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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, Ohh taking toll

If you've been bad Oh Lord I bet you have And you've not been hit Oh by flying lead You'd better close your eyes Ooohhhh bow your head Wait for the ricochet
I wanna hear you sing

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"Gillian is quoted as saying that the song was created "using the Cold War as the theme", adding "the words came easily because we were all aware of the nuclear threat looming over us at what was probably the height of the Cold War."

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Taken from their fourth album Deep Purple In Rock, the band performs 'Child In Time' live on the British TV show "Doing Their Thing".

The performance features the "Mark II line-up": Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice."

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Here's the Rock Concert version two years later:

Deep Purple - Child in Time - Made in Japan (1972)

www.youtube.com

RIP Renee Good

(Is America next?)

Now is, imho, the worst time for this country since the Cold War, Nixon, and the War in Vietnam.
With potential to be much worse than GW, Iraq, and the Bush Republican Recession.

I say that as someone who was Draft Bait a the time, and as a child had endured with all the other children in the country Atomic Bomb Drills in all schools including my elementary school.

As if sitting in the hallway covering our heads with our hands would protect us. Actually that's pretty much what some Americans are doing today; if one can be callous about these Street Executions, then one should reevaluate their mind and their soul.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 06:35 PM | Reply

Here's the Rock Concert version two years later:

Deep Purple - Child in Time - Made in Japan (1972)

www.youtube.com

RIP Renee Good

(Is America next?)

Now is, imho, the worst time for this country since the Cold War, Nixon, and the War in Vietnam.
With potential to be much worse than GW, Iraq, and the Bush Republican Recession.

I say that as someone who was Draft Bait a the time, and as a child had endured with all the other children in the country Atomic Bomb Drills in all schools including my elementary school.

As if sitting in the hallway covering our heads with our hands would protect us. Actually that's pretty much what some Americans are doing today; if one can be callous about these Street Executions, then one should reevaluate their mind and their soul.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 06:35 PM | Reply

all i wanted for christmas was a decent mouse that didn't double post! ----!!

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 06:37 PM | Reply

AND I messed up the link in #1 (and 2)

here's the live stadium version

www.youtube.com

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 06:40 PM | Reply

AND I messed up the link in #1 (and 2)

here's the live stadium version

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 06:40 PM | Reply

Twice

(lets see if it happens again! this is fun, eh?)

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 06:41 PM | Reply

youtu.be

#7 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 08:01 PM | Reply

youtu.be

#8 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-09 08:03 PM | Reply

youtu.be

O you who are in your tiny boat,
eager to hear more, following
behind my ship that advances, singing,
[go back, if you are to see your shores again.]

Do not put yourselves to sea, for if
you lose me, you too will be forever lost.
The waters I travel have never yet been crossed;
Minerva breathes, and Apollo guides me,
it is the nine Muses who show me the North Star.

#9 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-01-09 08:19 PM | Reply

Fartfisher's like a 5 year old calling the grownups, 'stupid'.

Of course, he's never had anything else, so...

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 09:05 PM | Reply

Fartfisher's like a 5 year old calling the grownups, 'stupid'.

Of course, he's never had anything else, so...

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 09:05 PM | Reply

Such Great Heights - The Petersens and Dawson Hollow indie-folk-rock band.
(LIVE)
11 hrs ago...

www.youtube.com

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-09 11:13 PM | Reply

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