Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Album - Machine Head, December 1971
Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, Yan Paice


Main riff

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Intro:
1) - play the main riff 2 times.
2) - play the main riff 2 times with drums - first time with hi-het, second time with snare.
3) - play the main riff with bass-guitar, which starts from the little bass riff like:

E|-0-1-2-3-3-3-3-3...etc.



Lyrics with chords


   Gm
We all came out to Montreux
        F            Gm
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
Gm
To make records with a mobile
F                        Gm
We didn't have much time
Gm
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
 F                            Gm
Were at the best place around
Gm
But some stupid with a flare gun
 F                        Gm
Burned the place to the ground


C             Ab     Gm                C           Ab    (started bass riff then main riff)
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky, smoke on the water



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, smoke on the water


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Main riff and solo
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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, smoke on the water 


(playing the main riff with some arranges N time)


Solo (the most solo-improvise is constructed on the G-min pentatonic on the firsts flats).

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