"Soldier of Fortune", gravada em 1974, é uma música atípica do Deep Purple, já que era raro Richie Blackmore tocar violão e o Jon Lord tocar mellotron. Outro fato inusitado é que, até então, foi a canção mais romântica criada pela banda. A interpretação de David Coverdale, provavelmente o autor da letra, já que Blackmore não é letrista(a música é assinada pelos dois), é comovente. Coverdale exibe uma sensibilidade de nos fazer arrepiar, cantando com a alma! Nem parece o famoso, super produzido, vocalista do White Snake. O Coverdale, do Deep Purple, tinha um tipo másculo, simples, bem diferente da figura canastrona do Coverdale do White Snake, que mais parece uma mulher masculinizada(suas fãs vão querer me matar-rs).
A letra é muito bonita. E sempre teve a ver comigo. E, mais uma vez, quase deixei de ser um Soldado da Fortuna. Não tem jeito mesmo, eu sempre serei um Soldado da Fortuna.
I have often told you stories
About the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand
And sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would surely stay
But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here
Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
I can hear the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier fortune(David Coverdale)
About the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand
And sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would surely stay
But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here
Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
I can hear the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier fortune(David Coverdale)

