Lazy

Album: Machine Head (1972)
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  • You're lazy, you just stay in bed
    You're lazy, you just stay in bed
    You don't want no money, you don't want no bread

    If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw, no, no
    If you're drowning you don't clutch no straw
    You don't want to live, you don't want to cry no more

    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

    Lazy, you just stay in bed
    Lazy, you just stay in bed
    You don't want no money, you don't want no bread Writer/s: Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 2

  • Ricky from Killie, United KingdomRitchie has said in interviews that the main riff for Lazy was influenced by Clapton's version of Steppin' Out. Clapton recorded a version with the Bluesbreakers on the Beano album and later with Cream which is more likely where Ritchie heard it (Purple supported Cream in '68).
  • Joe from Grants Pass, OrBlackmores' solo was much more than blues, as anyone of you out there may know or realize...
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