ROCK documentation

Highway Star (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)

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

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Fireball (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)

The golden light above you shows me where you’re from
The magic in your eye bewitches all you gaze upon
You stand up on your hill, they bebop 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

Tried to understand you, 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

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Speed King (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)

Good golly said little Miss Molly
When she was rocking in the house of blue light
Tutti Frutti was oh so rooty
When she was rocking to the east and west
Lucille, oh so real
When she didn’t do her daddy’s will
Come on baby, drive me crazy, do it, do it

     I’m a speed king, you gotta 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, 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

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Chasing Shadows (Lord/Paice)

Chasing shadows over my walls
With myself hardly sleeping
Dwarfs and giants twenty feet tall
Fill the room with their creeping
Sounds of breathing sharpen my ears
Then they fade into nothing
Someone’s laughter out in the street
Fills the night with their loving

I feel the ice in my head
Running his hands through my bed
Not even dreaming I seem to be dead
Colours of yellow and colours of red

Listen, Learn, Read On (Blackmore/Lord/Evans)

In ages past when spells were cast
In a time of men and steel
Where a man was taught no special thing
It was all done by feel

So listen, so learn, so read on
You gotta turn the page, read the book of Taliesyn
Hear the song of lovely Joan
Her sound so sweet and clear
In the courtroom of the King
Among dukedom and the peers

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Hush (South)

Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na

I got a certain little girl she’s on my mind
No doubt about it she looks so fine
She’s the best girl that I ever had
Sometime she’s gonna make me feel so bad

Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na

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