Songwriter: Ritchie Blackmore Ian Gillan Roger Glover Jon Lord Ian Paice
Producer: Deep Purple
[Verse 1]
There once was a woman
A strange kind of woman
The kind that gets written down in history
Her name was Nancy
Her face was nothing fancy
She left a trail of happiness and misery
I loved her
Everybody loved her
She loved everyone and gave them good return
I tried to take her
I even tried to break her
She said, "I ain't for taking, won't you ever learn?"
[Chorus]
I want you, I need you, I got to be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you, I need you, I got to be near you
Ooh, I got a strange kind of woman
[Verse 2]
She looked like a raver
But I could never please her
On Wednesday mornings boy, you can't go far
I couldn't get her
But things got better, she said
"Saturday nights from now on baby, you're my star"
I want you, I need you, I got to be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you, I need you, I got to be near you
Ooh, I got a strange kind of woman
Ooh my soul, I love you
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
She finally said she loved me
I wed her in a hurry
No more callers and I glowed with pride
I'm dreaming
I feel like screaming
I won my woman just before she died
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Who do you think you are?
Superstar
Who do you think you are?
Superstar
Superstar
Who do we think we are?
Oh my soul, I love you baby
There once was a woman
A strange kind of woman
The kind that gets written down in history
Her name was Nancy
Her face was nothing fancy
She left a trail of happiness and misery
I loved her
Everybody loved her
She loved everyone and gave them good return
I tried to take her
I even tried to break her
She said, "I ain't for taking, won't you ever learn?"
[Chorus]
I want you, I need you, I got to be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you, I need you, I got to be near you
Ooh, I got a strange kind of woman
[Verse 2]
She looked like a raver
But I could never please her
On Wednesday mornings boy, you can't go far
I couldn't get her
But things got better, she said
"Saturday nights from now on baby, you're my star"
I want you, I need you, I got to be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you, I need you, I got to be near you
Ooh, I got a strange kind of woman
Ooh my soul, I love you
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
She finally said she loved me
I wed her in a hurry
No more callers and I glowed with pride
I'm dreaming
I feel like screaming
I won my woman just before she died
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Who do you think you are?
Superstar
Who do you think you are?
Superstar
Superstar
Who do we think we are?
Oh my soul, I love you baby
Fireball
- Anyone’s Daughter
- Backwards Piano (Reversed piano solo at the end of ”No One Came”)
- The Noise Abatement Society Tapes (Midnight in Moscow/Robin Hood/William Tell)
- No One Came (Remix ’96)
- Freedom
- Slow Train
- I’m Alone
- Fireball (Take 1: instrumental)
- Strange Kind of Woman
- No One Came
- Fools
- The Mule
- Demon’s Eye (Remix ’96)
- No No No
- Fireball
- Strange Kind of Woman (Remix ’96)
- Hot Platters (1971)
- Fireball (1971)
- Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple (1980)
- Total Abandon: Australia ’99 (1999)
- Perfect Strangers - Live (2013)
- Smoke on the Water
- Soldier of Fortune
- Child in Time
- Perfect Strangers
- Highway Star
- Hush
- Burn
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Strange Kind of Woman
- All I Got Is You
- Knocking at Your Back Door
- Space Truckin’
- Black Night
- Lazy
- Speed King
- Stormbringer
- Fireball
- The Surprising
- Maybe I’m a Leo
- Pictures of Home
- Mistreated
- Into the Fire (1970 live)
- Second Movement: Andante
- Long Time Gone