SMOKE ON THE WATER by RED FOLEY (1944)

"Smoke on the Water" was written in 1944 by Zeke Clements and recorded shortly thereafter by Red Foley.

In 1941, the same year Red made his film debut with Tex Ritter in the Western "The Pioneers", he signed a lifetime contract with Decca Records resulting in his first #1 country hit Smoke On The Water in 1944. It topped the charts for 13 consecutive weeks in 1945, he was the first major performer to record in Nashville.

Smoke on the Water

There will be a sad day comin
For the foes of all mankind
They must answer to the people
And its troubling their mind
Everybody who must fear them
Will rejoice on that great day
When the powers of dictators
Shall be taken all away

CHORUS:
Therell be smoke on the water
On the land and the sea
When our Army and Navy overtakes the enemy
Therell be smoke on the mountains
Where the Heathen Gods stay
And the sun that is risin
Will go down on that day

For there is a great destroyer
Made of fire and flesh and steel
Rollin toward the foes of freedom
Theyll go down beneath its wheels
Therell be nothing left but vultures
To inhabit all that land
When our modern ships and bombers
Make a graveyard of Japan

CHORUS

Hirohito long with Hitler
Will be ridin on a rail
Mussolinill beg for mercy
As a leader he has failed
But therell be no time for pity
When the Screamin Eagle flies
That will be the end of Axis
They must answer with their lives

CHORUS

(Instrumental Interlude)
CHORUS

Lyrics posted October 21, 2005 by Kyle Joseph Ummamum.
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[coolanddark]

great cover of this classic deep purple song!

[KAKproducties]

where's deep purple :)

[Hikikomori013]

@Patriotis1 This is actually more related to the fire bombing of Dresden and coastal Japan.

[wandafoster]

@coolanddark ..ha ha ha Just like Stairway to Heaven....ck it out!

[TOMHYLE88]

@wphinz completely different songs w/same name (pretty common) the Deep Purple song is about "how we recorded our last album & what went wrong when we did" It's my favorite song about work; how troubles arise and you find a way to finish the job.

[MexicalliRose]

@Patriotis1 This song is from WWII. It's about the Axis powers:  Japan, Germany, Italy.

[Mufaso1000]

It's a miracle those assholes on Fox Network, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, or Rush Limbaugh don't use this as their theme song.

[Patriotis1]

Hello, everyone. Can someone answer me if this song has anything to do with Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ? Thank you.

[TheMarkster1957]

@carnut476 Well,Blackmore was about a year old when this was recorded,then about twentysix years later him and Purple recorded thier own version of smoke on the water.