday night and I just got paid Gonna fool about ain't gonna save Some people gonna rock some people gonna roll Gonna have a party to save my soul Hard headed woman and a soft hearted man They been causing trouble since it all began Take a little rice take a little beans Gonna rock and roll down to New Orleans [repeat first two stanzas in inverse order] 2 Bloodsucker Gotta black breast Chinese eyes Got an English brain that's gonna make me wise Got a long story that I wanna tell To a rhythm that I know so well Really got a lot of lovin' that I wanna give Baby I'm a mystery but you know I gotta live I tried another but she didn't want to know Take a hold now if you can Take a lesson from a hard lovin' man I'm a long way from where I wanna go Guess I'll stay awhile I really love you so How's about another sip of all the wine you got Take a tip from me and give it here I'll drink the lot I'm not a winey, I'm a puttin' on a show You really really grab me but I've gotta move Before they know I'm here and spread the news Maybe in while when I've moved around I can find a way to pay you back your twenty pounds Really got a lot of lovin' that I wanna give Baby I'm a mystery but you know I gotta live I tried another but she didn't want to know 3 Child in Time Sweet child in time you'll see the line The line that's drawn between the good and the bad See the blind man shooting at the world Bullets flying taking toll If you've been bad, Lord I bet you have And you've been hit by flying lead You'd better close your eyes and bow your head And wait for the ricochet	4 Flight of the Rat Spread the word around The rat is leaving town The message is a song The misery is gone Once I had a dream To sing before the queen She didn't want to know She wouldn't see the show What a fright I couldn't do it right Oh what a night Mystic demons fly All about the sk With memories of a clown The saddest show in town When I was seventeen Me mother said to me Be careful what you touch You shouldn't take so much I blew my mind She was so kind I could have cried In my mind I had to fin A kind of new way Of being oh so cool Like a blue blooded Well studded English fool Speak about the past Times are changing fast Once I was so weak I couldn't even speak Shaking put a curse Nothing could be worse Walking through the door Who could ask for more Now I'm free And I can see That I am me Spread the word around The rat is leaving town The message is a song The misery is gone Shaking out a curse Nothing could be worse Walking through the door Who could ask for more Now I'm free And I can see That I am me Please stay away 5 Into the Fire Take the trouble to decide the things you do Will not be the things that don't appeal to you See the mess your makin' can't you see your fakin' Gonna make it hard for you, you're gonna--into the fire Turn on the mandrake that was given to you See if you can make it like the others do Feel the blood a knockin' when you're finger poppin' Gonna make it hard for you, you're gonna--into the fire Stop your bleeding mind before it's over and done Listen very closely to the message I've sung Feel the blood a knockin' when you're finger poppin' Gonna get a message through, you're gonna--into the fire 6 Living Wreck You came along for a weekend But you only stayed for one night You pulled off your hair You took out your teeth Oh I almost died of fright You'd better do something for your own sake Yes it's a shame Ah you know you're a living wreck You said you were a virgin Full of promise and mystery But I know that you Would bring me down 'Cos everyone calls you big G You'd better do something for your own sake Yes it's a shame Ah you know you're a living wreck 7 Hard Lovin' Man Break my back with hard lovin' Take my hand and keep movin' Don't slow down we're nearly there now Oh can you stand the pain I'm a hard lovin' man What's your name? It's alright now Trick or treat we're uptight now Wanna feel ya I wanna hear ya Oh here we go again I'm a hard lovin' man Come back here it's not over Can't you see there's still time girl I can last make if fast now Oh gotta catch a train I'm a hard lovin' man

		1 Fireball The golden light about you show me where you're from The magic in your eye bewitches all you gaze upon You stand up on your hill and behop all around you They wonder where you're from oh yeah They wonder where I found you Oh my love it's a long way Where you're from it's a long way I tried to understand you, I tried to love you right The way you smile and touch me always sets my heart alight Your lips are like a fire burning through my soul And people ask me where you're from They really wanna know Oh my soul it's a long way Where you're from it's a long way Magic woman wreckin' up my soul Things you tell me have never been told Magic woman I don't know Electric before me I love you so I love you so You're racing like a fireball dancing like a ghost You're gemini and I don't know which one I like the most My head is getting broken and my mind is getting bust But now I'm coming with you down the road of golden dust Oh my love it's a long way Where you're from it's a long way 2 No No No Really hate the running really hate the game Looking at them all I wanna be unborn again Their suit is getting tighter although they're getting thin The flies are crawling on their face and trying to get in People say that we're to blame I say No no no it's just the game Must we let them fool us no no no Have we got our freedom no no no Is it getting better no no no Do we love each other no no no Must we wait forever no no no Heads are getting stronger bodies getting weak Looking at them all it feels good to be a freak Their hands are getting closer they're reaching out so far The greenies gonna get them make them serve stars Tell them how it is and they say No no no we know it all The washing's getting dirty the air is getting thin It's all in such a mess that no one knows where to begin They talk about creating but all they do is kill They say we're gonna mend it but they never will Poison in the rain but they say No no no we ain't to blame 3 Demon's Eye I don't mind just what you say. I never heard you, baby, never heard you anyway. I don't care what you do just so long as it ain't me and you. Sly, sly, sly like a demon's eye. Everything's good, I said, everything's fine. You don't know, don't know it's the end of your time. How does it feel to be turned away? I've known it, baby, almost every day. Sly, sly, sly like a demon's eye. I don't need you anymore, I don't want you, baby, hanging round my door. You slip and slide round my brain. You think you're so clever, yeah, but you know you're insane. Sly, sly, sly like a demon's eye. I d-d-don't mind just what you say. I never heard you, baby, I never heard you anyway, no I didn't. Everything's good, everything's fine. You don't know it's the end of your time. Sly, sly, sly like the demon's eye, like the demon's eye. 4 Anyone's Daughter I stood under your bedroom window Throwing up a brick No one came I threw one more That really did the trick Your daddy came and banged my head He said what kind of man Is this that's hanging 'round my girl And threw me in the car You're a farmer's daughter You're a farmer's daughter Why do I always get The kinda girl I didn't oughta get I won't get no more eggs and water Now I've laid the farmer's daughter Imagine I was a full-grown man And I could talk just right Could I come and see you here And do this every night Wham! The door comes crashing down Your daddy's face all pale Says come with me you hairy bum I'll put you in my jail You're a judge's daughter You're a judge's daughter Why do I always get The kinda girl I didn't oughta v et Now I'm getting jail and torture 'Cause I made the judge's daughter It seems they're screaming law and order When I go with anyone's daughter Woman I should like some peace And daddy hold your tongue I think you're gonna die of fright When I tell you what I've done I can hear your tales and lies You say I'm dumb and scraggy But man this dumb and scraggy is Your daughter's baby's daddy She's a lucky daughter Such a lucky daughter Why did I always get The kinda girl I didn't wanna get Now I've got what I always fought for 'Cause I've married a rich man's daughter	5 The Mule No one sees the things you do Because I stand in front of you But you drive me all the time Put the evil in my mind Used to sing and say my prayers Live my life without a care Now I have become a fool Because I listened to the mule How can I change when my mind is a friend of a Lucifer hid in the ground Just another slave for the mule 6 Fools I'm crying I'm dying I can see what's wrong with me It's in my head I can see what's gonna be As I lie in my bed Man is not my brotherhood I am of the dead I died as I lived as I loved and was born On some distant hill The reasons to hide were the reasons I cried Fools pass laughing still There can be bad blood in all I can see It's in my brain You don't know the pain I feel As I must live again Rocks and stones can't bruise my soul but Tears will leave a stain They smile to themselves as they lay down my head On some distant hill The blind and the child sweep a tear from their eye Fools smile as they kill I got my own way to go and now I want To take your minds I believe if you could see The blood between the lines I believe that you could be A better kind Please lead the way so the unborn can play On some greener hill Laugh as the flames eat their burning remains Fools die laughing still 7 No One Came Maybe it's because I'm only starting That I think it won't take too long Maybe it's because I can see you laughing That I think you've got it wrong Maybe I could be like Robin Hood Like and outlaw dressed all in green Someone said what's he gonna turn out like And someone else said never mind Well I was big and bold and more than twice as old As all the cats I'd ever seen I grew my hair and bought a suit Of shiny white or was it cream I shook and shivered danced and quivered And stood on a mountain top No one came from miles around and said Man your music is really hot Well I knew what they meant because I was a freak My throat was tired and worn My pretty face just looked out of place As they poured on the scorn I wrote on yellow paper from a man who was the king He said my boy we'll have some crazy scenes There weren't any scenes at all like he was talkin' about He must've been the king of queens Well I could write a million songs about the things I've done But I could never sing them so they'd never get sung There's a law for the rich and one for the poor and there's another one for singers It's die young and live much longer Spend your money and sit and wonder No one came for miles around And said man your music is really funky I believe that I must tell the truth And say things as they really are But if I told the truth and nothing but the truth Could I ever be a star Nobody knows who's real and who's fakin' Everyone's shouting out loud It's only the glitter and shine that gets through Where's my Robin Hood outfit Well I've come and I've gone before you wink an eye No one ever cared enought to say goodbye The money's good and the time you have Fun and games galore But you spend your money and lie in bed forgotten And you wonder what you did it for No one came from miles around And said man who's he?

		1 Highway Star Nobody gonna take my car I'm gonna race it to the ground Nobody gonna beat my car It's gonna break the speed of sound Oooh it's a killing machine It's got everything Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything I love it and I need it I bleed it yeah it's a wild hurricane Alright hold tight I'm a highway star Nobody gonna take my girl I'm gonna keep her to the end Nobody gonna have my girl She stays close on every bend Oooh she's a killing machine She's got everything Like a moving mouth body control and everything I love her I need her I seed her Yeah She turns me on Alright hold on tight I'm a highway star Nobody gonna take my head I got speed inside my brain Nobody gonna steal my head Now that I'm on the road again Oooh I'm in heaven again I've got everything Like a moving ground an open road and everything I love it and I need it I seed it Eight cylinders all mine Alright hold on tight I'm a highway star Nobody gonna take my car I'm gonna race it to the ground Nobody gonna beat my car It's gonna break the speed of sound Oooh it's a killing machine It's got everything Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything I love it and I need it I bleed it Yeah it's a wild hurricane Alright hold on tight I'm a highway star I'm a highway star I'm a highway star 2 Maybe I'm a Leo Peeping round the door I got a big surprise Couldn't see a thing but open skies They've taken her away where is she now Wish that she was here wish she'd hold my hand Maybe she could laugh maybe understand Why was I so cruel where is she now Acting like a fool I had to make her cry Maybe I'm a Leo but I ain't a lion I'm hurting oh so bad, I want her now 3 Pictures of Home Somebody's shouting Up at a mountain Only my own words return Nobody's up there It's a deception When will I ever learn? CHORUS: I'm alone here With emptiness eagles and snow Unfriendliness chilling my body And whispering pictures of home Wondering blindly How can they find me Maybe they don't even know My body is shaking Anticipating The call of the black footed crow... Chorus Here in this prison Of my own making Year after day I have grown Into a hero But there's no worship Where have they hidden my thrown... Chorus 4 Never Before Somebody Somebody Come to my side I'm tired I'm crying I'm sick inside My woman that woman Just wasn't right CHORUS Help me now please my friend I never felt so bad before Never never before So funny so funny Just like a show One name two people All in a row Somebody Somebody Someone must go Chorus I was hurt when I was younger By a woman who was cold She took my name She took my body And she threw away my soul Can't hide I can't hide my misery I know my sorrow won't set me free She did it d'you see she did it to me Help me now please my friend I never felt so bad before Never never before	5 Smoke on the Water We all came out to Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline To make records with a mobile We didn't have much time Frank Zappa and the Mothers Were at the best place around But some stupid with a flare gun Burned the place to the ground Smoke on the water, fire in the sky They burned down the gambling house It died with an awful sound Funky Claude was running in and out Pulling kids out the ground When it all was over We had to find another place But Swiss time was running out It seemed that we would lose the race Smoke on the water, fire in the sky We ended up at the Grand Hotel It was empty cold and bare But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside Making our music there With a few red lights and a few old beds We make a place to sweat No matter what we get out of this I know we'll never forget Smoke on the water, fire in the sky 6 Lazy You're lazy just stay in bed You're lazy just stay in bed You don't want no money You don't want no bread If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw You don't want to live you don't want to cry no more Well my trying ain't done no good I said my trying ain't done no good You don't make no effort no not like you should Lazy you just stay in bed Lazy you just stay in bed You don't want no money You don't want no bread 7 Space Truckin' We had a lot of luck on Venus We always had a ball on Mars Meeting all the groovey people We've rocked the Milky Way so far We danced around with Borealice We're space truckin' round the the stars Come on let's go Space Truckin' Remember when we did the moonshot And Pony Trekker led the way We'd move to the Canaveral moonstop And everynaut would dance and sway We got music in our solar system We're space truckin' round the stars Come on let's go Space Truckin' The fireball that we rode was moving But now we've got a new machine Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah the freaks said Man those cats can really swing They got music in their solar system They've rocked around the Milky Way They dance around the Borealice They're Space Truckin' everyday Come on

		1 Woman From Tokyo Fly into the rising sun, Faces, smiling everyone Yeah, she is a whole new tradition I feel it in my heart My woman from Tokyo She makes me see My woman from Tokyo She's so good to me Talk about her like a Queen Dancing in a Eastern Dream Yeah, she makes me feel like a river That carries me away My woman from Tokyo She makes me see My woman from Tokyo She's so good to me But I'm at home and I just don't belong ... So far away from the garden we love She is what moves in the soul of a dove Soon I shall see just how black was my night When we're alone in Her City of light Rising from the neon gloom Shining like a crazy moon Yeah, she turns me on like a fire I get high My woman from Tokyo She makes me see My woman from Tokyo She's so good to me 2 Mary Long Mary Long is a hypocrite She does all the things that she tells us not to do Selling filth from a corner shop And knitting patterns to the high street queue She paints roses, even makes them smell good And then she draws titties on the khazy wall Drowns kittens just to get a thrill And writes sermons in the Sunday Chronicle How did you lose your virginity, Mary Long ? When will you lose your stupidity, Mary Long ? Mary told Johnny not to write such trash Said it was a waste of public money She made a fuss, they made apologies But everybody thought the show was funny When the nation knew you'd had children It came as such a surprise We really didn't know you'd had it in you How you did it we can only surmise How did you lose your virginity, Mary Long ? When will you lose your stupidity, Mary Long ? Mary Long, you're not alone But you're a long way behind our times What we do in full frontal view Is more honest than your clean-up mind What I'm saying, Mary Long is When you can spare a minute Go find your friend the porny Lord Dig your self a hole and jump in it How did you lose your virginity, Mary Long ? When will you lose your stupidity, Mary Long ? 3 Super Trouper I was a young man when I died I was a flash, I was full of pride I gave it all, I gave my soul, I was so strong I felt the truth, I felt the pain in every song How well you know me You've seen me cry I'm just a shadow In a rock and roll sky I was living in a rock and roll sky I was a king, heavy on the style Super trouper, yes I know you well, making me shine I couldn't see what you did to me. I was so blind How well you know me You've seen me cry I'm just a shadow In a rock and roll sky I wanna be like I was before But this time I'm gonna know the score I need a home I can leave behind knowing you're there Super trouper, I can see you now, return your stare How well you know me You've seen me cry I'm just a shadow In a rock and roll sky 4 Smooth Dancer Black suede, don't mean you're good for me Black suede, just brings your mystery I want to be inside of you But you're black and I don't know what to do You're a smooth dancer But it's alright Cos I'm a freelancer And you can never break me though you try To make me think you're magical Baby, you're the one who can never see the sun Because it don't shine nightly Don't you look at me because I'm gonna shake free You'd better hang on tightly You wanna rule the world, but you're acting like a girl Who's got a false pregnancy You've swollen up inside with nothing but your pride And yet you keep on dancing Black suede, don't waste your time on me Black suede, I sense your mockery I tried to go along with you But you're black and I know just what to do You're a smooth dancer But it's alright Cos I'm a freelancer And you can never break me though you try To make me think you're magical I think you're crazy, your two-timing ways They don't bother me none You'd better do it right because one day or night I'm gonna walk to freedom You know I loved you once and I wanna love again But you don't give nothing You can see it in my eyes so you've got to realize Baby, I ain't bluffing Black suede, don't waste your time on me Black suede, don't bring me misery I tried to be inside of you But you're black and now I know what to do You're a smooth dancer But it's alright Cos I'm a freelancer And I can tell you're faking though you try To make me think you're magical Baby, you're the one who can never see the sun Bacause it don't shine nightly Don't you look at me because I'm gonna shake free You'd better hang on tightly You know I loved you once and I wanna love again But you don't give nothing You can see it in my eyes so you've got to realize Baby, I ain't bluffing Baby, you can rock'n'roll But you can never show your soul, smooth dancer	5 Rat Bat Blue Hey baby, what you gonna do When the lights go up on you ? What's your name, can I drive you home ? Sweet woman, are you all alone ? You're the one for me I'm gonna keep you busy as a bee, could bee, could be Rat bat blue Now, get up woman, don't be slow It's getting late and I wanna go No cause for acting big Got to love, got to live Stick around with me I'm gonna show you things you never thought you'd see, you see Rat bat blue You're so fine Get out ! You didn't understand I'm a hard loving man No way you can satisfy The way you look, the way you lie And when you shut the door Make sure I don't see you 'round here no more Rat bat blue Alright 6 Place In Line I'm living in this line I know my place, could think of no way Of edging along in a loser's race The line was moving slowly Day by night Everybody's shuffling on to keep a place in the line Nine long years I've been in line Getting nowhere there is no reason For this line I don't care. Everybody's standing in the burning sun Everybody's shuffling on keeping a place in the line Don't you think we're gonna make it We've got a place in line We're gonna make it some time Somehow 7 Our Lady Thinking out of line just to make the sun shine Anyway I can be like you Fighting with the truth Trying to hide a fool in a fantasy I'm dreaming, lay me down and take me now Our Lady of the skies Hiding in the sun like a loaded gun reality Aiming high at my dream But I can get along She makes me strong, anyway I'm dreaming and there is no other way Our Lady of the skies Flying in the sky with a bunch of high fidelity I can hear your song Offer me a ring just to show me your sincerity I'm dreaming, let me go Our Lady of the skies

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