Written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice from Deep Purple’s 1970 album Deep Purple In Rock
“Child In Time” is an anti-Vietnam War protest song considered the band’s epic achievement as well as one of the greatest progressive rock pieces of all time.
Each membe...
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
Sweet child, in time, you'll see the line
The line that's drawn between good and bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying, oh, taking toll
If you've been bad, Lord, I bet you have
And you've not been hit, oh, by a flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Oh, bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
[Bridge]
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ah
Ah
Ah
Oh, I wanna hear you sing
Ah
Ah
Ah
Oh, ah
[Buildup]
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Keyboard Solo]
[Verse 2]
Sweet child, in time, you'll see the line
The line that's drawn between good and bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying, mmm, taking toll
If you've been bad, Lord, I bet you have
And you've not been hit, oh, by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Oh, bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
[Bridge]
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ah
Ah
Ah
Oh, I gotta hear you sing
Ah
Ah
Ah
Oh, you are
[Buildup]
Ah
Ah
Ah, oh
Ah
Ah
Ah
[Outro]
Oh, oh, oh
Oh no
Oh, oh no, oh, uh
Uh, ain't gonna do, oh no
Oh, oh no
Ah, ah, oh
Ah, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Ah, ah
Child in Time was written by Ritchie Blackmore & Jon Lord & Roger Glover & Ian Gillan & Ian Paice.
Child in Time was produced by Deep Purple.
Deep Purple released Child in Time on Wed Jun 03 1970.
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 arou...