"Guess I'll always be A soldier of fortune.."R.I.P. JOHN LORD ..

"We're as valid as anything by

Beethoven." LORD said in 1973 .

Ο Lord έπασχε από καρκίνο στο πάγκρεας και υπέστη μια 

πνευμονική εμβολή η οποία απέβη τελικά μοιραία.

Οι Deep Purple είναι αγγλικό ροκ συγκρότημα, το οποίο

δημιουργήθηκε στο Χέρτφορντσαϊρ (Hertfordshire) το 1968.

Έχουν μπει στο Βιβλίο των Ρεκόρ Γκίνες ως το πιο

θορυβώδες συγκρότημα και έχουν πουλήσει πάνω από

100.000.000 δίσκους, και ήταν ενεργοί ως συγκρότημα, με

ορισμένα διαλείμματα, από το 1968 ως σήμερα.

Ο Lord ήταν ένας από τους συνθέτες του θρυλικού

τραγουδιού Smoke on 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, now

Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

But burning down

You know, they burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
He was pulling kids out the ground

When it all was over
We had to find another place
Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race, now

Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky, burning, burning
Smoke on the water

Down to the ground
Hear you play

You know now, we ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty cold and bare
With the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there

Few red lights and a few old beds
We made a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know, I know we'll never forget, now

Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

Everywhere, everywhere

See me burn, alright now
It was tumblin' down
Burn, burn, burn, yeah
It's burning down, oh baby
It's burning down

It's burning down
Burning down

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"SOLDIER OF FORTUNE "

I have often told you stories
about the way
I lived the life of a drifter
waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand and sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me and love me
And I would surely stay

But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill going round
Guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune.

Many times I've been a traveler
I looked for something new
In days of old when nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thought my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here.

Now I feel I'm going older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill going round
Guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune

Yes, I can hear the sound
of a windmill going round
I guess I'll always be
a soldier of fortune.

I guess I'll always be
a soldier of fortune.

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