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Shadows
Emmaretta
Hallelujah
Black Night
Cry Free
Strange Kind Of The Woman
I'm Alone
Freedom
When A Blind Man Cries
Painted Horse
Slow Down Sister
Fire Ice & Dynamite

Shadows

Walk through the night looking for your kind of smile
Hoping to meet you I walk my love for miles
Your face, your eyes, I can't find the girl I look for

Shadows can conceal you
you can't hide, so please don't try
Your life and my love
But to search just makes me cry

Life was so young and another day is gone
Love seems a lost word
How can my heart be strong
When that was is again I wait for love to be there

Then in the shadows I see the face I look for
But then like the night you're gone just as before
A face in a crowd
A shadow once more

Emmaretta

Emmaretta
Did you get my letter
I sent it to you
Oh Emmaretta
Do you still feel
When night is falling
Something's calling
Oh Emmaretta

Behind my thoughts
Oh Emmaretta
I can get to you
To feel better
I must go now
Oh Emmaretta
Full moon's rising
Oh Emmaretta

Oh, it's a thousand miles
Oh, and I need you child
Oh, they can drive me wild
What I feel, make it real

Hallelujah

I am a preacher with a message for my people
Over the world, scratching on the ground
Looking for the peace that nobody has found

I am a spokesman for a better way of living
Love is the word and it can be heard
If you are young the message can be sung

Let me hear you sing, Hallelujah

Oh tell it to the man who's power is the sermon on the wall
Tell it to the man who says you can misjudge them all
Tell it 'till it can be heard above the wailing of the crowd
Tell it on the field of war and hope you'll soon be justified

There is a better way of life and it's not so hard to find
If you live and let the people in your world speak its mind

I am the pupil who sells his life for freedom
All over the world and it can be heard
If you are young the message can be sung

Black Night

Black night is not right,
I don't feel so bright,
I don't care to sit tight
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me
Black night is a long way from home

I don't need a dark tree,
I don't want a rough sea,
I can't feel, I can't see
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me
Black night is a long way from home

Black night, black night,
I don't need black night,
I can't see dark night
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
that I'm free, free to be me
Black night is a long way from home

Cry Free

Pass your mother, lose your brother
Be a lover, too
Well all together make it better
You gotta cry free

Bridges burning, eyes are turning
Now they're learning fools
They're gonna talk it over
While they're talking
You gotta cry Free

Cry free

Fists are shaking, homes are breaking
Know what's making blues
Oh true convictions, satisfaction
While you cry free

Strange Kind Of Woman

There once was a woman
A strange kind of woman
The kind that gets written down in history
Her name was Nancy
Her face was nothing fancy
She left a trail of happiness and misery

I loved her
Everybody loved her
She loved everyone and gave them good return
I tried to take her
I even tried to break her
She said I ain't for takin' won't you ever learn

I want you I need you I gotta be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you I need you I gotta be near you
Ooh I got a strange kind of woman

She looked like a raver
But I could never please her
On Wednesday mornings boy you can't go far
I couldn't get her
But things got better--she said
Saturday nights from now on baby you're my star

She finally said she loved me
I wed her in a hurry
No more callers and I glowed with pride
I'm dreaming
I feel like screaming
I won my woman just before she died

I want you I need you I gotta be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you I need you I gotta be near you
Ooh I had a strange kind of woman

I'm Alone

On the lonely road I'm travelling on
The road that leads nowhere
As the ground and the sky wondering why
I'm alone so alone

I kept rolling on from tears for years
Sun is my only friend
With the wind on the bend and my pack in my hand
I'm alone so alone

I'm alone so alone
I'm alone so alone
I'm alone so alone
And I feel like going home

With my money spent, my clothes all torn
My spirit can't grow
I ain't got no friend where the power ends
I'm alone so alone

I'm alone so alone
I'm alone so alone
I'm alone so alone
And I feel like going home

Freedom

Oh, my honey, take my money
I do what I wanna do
Don't you know the sun is shining
I'm sure trying, I ain't crying
My feet won't touch the ground
I ain't got no more misery

Spread the word I'm living again
Tell the world I'm loving again
Don't you know I feel like giving again
Freedom, oh

No more walking or fast talking
No things are gonna wear me out
I'm sure glad I wasn't born a fool, yeah
Some day, baby, you'll be my lady
I know that it won't be long
We ain't got no more misery

Spread the word I'm living again
Tell the world I'm loving again
Don't you know I feel like giving again
Freedom

Oh, honey honey honey, taking all my money
I do what I really wanna do
Oh, the sun is shining
I tried, I tried, I tried, I tried, I never never cried
Oh, my feet won't touch the ground
I ain't got no more misery

Spread the word I'm living again
Tell the world I'm loving again
Don't you know I feel like giving again
Freedom

When A Blind Man Cries

If you're leaving close the door
I'm not expecting people anymore
Hear me grieving, I'm lying on the floor
Whether I'm drunk or dead I really ain't too sure

I'm a blind man, I'm a blind man and my world is pale
When a blind man cries, Lord, you know there ain't no sadder tale

Had a friend once in a room,
had a good time but it ended much too soon
In a cold month in that room
we found a reason for the things we had to do

I'm a blind man, I'm a blind man, now my room is cold
When a blind man cries, Lord, you know he feels it from his soul

Painted Horse

Child on a painted horse
Streams that will run their course
Gone to a far away shore
My painted horse is weeping

Days of another kind
Frost gets a bruising vine
Why did the carpenter die
My painted horse is weeping

Sweet as a rose so fine
Peaceful as a final time
How old could the lion man cry
My painted horse is weeping

Thoughts of a winter moon
Warm in a distant room
Why did I fall asleep so soon
My painted horse is weeping

Slow Down Sister
(Blackmore/Glover/Turner/Lord/Paice)

Cold blooded woman
Like a switch-blade knife
Baby says 'I'm gonna break the law tonight'
Oh, if your daddy could see you now
Rock 'n' roll rebel on a jailbreak run
Big operator, but a little high-strung
There's one in every crowd

You got it comin' to you
It happens every time
That's what you get for a life of crime
You got it comin' to you
If you cross that line
And you can't back up
When the going gets tough
And if the fire's that hot
You better kiss it all goodbye

Slow down sister
You're burn burn burnin' ...
At the speed of light
You better slow down sister
Put on the brakes
Won't get through the night

Machine gun lover
Gonna shoot to thrill
I'm tellin' you that little girl's kiss could kill
She got me stranded on a one-way street
Can't break the chains
The ties that bind
Slave to the rhythm
And my heart's in time
Beware the taste is bittersweet

You got it comin' to you
It happens every time
That's what you get for a life of crime
You got it comin' to you
If you cross that line
When the lights go down
And you hit the ground
It'll happen so fast
You'll never even have a chance

Slow down sister
I say look out now
Danger in the little girl's eyes
Slow down sister
Well you're gonna find out
Trouble in paradise
And that ain't nice....

You're a non-stop party
You're a butterfly ball
Twice around the block
You think you've done it all
Come on now baby
You know it's true
You want all the money
At the price of fame
Ride to glory
On another man's name
Now there's a lesson here for you

You got it comin' to you
It happens every time
That's what you get for a life of crime
You got it comin' to you
When you cross that line
And you can't back up
When it gets real rough
If the fire's that hot
You better kiss it all goodbye

Slow down sister
Burn, burn, burnin'
At the speed of light
Slow down sister
Put on the brakes
Now we're gettin' through the night

You better slow down sister
I said 'Look out now
There's danger in the little girl's eyes'
Slow down sister
Slow down, slow down
Gonna find out there's trouble
Trouble in paradise
I said slow!...

Fire Ice & Dynamite
(Blackmore/Glover/Turner)

If you find me tuggin' at your sleeve
Oh yeah well maybe you better believe
I'm searchin' for the one true love
That's all I'm thinking of

I believe in taking chances
Wanna see what true romance is
I'll be risking my life tonight
Fire, ice and dynamite
In the fire, ice and dynamite

If you see me runnin' to extremes
Oh yeah, well I'm only chasing my dreams
If you see me comin', close the door
I'm coming back for more

I believe in taking chances
Gonna see what true romance is
I'll be risking my life tonight
Fire, ice and dynamite
In the fire, ice and dynamite
Fire and ice .....dynamite

Don't you worry if it starts to rain
Step aside if you can't stand the pain

From the mountain top to the valley below
Oh yeah where the fightin' rivers flow
I may be burning in the frozen sun
I'm gonna be number one

I believe in taking chances
Wanna see what true romance is
I'll be risking my life tonight
Fire, ice and dynamite

I believe in taking chances....