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Rampant - 1974


Released: 1974
Recorded: Montreux, Switzerland
Length: 39:43
Label: Mooncrest, A & M, Vertigo
Producer: Roger Glover


Track Listing:

1. Silver Dollar Forger - 5:36
2. Glad When You're Gone - 4:17
3. Loved And Lost - 5:12
4. Shanghai'd In Shanghai - 3:43
5. Jet Lag - 6:43
6. Light My Way - 4:09
7. Sunshine - 4:15
8. Shapes Of Things / Space Safari (McCarty, Relf, Samwell-Smith) - 6:21

Line up:

- Dan McCafferty (vocals, photography)
- Manny Charlton (guitar, producer, photography)
- Pete Agnew (bass guitar, guitar, background vocals, liner notes)
- Darrell Sweet (drums, background vocals, liner notes, photography)

Additional musicians & other credits:

- Roger Glover (producer, bass guitar)
- Jon Lord (synthesizer, piano)
- Vicki Brown, Barry St. John, Liza Strike (background vocals)
- Mick Carpenter (project coordinator)
- Louie Austin (engineer)

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Silver Dollar Forger:

Swingin' my sweet chariot low 
Gotta make it home to Georgia 
Excise lawman on my trail 
I'm a silver dollar forger 
I see a road block on my right 
Engine take me through the night 
Gotta make it home to the arms of my sweet baby. 

Twenty miles from that Georgia state 
I can hear the sirens wailing 
If only I can cross that line 
And leave the police trailing 
I see a red light at my rear 
Now i'm sweatin' cold steel fear 
Gotta make it home to the arms of my sweet baby. 

I'm tired of all this running 
Hiding from the light 
I want to walk out in the sun 

I'll soon be home I can see the clay 
I'll soon be in Atlanta 
If only I can hold that line 
I can live just how I want to 
I see the state line in my lights 
Engine take me through the night 
Gotta make it home to the arms of my sweet baby

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Glad When You're Gone:
	 
Now you say that you're leavin' 
Well it can't be too soon 
And you spend all of my money 
You knocked my guitar out of tune. 

Well you say you're sick and tired 
Tired of having me around 
And you call me cheatin' liar 
You drove my car into the ground. 

And i'll be glad when you're gone 
Yes i'll be glad when you're gone 
And when you walk out that door 
Darlin' please don't come back no more 

Now I wish i'd never known you 
And I wish we'd never met 
I was drunk you gave me whiskey 
When I was ill you called the vet. 

You say that it's over 
And you think you'll bring me down 
If you come back lookin' for me 
I'll be out there on the town

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Loved And Lost:
	 
Bad luck,is doggin' me around 
Bad luck,is doggin' me around 
And I can't change my ways 
Because I've been made second grade 

And it's better to have loved 
Loved and lost 
Yes it's better to have loved 
Loved and lost 
It's better to have loved and lost 
Than never to have loved at all. 

No love,has come to me and stayed 
No love,has come to me and stayed 
But I can't win this race 
But to try to run ain't no disgrace 

Losin' hands,have always been my deal 
Losin' hands,have always been my deal 
Never have drawn, drawn the ace 
But when trouble came 
I always looked it in the face

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Shanghai'd In Shanghai:

Standing on a corner in downtown L.A. 
Waiting for the man to come along 
She comes up to me and says 'too bad, too sad' 
You know that he's been dead and gone. 

L.A. lady, kinda shady 
She picked him up and took him home 
I woke up groggy my sight was smoggy 
And I knew that it had been blown 

Early in the morning sitting in a hotel 
Moscow's looking fine through the wine 
Spaced out I crashed out 
When the K.G.B. came on the line. 

It's a cold one, bein' sent down 
It's gotta be fifty below 
Mama here's a postcard to let you know 
I'm in a saltmine and looking for coal 

Shanghai'd in Shanghai 
Stood on in Tuscon 
Ripped off and kicked right out the bed 

Flyin' across the desert from Texas to Tuscon 
But we're headed for a southern star 
The captain says it's fine in Havana 
This dude behind me needs a cigar. 

He's a big one, he's got a big gun 
I guess we better go along 
Mister we've got a gig in Arizona 
Second billing to the Rolling Stones 

Shanghai'd in Shanghai 
Stood on in Tuscon 
Ripped off and kicked right out the bed 
Shanghai'd in Shanghai 
Laid low in 'Frisco 
Done in and left behind for dead

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Jet Lag:

I'm goin' back to New York city 
Times square sure will be shinin' bright 
I know it sure looks pretty 
But I don't go down every night. 

I'm gonna take in Memphis 
You know the one down in Tennessee 
And if you wanna boogie 
Now that's the place to be. 

Sittin' in a bar in Macon 
Drinkin' something called rebel yells 
When I thought I heard someone ringing 
I guess she's a southern bell. 

We just cut out of El Paso 
It just fries there in that desert sun 
And if you've ever been down there man 
Then you know why we run. 

I got jet lag 
And livin' out an overnight bag 
Time changes every day 
They do things a different way 
Back in the USA. 

Tryin' hard to make a phone call 
'long distance over seas' 
'yes ma'am I did say Scotland' 
'could you spell that again for me please' 

Went out west to Colorado 
You know that it just blew my mind 
I'd love to go back there next trip 
I sure hope we get some time. 

Driving down a Detroit freeway 
Just lookin' at those concrete walls 
Hey but it's a good town to rock'n'roll in 
'what do you mean the police closed the god damned hall?' 

Flyin' home tomorrow 
To be there's gonna be just great 
And after some time with my lady 
I'm gonna be back to rock'n'roll in the States

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Light My Way:	 
	 
Locked in a shadow 
Praying for release 
You found my prison 
Your love was the key 
So come on, light myday 
And come on, light my way 

Lonely's just a word now 
Something from my past 
Horizon's look brighter 
Loving you will last 
So come on, light my day 
And come on, light my way 

The world's now my oyster 
Had me marked 'reject' 
You changed the story 
Gave me back respect 
So come on, light my day 
And come on, light my way

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Sunshine:
	 
Sunshine, every single day 
Helps to light my way 
And darlin', right before my eyes 
It don't come as no surprise 
That it's easy 
Easy lovin' you 

And baby, 'til you came along 
There was always something wrong 
Around me 
There was emptiness of course 
But it's alright 
And it's easy 
Easy lovin' you 

And sunshine,having you around 
You're the light I never found 
And darlin', every minute you're away 
But it's brighter 
And it's easy 
Easy lovin' you

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Shapes Of Things:
(P.Samwell-Smith, K.Relf, Jim Mccarty)
	 
Shapes of things before my eyes 
Just teach me to despise 
Will time make men more wise? 

Here within my lonely frame 
My eyes just hurt my brain 
But will it seem the same? 

Come tomorrow, will I be older? 
Come tomorrow, may be a soldier 
Come tomorrow, may I be bolder than today? 

Now the trees are almost green 
But will they still be seen 
When time and tide have been? 

Oh, into your passing hands 
Please don't destroy these lands 
Don't make them desert sands

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