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Machine Head

Deep Purple
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 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
 ( )
  Ooh, 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 feed it
  Yeah, it's a wild hurricane
  All right, 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
  Ooh, she's a killing machine
  She got everything
  Like a moving mouth
  Body control and everything
  I love her and I need her, I seed her
  Yeah, she turns me on
  Alright, hold tight, I'm a highway star
 (Keyboard solo)...
 ( )
 Nobody gonna take my head
  I got speed inside my brain
  Nobody gonna steal my head
  Now that I'm on the road again
  Ooh I'm in heaven again
  I got everything
  Like a moving ground
  An open road and everything
  I love it and I need it, I feed it
  Eight cylinders all mine
  Alright, hold tight, I'm a highway star
 (Guitar solo)  ...
 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
  Ooh, 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 mad hurricane
  Alright, hold tight, I'm a highway star
  I'm a highway star, I'm a highway star
 Maybe I'm A Leo
 (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
 From "Machine Head" 1972.
 riff)
E
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-----|------------1----|------------3-1--|-----------------|-----------------|
-----|-3-3-1--1-3---3--|-3-3-1--1-3------|------------1----|-----------------|
-----|------3----------|------3----------|-3-3-1--1-3---3--|-3-3-1--1---2----|
-----|-----------------|-----------------|------3----------|------3----------|
Bb
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
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-----|------------1----|------------3-1--|-----------------|-----------------|
-----|-3-3-1--1-3---3--|-3-3-1--1-3------|------------1----|--------1--------|
-----|------3----------|------3----------|-3-3-1--1-3---3--|-3-3-1------1----|
-----|-----------------|-----------------|------3----------|------3----------|
  Peeping  round the door, I got a big surprise
Fm
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-1-
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-1-
-----|-0---------------|-0---------------|-1-
-----|---3-1--1-3------|---3-1--1--------|-3-
-----|------3-----1-3--|------3-----1----|-3-
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-1-
  Couldn't  see a thing, but open skies
G7
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-3-
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-3-
-----|-0---------------|-0---------------|-4-
-----|---3-1--1-3------|---3-1--1--------|-3-
-----|------3-----1-3--|------3-----1----|-5-
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-3-
  They've taken  her away, where is she now
  Verse 2
  Wish that she was here, I wish she'd hold my hand
  Maybe she would laugh, maybe understand
  Why was I so cruel, where is she now
  Verse 3
  Acting like a fool, I had to make her cry
  Maybe I'm a Leo, but I ain't a lion
  I'm hurting oh so bad, I want her now
 second guitar solo)
 Pictures Of Home
 (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
 From "Machine Head" 1972.
-----|----------------------------|------------------7--------|
-----|-------------3--------------|-7-------------------------|
-----|---------2-4---4-2-4--------|------9-----7---7----------|
-----|---0-2-4--------------------|--------------9------------|
-----|-2--------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|-------------3--------------|---7-7-7-7-7---------------|
-----|---------2-4---4-2-4--------|-10----------....----------|
-----|---0-2-4--------------------|---------------------------|
-----|-2--------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|
  Somebody's  shouting up at a mountain
  Only my own words return
  Nobody's up there, it's a deception
  When will I ever learn
  I'm alone  here
  With emptiness eagles  and snow
  Unfriendliness chilling  my body
  And whispering pictures  of home
  Verse 2
  Wondering blindly how can they find me
  Maybe they don't even know
  My body is shaking, anticipating
  The call of the black footed crow
  I'm alone here
  With emptiness, eagles and snow
  Unfriendliness chilling my body
  And taunting with pictures of home
  Verse 3
  Here in this prison of my own making
  Year after day I have grown
  Into a hero but there's no worship
  Where have they hidden my thrown
  I'm alone here
  With emptiness, eagles and snow
  Unfriendliness chilling my body
  And screaming out pictures of home
 Never Before
 (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
 From "Machine Head" 1972.
 
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|-----------3----------------|-3----------3--------------|
-----|-4----2-4---------------2-4-|----4---2-4----------------|
-----|----4-----------------4-----|------4--------...---------|
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|
  Somebody,  somebody, come to  my side
  I'm  tired, I'm crying, I'm sick  inside
  My  woman, that woman, just wasn't  right
  Help  me now please my friend
  I ne-ver felt so bad  be-fore
  Never never before
  Verse 2
  So funny, so funny, just like a show
  One name, two people, all in a row
  Somebody, somebody, someone must go
  Help me now please my friend
  I never felt so bad before
  Never never before
 I was hurt when I was younger
 By a woman who was cold
  She took my name, she took my body
 Then she threw away my soul
  Verse 3
  I can't hide, I can't hide my misery
  I know my sorrow won't set me free
  She did it, just see, she did it to me
  Help me now please my friend
  I never felt so bad before
  Never never before
 Smoke On The Water
 (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
 From "Machine Head" 1972.
 notes):  (6 X)
 1.(guitar) 2. 3.(+organ & hi-hat) 4.(+drums) 5.(+bass) 6.
 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,  a fire in the sky
  Smoke  on the water
 2 X)
 They burned down the gambling house
  It died with an awful sound
  Funky Claude was running in and out
  Pulling kids out of ground
  When it all was over
  We had to find another place
  Swiss time was running on
  It seemed that we would lose the race
  Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
  Smoke on the water
 2 X)
 2 X)
 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, 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
  Smoke  on the water,  a fire in the sky
  Smoke  on the water
 4 X) + organ solo (without guitar riff)
 Lazy
 (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
 From "Machine Head" 1972.
 You're lazy, you  just stay in bed
 You're lazy,  just stay in bed
 You don't  want no money, you  don't want no bread
  Verse 2
  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, don't want to cry no more
  Verse 3
  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
 1)
  Lazy, you just stay in bed
  Lazy, just stay in bed
  You don't want no money, you don't want no brea
 Space Truckin'
 (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
 From "Machine Head" 1972.
  Well, we had  a lot of luck on Venus
  We always  had a ball  on Mars
  We're meeting  all the groovy people
  We've rocked  the Milky Way  so far
  We danced  around with Bore-alice
  We're space  truckin' round the the stars
  Come on,  come on, come on
  Let's go Space truckin'
  Come on,  come on, come on
  Space truckin'
  Verse 2
  Remember when we did the moonshot
  And Pony Trekker led the way
  We'd move to the Canaveral moonstomp
  And every naut would dance and sway
  We got music in our solar system
  We're space truckin' round the stars
  Come on, come on, come on
  Let's go space truckin'
  Come on, come on, come on
  Space truckin'
  Verse 3
  The fireball that we rode was moving
  But now we got a new machine
  Yeah yeah yeah yeah, the freaks said
  Man those cats can really swing
  They got music in the solar system
  They rock around the Milky Way
  They're dancing 'round with Borealice
  They're Space truckin' everyday
  Come on, come on, come on
  Let's go space truckin'
  Come on, come on, come on
  Space Truckin'
 Guitar solo/drum solo: G A (? X)
  Come on,  come on, come on
  Let's go space truckin'
  Come on,  come on, come on
  Space Truckin'
  Yeah,  yeah, yeah
  Space truckin'
  Yeah,  yeah, yeah
  Space truckin'

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Readable chord sheet for Machine Head by Deep Purple

[G] [F] [C] [F] [G] [F] [C] [F]

[G]

[C] [Bb]

[G]  Nobody gonna take my car
  I'm gonna race it to the [Bb]gro[C]un[Bb]d
[G]  Nobody gonna beat my car
  It's gonna break the speed of [Bb]sou[C]nd[Bb]
[F]                                                 ([F] [E] [Eb])
  Ooh, it's a killing machine, it's got everything
[D]  Like a driving power, big fat tyres and everything

[Am]  I love it and I need it, I feed it

  Yeah, it's a wild hurricane
  [C]All [D]right, [C]hold [D]tight, [C]I'm [D]a  [F]high[G]way [A]star

[C] [Bb]

[G]  Nobody gonna take my girl
  I'm gonna keep her to the end
  Nobody gonna have my girl
  She stays close on every bend
  Ooh, she's a killing machine
  She got everything
  Like a moving mouth
  Body control and everything

  I love her and I need her, I seed her
  Yeah, she turns me on
  Alright, hold tight, I'm a highway star

(Keyboard solo)...

[D]     [F] [G] [F]

[D] [D] [F] [G] [A] [C] [C] [D]  ([C] [D] [C] [D])

[D] [C] [A] [Ab] [G] [F] [D] [C]

[C] [Bb]

[G]  Nobody gonna take my head
  I got speed inside my brain
  Nobody gonna steal my head
  Now that I'm on the road again
  Ooh I'm in heaven again
  I got everything
  Like a moving ground
  An open road and everything

  I love it and I need it, I feed it
  Eight cylinders all mine
  Alright, hold tight, I'm a highway star

(Guitar solo) [D]     [A]     ...

[C] [B]

[G]  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
  Ooh, 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 mad hurricane

  Alright, [C]hold [D]tight, [C]I'm [D]a  [F]high[G]way [A]star
  [C]I'm [D]a  [F]high[G]way [A]star, [C]I'm [D]a  [F]high[G]way [A]star

Maybe I'm A Leo
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
From "Machine Head" 1972.

riff)

       [Fm]                                 [Cm]                        [Eb]  [E]
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
-----|------------1----|------------3-1--|-----------------|-----------------|
-----|-3-3-1--1-3---3--|-3-3-1--1-3------|------------1----|-----------------|
-----|------3----------|------3----------|-3-3-1--1-3---3--|-3-3-1--1---2----|
-----|-----------------|-----------------|------3----------|------3----------|

       [Fm]                                 [Cm]                        [Eb]  [Bb]
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
-----|------------1----|------------3-1--|-----------------|-----------------|
-----|-3-3-1--1-3---3--|-3-3-1--1-3------|------------1----|--------1--------|
-----|------3----------|------3----------|-3-3-1--1-3---3--|-3-3-1------1----|
-----|-----------------|-----------------|------3----------|------3----------|

[Fm]  [Cm] [Eb] [Bb]  [Cm]

  [Cm]Peeping round the door, I got a big surprise

                 [Bb] [Cm]          [Eb]  [Bb]     [Fm]
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-1-
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-1-
-----|-0---------------|-0---------------|-1-
-----|---3-1--1-3------|---3-1--1--------|-3-
-----|------3-----1-3--|------3-----1----|-3-
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-1-

  [Fm]Couldn't see a thing, but         open skies

                 [Bb] [Cm]          [Eb]  [Bb]     [G7]
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-3-
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-3-
-----|-0---------------|-0---------------|-4-
-----|---3-1--1-3------|---3-1--1--------|-3-
-----|------3-----1-3--|------3-----1----|-5-
-----|-----------------|-----------------|-3-

  They've [G7]taken her away, [F]where [Eb]is [Bb]she [Cm]now

  Verse 2
  Wish that she was here, I wish she'd hold my hand
  Maybe she would laugh, maybe understand
  Why was I so cruel, where is she now

[Cm]

[Cm]

  Verse 3
  Acting like a fool, I had to make her cry
  Maybe I'm a Leo, but I ain't a lion
  I'm hurting oh so bad, I want her now

second guitar solo)

Pictures Of Home
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
From "Machine Head" 1972.

-----|----------------------------|------------------7--------|
-----|-------------3--------------|-7-------------------------|
-----|---------2-4---4-2-4--------|------9-----7---7----------|
-----|---0-2-4--------------------|--------------9------------|
-----|-2--------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|

-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|-------------3--------------|---7-7-7-7-7---------------|
-----|---------2-4---4-2-4--------|-10----------....----------|
-----|---0-2-4--------------------|---------------------------|
-----|-2--------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|

  [Bm]Somebody's shouting up at a mountain

  Only my own words return

  Nobody's up there, it's a deception
  When will I ever [D]le[Em]arn

  I'm a[Bm]lone here
  With [G]emptiness [Bm]eagles and [D]snow
  Un[G]friendliness [Bm]chilling my [D]body
  And [G]whispering [Bm]pictures of [G]home

  Verse 2
  Wondering blindly how can they find me
  Maybe they don't even know
  My body is shaking, anticipating
  The call of the black footed crow

  I'm alone here
  With emptiness, eagles and snow
  Unfriendliness chilling my body
  And taunting with pictures of home

[Bm]

  Verse 3
  Here in this prison of my own making
  Year after day I have grown
  Into a hero but there's no worship
  Where have they hidden my thrown

  I'm alone here
  With emptiness, eagles and snow
  Unfriendliness chilling my body
  And screaming out pictures of home

[Bm]

Never Before
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
From "Machine Head" 1972.

       [Bm]   [A] [Bm]    [A] [Bm]

-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|-----------3----------------|-3----------3--------------|
-----|-4----2-4---------------2-4-|----4---2-4----------------|
-----|----4-----------------4-----|------4--------...---------|
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|
-----|----------------------------|---------------------------|

  [E7]Somebody, somebody,    [D]come [A6]to my  si[E]de
  [E7]I'm tired, I'm crying, [D]I'm  [A6]sick insi[E]de
  [E7]My woman, that woman,  [D]just [A6]wasn't ri[E]ght

  [B7]Help me now please my friend
  I [D]ne-[A]ver [G]felt [A]so [G7]bad be-[A7]fore

  Never never before

  Verse 2
  So funny, so funny, just like a show
  One name, two people, all in a row
  Somebody, somebody, someone must go

  Help me now please my friend
  I never felt so bad before
  Never never before

[C]  I was hurt when I was [F]younger
[Fm7]  By a woman who was [C]cold
  She took my name, she took my [F]body
[Fm7]  Then she threw away my [C]soul

[E]

  Verse 3
  I can't hide, I can't hide my misery
  I know my sorrow won't set me free
  She did it, just see, she did it to me

  Help me now please my friend
  I never felt so bad before
  Never never before

[E]
[E7] [D] [A] [E]         [E7]    [A] [Bm]    [A] [Bm]

Smoke On The Water
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
From "Machine Head" 1972.

notes): [G] [Bb] [C]   [G] [Bb] [C#] [C]   [G] [Bb] [C]  [Bb] [G]  (6 X)

1.(guitar) 2. 3.(+organ & hi-hat) 4.(+drums) 5.(+bass) 6.

[Gm]  We all came out to Montreux
  On the [Bb]Lake [C]Geneva [Gm]shoreline

  To make records with a mobile
  [Bb]     [C] We didn't [Gm]have much time

[Gm]  Frank Zappa and the Mothers
  Were [Bb]at the best [C]place [Gm]around

  But some stupid with a flare gun
  [Bb]Burned the place [C]to the [Gm]ground

  [C]Smoke on the [Ab7]water,[Gm]  a fire in the sky
  [C]Smoke on the [Ab7]water

2 X)

[Gm]  They burned down the gambling house
  It died with an awful sound
  Funky Claude was running in and out
  Pulling kids out of ground

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

  Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
  Smoke on the water

2 X)

2 X)

[Gm]  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, 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

  [C]Smoke on the [Ab7]water,[Gm]  a fire in the sky
  [C]Smoke on the [Ab7]water

4 X) + organ solo (without guitar riff)

Lazy
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
From "Machine Head" 1972.

[G] [C7] [G] [G7] [C7] [C7] [G] [G] [Bb] [F] [G]

[D7]  You're [G]lazy, [C7]you just stay in [G]bed
[G7]  You're [C7]lazy, just stay in [G]bed
[G]  You [Bb]don't want no money, [F]you don't want no [G]bread

  Verse 2
  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, don't want to cry no more

  Verse 3
  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

1)
  Lazy, you just stay in bed
  Lazy, just stay in bed
  You don't want no money, you don't want no brea

Space Truckin'
(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
From "Machine Head" 1972.

[G] [A] [D] [C] [A]  [C] [D] [G] [A]

  Well, we [A]had a lot of luck on Venus
  We [D]always had a [E7]ball on [A]Mars
  We're [A]meeting all the groovy people
  We've [D]rocked the Milky [E7]Way so [A]far
  We dan[D]ced around with Bore-[A]alice
  We're [D]space truckin' round the the [E]stars

  Come [A]on, come on, come on
  Let's go Space truckin'
  Come [E7]on, come on, come on
  Space truckin'

  Verse 2
  Remember when we did the moonshot
  And Pony Trekker led the way
  We'd move to the Canaveral moonstomp
  And every naut would dance and sway
  We got music in our solar system
  We're space truckin' round the stars

  Come on, come on, come on
  Let's go space truckin'
  Come on, come on, come on
  Space truckin'

  Verse 3
  The fireball that we rode was moving
  But now we got a new machine
  Yeah yeah yeah yeah, the freaks said
  Man those cats can really swing
  They got music in the solar system
  They rock around the Milky Way
  They're dancing 'round with Borealice
  They're Space truckin' everyday

  Come on, come on, come on
  Let's go space truckin'
  Come on, come on, come on
  Space Truckin'

Guitar solo/drum solo: G A (? X)

  Come [A]on, come on, come on
  Let's go space truckin'
  Come [E7]on, come on, come on
  Space Truckin'

  [A]Yeah, yeah, yeah
  Space truckin'
  [E7]Yeah, yeah, yeah
  Space truckin'

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