Deep Purple - Child In Time

 

 



 

 

 child in time_deep purple(1970).mp3

 

  Artist : Deep Purple

  Album Title : 'Deep Purple In Rock'

  Genre : Hard Rock, Heavy Metal

              Psychedelic Rock

  Record Label : Harvest (UK)

                        Warner Bros. (USA)

  Length : 10'18"

  Recorded : 1969-1970 (IBC, De Lea & Abbey Road Studios)

 Released Date : 1970.6.22

  Writer(s) : Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan

                 Roger Glover, Jon Lord

                 Ian Paice

  Producer : Deep Purple

 



 

 

Child In Time - Deep Purple

                             (In Album'Deep Purple In Rock', 1970)

 

Sweet child in time you'll see the line
The line that's drawn between, Good and the bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying, taking toll
If you've been bad, Lord I bet you have
And, You've not been hit by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet

I wanna hear you scream

Sweet child in time you'll see the line
The line that's drawn between, Good and the bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying, taking toll
If you've been bad, Lord I bet you have
And, You've not been hit by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet

I gotta hear you scream


 

 

     

 



 

 Child In Time - Deep Purple (Live At The Jul Manchester, 1970)

 



 

Child In Time

This is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple.

Featured on their 1970 album 'Deep Purple in Rock',

 the song is 10 minutes and 18 seconds long.

 

Written by the band in 1969, Child in Time is a protest song to the Vietnam War.

It is said by the band members themselves to have been inspired

by a riff featured in a song by the Psychedelic band It's a Beautiful Day,

called 'Bombay Calling'.

 



 

As Ian Gillan put it in a 2002 interview,

There are two sides to that song - the musical side and the lyrical side.

On the musical side, there used to be this song 'Bombay Calling'

by a band called It's A Beautiful Day. It was fresh and original,

when Jon was one day playing it on his keyboard.

 

It sounded good, and we thought we'd play around with it,

change it a bit and do something new keeping that as a base.

But then, I had never heard the original 'Bombay Calling'.