Black Night

Album: Deep Purple In Rock (1970)
Charted: 2 66
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  • 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 Writer/s: Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 4

  • Stargrazzer from UkMy elder brother used to play this a lot on his record deck, and I can even remember learning to play the main riff & can still manage it ~53 years later!
  • AnonymousBlack knight was a ufo doing the rounds in 1956
  • Cj Thomson from Sarasota, Fl. My all time favorite Deep Purple song.
  • Paul from Rothesay, Nb, NbClassic Purple! Check out Blues Magoos "We Ain't (Got Nothing Yet)" from 1966. There are similarities.
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