Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

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[Intro/Riff]

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[Verse 1]

    ///     
We all came ou

      ///
t to Montreux
        /   
On the Lake Ge

 /  ///    
neva shoreline
 ///        
To make record

          //
s with a mobil

/ 
e
 /       /
We didn't have

       ///
 much time
 ///        
Frank Zappa an

       ///
d the Mothers
      /     
Were at the be

    /   //
st place aroun

/
d
 ///        
But some stupi

          //
d with a flare

/
 gun
 /          
Burned the pla

    /    /
ce to the grou

//
nd


[Chorus]

 ///       
Smoke on the w

 ///  /// 
ater,     fire

             /// 
 in the sky
 ///       
Smoke on the w

 ///
ater...


[Riff]

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[Verse 2]

      ///   
They burned do

        /// 
wn the gamblin

g house
    /       
It died with a

   /   ///
n awful sound
 ///        
Funky Claude w

    ///
as running in 

and out
 /         
Pulling kids o

 /  
ut the ground
 ///        
When it all wa

   ///
s over
    /       
We had to find

  /     ///
 another place
 ///        
But Swiss time

      ///
 was running o

ut
    /       
It seemed that

           /
 we would lose

      ///
 the race


[Chorus]

 ///       
Smoke on the w

 ///  /// 
ater,     fire

             ///
 in the sky
 ///       
Smoke on the w

 ///
ater...


[Riff]

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[Solo]

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| ///| ///| ///| ///|
| ///| ///| ///| ///|
| ///| ///| ///| ///|
| ///| ///| ///| ///|


[Riff]

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[Verse 3]

 ///        
We ended up at

      ///
 the Grand Hot

el
 /    /  
It was empty c

 /// 
old and bare
 ///        
But with the R

             
olling truck S

 ///
tones thing ju

st outside
 /        
Making our mus

/   ///
ic there
        /// 
With a few red

              
 lights and a 

 ///   
few old beds
 /       /
We make a plac

      ///
e to sweat
 ///        
No matter what

     ///
 we get out of

 this
 /     /  
I know, I know

        /// 
 we'll never f

    
orget


[Chorus]

 ///       
Smoke on the w

 ///  /// 
ater,     fire

             ///
 in the sky
 ///       
Smoke on the w

 ///
ater...


[Riff]

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[Instrumental Verse] fade out


In the Intro/Riff, I mean a two-note chord played

D4 is x55xxx
F4 is xx33xx
G4 is xx55xx
Ab4 is xx66xx.