There was this pianist, whose act got him down,
'cause after seeing Deep Purple, he felt like a stage clown.
Jon Lord took a knife, and stabbed at his Hammond,
when it was stuck in between keys, his playing grew more dramatic.
And just when you thought you really had seen it all,
suddenly, he stood back and threw it, just missing Ritchie Blackmore.
But then, a note you never heard before stuck up to say,
look, he's throwing it again and into the side deeply it will stay...
as Ritchie began to flamenco dance with his guitar like a sword,
and so hassles made of stands getting kicked over again,
are on another stage.
...Ian Paice drum solo, losing fourteen sticks into the audience,
until there are no more in his big stick gig bag...
as he leaves the stage, throwing his last stick into the crowd,
lights go out, and a small spot shines down...
as their lead singer Ian Gillan is standing in a white gown,
with a little golden harp at his shoulder,
singing the start to "Sweet Child in Time".
"sweet child of mine, can you do the time, oh, that's the sound of your mother crying...
can you see the blind man, with the smell of burning lead,
shooting at the moon... bullets flying... wait for the ricochet..."
Ritchie Blackmore is just leaning back against his Marshall stack,
eyes closed, not moving, not playing a note or making a sound,
his right leg sticking out, his heel resting on the top of the first cabinet,
and as the song builds to solo crescendo...
he suddenly pushes himself up and off the amplifier into the air,
starting to play the solo to the song...
and he never really came down, because everyone reached out to hold him up...
as he was waiting for the bass solo...