Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

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Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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Lavet af Daniel Jonassen

I like to play this version in a shuffle rhythm on an acoustic guitar! (Easier if you transpose it +2 so it 
becomes Am instead of Gm). Sounds great that way.
I know that the chords in the original song are powerchords (G5), but this version is an acoustic version
meaning these are the full chords and not just powerchords.


[Intro]
|        |        |        |        | (x6)

[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 hav

e 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, a fire i

n the sky
            
Smoke on the w


ater


[Riff]
|        |        |        |        | (x2)


[Verse 2]

They burned do

wn the gamblin

g house
              
It died with a

        
n awful sound

A funky Claude

 was running i

n and out
         
  Pulling kids

 out the groun

d

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, a fire i

n the sky
            
Smoke on the w


ater


[Riff]
|        |        |        |        | (x2)


[Solo]
|    |    |   |    | (x4)
|     |     |     |     |

[Riff]
|        |        |        |        | (x2)


[Verse]

We ended up at

 the Grand Hot

el
             
It was empty, 


cold and bare

But with the R

olling truck S

tones thing ju

st outside
           
 Making our mu

sic there

With a few red

 lights, a few

 old beds
             
We made 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, a fire i

n the sky
            
Smoke on the w


ater


[Outro]
|        |        |        |        | (x4)
 
(fade out, c. 

12 bars)

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