On The Wings Of A Russian Foxbat

(cook/coverdale)

She was a juke-box dancer
A blue eyed gypsy queen
She always had an answer
For what she'd done
And where she'd been
A feathercane lady midnight
For all around to see
She spoke with words of wisdom
And this is what she said to me

Lady luck
C'mon give me what i want
Pull me up
Lady luck
If i see you again
I will call you my friend

I have always been a sinner
But then the lady came along
She stole my heart and turned me 'round
'till i didn't know right from wrong
She whispered words of kindness
I'd never ever heard before
Golden words and silver tongue
Till i really couldn't take no more

Lady luck
C'mon give me what i want
Pull me up
Lady luck
If i see you again
I will call you my friend
C'mon shake me

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

The sky is red, i don't understand,
Past midnight i still see the land.
People are sayin' the woman is damned,
She makes you burn with a wave of her hand.
The city's a blaze, the town's on fire.
The woman's flames are reaching higher.
We were fools, we called her liar.
All i hear is "burn!"

I didn't believe she was devil's sperm.
She said, "curse you all, you'll never learn!
When i leave there's no return."
The people laughed till she said, "burn!"
Warning came, no one cared.
Earth was shakin', we stood and stared.
When it came no one was spared.
Still i hear "burn!"

You know we had no time,
We could not even try.
You know we had no time.

You know we had no time,
We could not even try.
You know we had no time.

The sky is red, i don't understand,
Past midnight i still see the land.
People are sayin' the woman is damned,
She makes you burn with a wave of her hand.
Warning came, no one cared.
Earth was shakin, we stood and stared.
When it came no one was spared.
Still i hear "burn!"

- ritchie blackmore, david coverdale, jon lord & ian paice

(bolin)

Instrumental, orginally from bolin's solo album "teaser".

(bolin/lord/hughes)

The world around us hangs in doubt
You face a crime that we'll hear about
To pay the cost would never be the same
Eternal lovers we're not to blame
There's no mistake there's no refrain
The same surroundings that stood
Are here again - this time...

As i look around you can't be found
To lose you i'd rather see
The endless time of space go passing by
This time around...
This time around...
So look around we all will be found
In love...

The world around us hangs in doubt
You face a crime that we'll hear about
To pay the cost would never be the same
Eternal lover you're not to blame
There's no mistake there's no refrain
The same surroundings that stood
Are here again - this time...

As i look around you can't be found,
To lose you, i'd rather see
The endless time of space go passing by
This time around...
This time around...
To lose you i'd rather see
The endless time of space go passing by
Fly...
By...

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