Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

    Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar
    Ronnie James Dio - Vocals
    Gary Driscoll - Drums
    Craig Gruber - Bass Guitar
    Mickey Lee Soule - Piano, mellotron, clavinet, organ

    Produced by: Ritchie Blackmore, Martin Birch, Ronnie James Dio.
    Mixed Production by: Martin (TheWasp) Birch.

    Inspiration - J.S. Bach


    1. Man on the Silver Mountain
    2. Self portrait
    3. Black Sheep of the Family
    4. Catch the Rainbow
    5. Snake Charmer
    6. The Tempel of the King
    7. If you don't like Rock 'n' Roll
    8. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
    9. Still I'm Sad

    Man On The Silver Mountain (Blackmore/Dio) 4:37

    I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel
    
    I can roll, I can feel
    
    And you can't stop me turning
    
    
    
    Cause I'm the sun, I'm the sun
    
    I can move, I can run
    
    But you'll never stop me burning
    
    
    
    Come down with fire
    
    Lift my spirit higher
    
    Someone's screaming my name
    
    Come and make me holy again
    
    
    
    I'm the man on the silver mountain
    
    I'm the man on the silver mountain
    
    
    
    I'm the day, I'm the day
    
    I can show you the way
    
    And look, I'm right beside you
    
    
    
    I'm the night, I'm the night
    
    I'm the dark and the light
    
    With eyes that see inside you
    
    
    
    Come down with fire
    
    Lift my spirit higher
    
    Someone's screaming my name
    
    Come and make me holy again
    
    
    
    I'm the man on the silver mountain
    
    I'm the man on the silver mountain
    
    
    
    Come down with fire
    
    And lift my spirit higher
    
    Someone's screaming my name
    
    Come and make me holy again
    
    
    
    Well, I can help you, you know I can
    
    
    
    I'm the man on the silver mountain
    
    I'm the man on the silver mountain
    
    
    
    Just look at me and listen
    
    I'm the man, the man, give you my hand
    
    I'm the man on the silver mountain
    
    
    
    Come down with fire
    
    And lift your spirit higher
    
    I'm the man on the mountain
    
    The man on the silver mountain
    
    I'm the night, the light 
    
    The black and the white
    
    The man on the silver mountain

    Self Portrait (Blackmore/Dio) 3:12

    Paint me your picture and hang it on the wall
    
    Color it darkly, the lines must start to crawl
    
    
    
    Down, down, down
    
    Spin me around and around
    
    Draw me away to the night from the day
    
    Leave not a trace to be found
    
    Down, down
    
    
    
    Nothing is real but the way that I feel
    
    And I feel like going down, down, down, down
    
    Down, down, down, down, down
    
    
    
    Paint me a picture of eyes that never see
    
    With flashes of lightning that burn for only me
    
    
    
    Hey hey hey
    
    There's only the devil to pay
    
    I'm ready to go
    
    Pull me down from below
    
    Give me a place I can lay
    
    
    
    Hey hey
    
    Nothing is real but the way that I feel 
    
    I feel like going down, down, down, down
    
    Down, down, down, down
    
    
    
    Hey hey
    
    Nothing is real but the way that I feel 
    
    And I feel like going down
    
    Down, down
    
    
    
    Nothing is real but the way that I feel
    
    And I feel like going down, down, down, down
    
    Down, down, down, down
    
    Down, down, down, down
    
    Down

    Black Sheep Of The Family (S. Hammond) 3:19

    I've got nothing in my head
    
    Got a floor for a bed
    
    The future's at the bottom of a tea cup
    
    
    
    I got a half a pair of shoes
    
    And no time to lose
    
    I'm wondering when I'm going to wise up
    
    
    
    So, fortune shine your light on me and my clothes
    
    Cause we need some security
    
    You get a little bad luck 
    
    And it grows and it grows
    
    I'm the black sheep of the family
    
    
    
    I've got half a pound of rice
    
    A beard full of lice
    
    A mission called retrogression
    
    
    
    I've got pocket full of dust
    
    And eating is a must
    
    You want to make a good impression
    
    
    
    So, fortune shine your light on me and my dog
    
    Cause we need some security
    
    While all the folks are living high up the hill
    
    I'm the black sheep of the family
    
    
    
    Don't talk to me about society
    
    You got to pay the rules
    
    Or pay the penalty
    
    
    
    Because there's nothing to choose
    
    Between a handful of blues
    
    Double indemnity
    
    
    
    The hour was wrong
    
    And my shadow's getting long
    
    My real life's a song, don't need much
    
    But I've got an ache in my head
    
    I wanna go to bed
    
    Tomorrow I don't have to wake up, no
    
    
    
    So wisdom shine your light on me and my knees
    
    Cause it's true what they say about familiarity
    
    There's nothing good this way
    
    And it's true they say
    
    I'm the black sheep of the family
    
    
    
    Oh, my wisdom shine your light on me and my knees
    
    It's true what they say about familiarity
    
    There's nothing good this way
    
    And it's true they say
    
    I'm the black sheep of the family
    
    Yeah, yeah
    
    
    
    I'm the black sheep of the family
    
    Just me and my dog, yeah, yeah
    
    I'm the black sheep of the family
    
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    
    I'm the black sheep of the family
    
    You've got me on my knees
    
    I'm the black sheep of the family
    
    Yeah, yeah, yeah

    Catch The Rainbow (Blackmore/Dio) 6:29

    When evening falls
    
    She'll run to me
    
    Like whispered dreams
    
    Your eyes can't see
    
    
    
    Soft and warm 
    
    She'll touch my face
    
    A bed of straw
    
    Against the lace
    
    
    
    We believed we'd catch the rainbow
    
    Ride the wind to the sun
    
    Sail away on ships of wonder
    
    
    
    But life's not a wheel
    
    With chains made of steel
    
    So bless me
    
    
    
    Come the dawn
    
    Come the dawn
    
    Come the dawn
    
    Come the dawn
    
    
    
    We believed we'd catch the rainbow
    
    Ride the wind to the sun
    
    And sail away on ships of wonder
    
    
    
    But life's not a wheel
    
    With chains made of steel
    
    So bless me, oh bless me, bless me
    
    
    
    Come the dawn
    
    Come the dawn
    
    Come the dawn
    
    Come the dawn

    Snake Charmer (Blackmore/Dio) 4:30

    Old hollow eyes
    
    Got no ties
    
    Walking by the light of the moon
    
    
    
    Hey shiny boots
    
    With strings and flutes
    
    Rising like a crazy balloon
    
    
    
    Close your door
    
    He's on the loose
    
    Umm, here he comes
    
    No hope for you, ooh
    
    Snake charmer, we'll haunt you
    
    
    
    So, hey mystery man
    
    What's your plan
    
    I've got to tell the world
    
    To beware you don't care
    
    
    
    He'll hypnotize you
    
    And tell you lies
    
    He's hiding at the top of the stairs
    
    
    
    Close your door
    
    He's on the move
    
    I see him coming out
    
    There's no hope for you, ooh
    
    Snake charmer
    
    Snake charmer
    
    Get out!
    
    
    
    Hey fancy face
    
    Got no place
    
    Living from a hole in the ground
    
    
    
    Old sparkle eyes
    
    He never cries
    
    One step ahead of the hounds
    
    
    
    Close your door
    
    He's on his way
    
    He's coming out of the shadows now, now
    
    No hope for you, ooh
    
    Snake charmer
    
    Snake charmer, now listen to me yeah
    
    
    
    Hey hollow eyes
    
    Got no ties
    
    Oh shiny boots
    
    Play your strings and flutes
    
    
    
    Mystery man what's your plan
    
    Fancy face, got no place
    
    Snake charmer
    
    He'll harm yer
    
    
    
    Oh sparkle eyes
    
    Got no ties
    
    Oh shiny boots
    
    Close your door
    
    He's on the loose
    
    Snake charmer
    
    My mystery man what's your plan
    
    I've got to tell the world to beware
    
    You don't care
    
    Hypnotized

    The Temple Of The King (Blackmore/Dio) 4:43

    One day in the year of the fox
    
    Came a time remembered well
    
    When the strong young man of the rising sun
    
    Heard the tolling of the great black bell
    
    
    
    One day in the year of the fox
    
    When the bell began to ring 
    
    Meant the time had cometh
    
    For one to go
    
    To the temple of the king
    
    
    
    There in the middle of the circle he stands
    
    Searching, seeking
    
    With just one touch of his trembling hand
    
    The answer will be found
    
    
    
    Daylight waits while the old man sings
    
    Heaven help me
    
    And then like the rush of a thousand wings
    
    It shines upon the one
    
    And the day had just begun
    
    
    
    One day in the year of the fox
    
    Came a time remembered well
    
    When the strong young man of the rising sun
    
    Heard the tolling of the great black bell
    
    
    
    One day in the year of the fox
    
    When the bell began to sing
    
    It meant the time had cometh
    
    For one to go
    
    To the temple of the king
    
    
    
    There in the middle of the people
    
    He stands
    
    Seeing, feeling
    
    With just a wave of a strong right hand
    
    He's gone
    
    To the temple of the king
    
    
    
    Far from the circle at the edge of the world
    
    He's hoping, wondering
    
    Thinking back from the stories he's heard
    
    Of what he's going to see
    
    
    
    There in middle of the circle it lies
    
    Heaven help me
    
    Then all could see by the shine in his eyes
    
    The answer had been found
    
    
    
    Back with the people in the circle
    
    He stands
    
    Giving, feeling
    
    With just one touch of a strong right hand
    
    They know
    
    Of the temple and the king

    If You Don't Like Rock 'N' Roll (Blackmore/Dio) 2:35

    You'd never know there was some music playin'
    
    Until you talked your way inside the door
    
    
    
    And then a sound like rollin' thunder
    
    Begins to push you right thru the floor
    
    
    
    And there's a great white sign
    
    With big black letters
    
    That just about explains it all
    
    
    
    If you don't like rock 'n' roll
    
    Well, if you don't like rock 'n' roll
    
    If you don't like rock 'n' roll
    
    Then it's too late now
    
    Well it's too late now
    
    
    
    Hey hey
    
    Of course there was the usual lady
    
    And she was dressed the way the stories tell
    
    
    
    So bein' cool I made a move to grab her
    
    But you could see she read story well
    
    
    
    And then she whipped out a card
    
    With big black letters
    
    
    
    That just about explained it all
    
    Well if you don't like rock 'n' roll
    
    If you don't like rock 'n' roll
    
    Well if you don't like rock 'n' roll
    
    Then you're too late now
    
    Then you're too late now
    
    
    
    Well, if you don't like rock 'n' roll
    
    Well, if you don't like rock 'n' roll, yeah
    
    If you don't like rock 'n' roll
    
    Well it's too late nown
    
    You're too late now
    
    
    
    If you don't like rock 'n' roll
    
    If you don't like my rock 'n' roll
    
    Then you're too late now
    
    Then you're too late now
    
    Then you're too late, too late now

    Sixteenth Century Greensleeves (Blackmore/Dio) 3:29

    It's only been an hour
    
    Since he locked her in the tower
    
    The time has come
    
    He must be undone
    
    By the morning
    
    
    
    Many times before
    
    The tyrant's opened up the door
    
    Then someone cries
    
    Still we close our eyes
    
    Not again
    
    
    
    Meet me when the sun is in the western skies
    
    The fighting must begin before another someone dies
    
    Cross bows in the fire light
    
    Green sleeves waving
    
    Madmen raving
    
    Through the shattered night
    
    Yeah yeah yeah
    
    
    
    Flames are getting higher
    
    Make it leap unto the spire
    
    Draw bridge down
    
    Cut it to the ground
    
    We shall dance around the fire
    
    
    
    No more night
    
    We have seen the light
    
    Let it shine on bright
    
    Hang him higher, higher
    
    
    
    Draw bridge down
    
    Cut it to the ground
    
    We shall dance all around the fire, around the fire
    
    
    
    No more night
    
    we've seen the light
    
    let it shine on bright
    
    
    
    Hang him higher, higher
    
    Put the man on the fire
    
    
    
    Draw bridge down
    
    Cut it to the ground
    
    We gotta dance around the fire, the fire, the fire
    
    
    
     

    Still I'm Sad (Samwell-Smith/McCarty) 3:52

    (Instrumental)


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