Smoke On The Water Chords by Deep Purple

_ The funny thing is, I thought that the whole world and his mother would know the story behind Smoke On The Water, but I still get asked. _
_ _ Journalists, people at stage doors, people I meet in the street, what _ _ is the story behind Smoke On The Water?
Was it a mountain burnt down?
I mean, what?
So you have to tell the story again. _ _
_ _ But what I love about Smoke On The Water is if you want to know the story, listen to the words.
_ It's a story song.
There aren't many narrative story songs in the rock and roll genre, and this is a fine example.
_ _ So I would say again, if you want to know what it's all about, just listen to the words.
Just about a couple of years ago now, we were in [Cm] Switzerland _ [G] recording the Machine Head album.
And this song [C] here tells the story of [G] most of the things that happened while we were out there,
particularly the burning down of the casino the night we were there watching [C] the show,
[G] and all the other _ affiliated hassles that we had over the period of time that we were there.
_ Smoke on the water, this one.
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_ _ [F] _ _ [G] Come _ _ on, man. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Ab] _ Go.
_ [G] Higher in the sky.
Get on it.
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Gm] Now.
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[G] Go.
_ They burned down the gambling house.
It died with [F] awful [G] sound.
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_ _ [G] A crooky cop was running in and out.
He [F] was [G] pulling kids out of line.
_ When it all was over,
they had to find [F] another [G] place. _ _ _
Swiss time was running out.
It seemed to be [F] the do's and the [G] rays had.
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Smoke on [Ab] the water.
[G] _ Higher in the sky.
_ Smoke [C] _ _
on [Ab] the water.
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[Gb] _ [G] on the water.
Yeah, _ yeah.
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_ _ _ It's interesting the way a band looks at its material when it comes to singles. _ _
_ _ Because we weren't really, _ it goes without saying, we weren't really a singles band.
It wasn't the kind of thing that we felt comfortable _ _ _ _ putting the material into single form.
It didn't come easy to us. _ _
But we were writing well by that time.
And I honestly thought that we'd written a great single in Never Before.
In fact, to the point that when we sent it across to Warner Brothers in the States, _ _
_ we sent it with the indication that Never Before would be the single.
_ Came back the comment, you must be joking.
[F] _ The hit is Smoke on the Water.
To which we said, you [C] must be joking.
The hit is Never Before.
We honestly didn't think that Smoke on the Water was hit material. _
_ _ How _ wrong can you be?
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