Альтернативные версии песен Black Sabbath⁠⁠

Black Sabbath

У неё был третий куплет. Успели исполнить её в таком виде на нескольких ранних концертах.

И ещё у неё была эпичная прелюдия, которую, к сожалению, Айомми перестал играть. В хорошем качестве её можно услышать разве что на записи в концерте в L'Olympia Bruno Coquatrix в Париже от 20 декабря 1970 года.

Walpurgis

Оригинальный текст, отклонённный цензурой. Позже Гизер накидал новые слова, превратив её в War Pigs

Witches gather at black masses

Bodies burning in red ashes

On the hill the church in ruin

Is the scene of evil doings

It's a place for all bad sinners

Watch them eating dead rats' innards

I guess it's the same wherever you may go

Oh, Lord, yeah

Carry banners which denounce the Lord

See me rocking in my grave

See them anoint my head with dead rat's blood

See them stick the stake through me, oh

Don't hold me back 'cause I've just gotta go

They've got a hold of my soul now

Lords got my brain instinct with blood obscene

Look in my eyes I'm there enough, yeah

On the scene, a priest appears

Sinners falling at his knees

Satan sends out funeral pyre

Casts the priest into the fire

It's the place for all bad sinners

Watch them eating dead rats' innards

I guess it's the same wherever you may go

Oh, Lord, yeah

Прыгнем на пару десятилетий вперёд и от Оззи к Дио, пока не забыл.

Letters From Earth

Неиспользованная демка с другими словами и расширенной аранжировкой.

i can see the world the answer lies below

in time it starts without a place to go

will you always see that my memory goes on

you know the way that dreamers disappear

i send you freedom tell me what it's worth

i send you letters from earth

i'm writing today in the usual way the tears in my eyes

the pain that i see is a torture to me it's breaking me down

seems the more that they learn the more that they burn it's a fire gone cold

there's a door made of gold and he's evil they told but oh how he shines

i send confusion tell me what it's worth

i'm sending you letters from earth

letters from earth

and believe it or not the pictures don't lie

like the skies they will clear and the stories are here goodbye paradise

where the colours are bright they could shout at the night and turn it around

now the round is a square and the ground is the air there's no one to be found

i send you madness tell me what it's worth

i'll send you letters from earth

letters from earth

i see through the masquerade the faces of another crying clown

we laugh at the big parade tell me once again [bad word] on it's another game bang bang and they say it's just pretend

i know that it's not the same play on but it's really called the end

well i'm writing today in my usual way with the tears in my eyes

and all the pain that i feel is a torture that's real it's broken me down

i've been losing control feel i had known my soul remember me well

it's that last that you'll hear but i'll always be near and the [bad word] that i'll tell

i'll send you freedom tell me what it's worth

i'll send your freedom i'll send you letters from earth

letters from earth

there's a door made of gold and he's evil they told

seems the more that they learn more the that they burn

letters from earth

Из релизнутых версий этой песни тоже была одна особенная, обычно её пихали на обратную сторону диска

It's a cold world

And I'm in the middle

Caught in the in-between

I don't belong here

So I'm writing to you

They never understand

So I'm sending you some

Letters from earth, yeah

It's a new world

And now I'm a stranger

Stranger than you know

I don't belong here

And I'm writing to you

With blood on my hands

What if I send you madness?

What if I send you pain

And letters from earth?

Oh all right

I see through the masquerade

The secret faces that lie behind the smile

They can make the water taste just like the wine

Come on it's another game

And we gotta play on

They say it's just pretend

But did you ever ask them why

The game is called the end?

I don't want your money man

I just want a part of you

I can hear your voice again

It seems to belong in my brain

I don't want your pity no

I just want the heart out of you

Обратно в 70-е.

Iron Man

Берлин, 26 июня 1970. Возможно, Оззи просто забыл слова, но, вроде как, они подтверждали, что вначале у песни был чутка другой текст.

Is he alive or dead?

Has he thoughts within his head?

Can he walk at all?

If he moves will he fall?

If he runs from you

Why don't you come running too?

Iron man I know

Why do you go as slow?

Wont you run away

Iron Man is here to stay

We are losing there

Iron man will soon be here

Nobody wants you

He just stares at the world

Planning his vengeance

What he will soon unfurl

If he would I know

why should you see iron man?

When I run from him

Iron man please spare them

Nobody wants you

He just stares at the world

Planning his vengeance

What he will soon unfurl

Can he walk and talk?

If he moves will he fall?

Has he lost the way?

Iron man is here to stay.

Paranoid

Просто упоротая отсебятина Оззи во время одной из ранних репетиций, когда слов он ещё не знал, но мелодию надо было нарабатывать.

People say my mind's all filled with things that you can't see me now

Why are you on my mind all day long I can't think straight no more

Ev'ryone is say'n I'm mad because you're the only girl I've ever had

I love you but you don't want to know me but I think you're great and I wanna see

I wanna see you

Smiling to my face!

Whoa yeah!

You and me are through I know but you're on my mind all day long

Guessin' me and you are going crazy because I can't see you

All I've said inside right now, I can't think to think and I can't go by

Everyone is saying to me "forget that girl don't misery"

I've just one more thing to say before my mind's all set and I want to stay

I'm of things and you don't know what you're doing to my mind, you're on inside

Children of the grave

Аналогичная история.

Save me

Save me

Save me

Save me

Save me

Save me

I want you to understand

What you gotta do with me

People say they don't wanna know

What you're gonna do with me

Well I know that you just gotta go

To the hall of misery

Please don't start playing with my soul

Let my soul go free

Yeah!

Now I sit here on my own looking in the sky at night

Then I see a silver star come down and take me for a ride

Then I look into your face, what do I seek for redemption

Then you know your children too will go there with redemption

Save me

Save me

Save me

Save me

And I know what's going on

You people don't really know

When I fall in to your place

What am I to do?

If you go on with your load

Don't you ever say

Black Sabbath man with your hair so long

Didn't realise what he said

Yeah!

Sweet Leaf

Тож страдание хренью в студии.

I got the girl. You wanted too

I want you baby. To be my wife.

To love and cherish. For the rest of my life.

You want me too. To be your man.

So I'm trying Baby. The best way I can.

Alright Now!

I love you baby. Any way.

So come on baby. Lets slip away.

Oh you don't know. I love you so.

So come on baby. come on lets go.

Ohhh Yeah!

I've got you baby. You know it.

I've got you baby. Ya you know it.

And I want you for a babe. Oh you don't know. I love you so.

Oh please now baby. I want to know.

Oh yeah!

Oh yeah!

Yeah yeah yeah ya ya. Ohh baby yeah. You know I got it.

Ohhh baby yeah oh yeah yeah. Ohhh yaaaa ya yaaa.

Planet Caravan

The sky was clear that night

We were alone

And so much in love

A tree stood at the bottom

Of that lonely field

And it was lovely

The moon like a big red bun

Stood in the sky

And I wondered why

We sat upon the grass

It was so cold

But the heat of my mind

Was enought to keep us warm

And you caressed my body

Oh that was lovely

I'll never forget that night

Oh my darling

My darling

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Tonny Iommy & Lita Ford - Blues Jam Untitled (1984)