Overview
The Who – “Pinball Wizard”Single released 7 March 1969Album: Tommy (released, 23 May 1969)Songwriter: Peter TownshendProducer: Kit Lambert
Covers
Live performances of a single back in the day and nowadays:
The Who – Pinball Wizard (Tom Jones Show, 1969)
The Who – Pinball Wizard – Live In Hyde Park, London / 2015
Music video by The Who performing Pinball Wizard. (C) 2015 Yearhour Limited, exclusively licensed to Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd.
Song lyrics
Ever since I was a young boy
I’ve played the silver ball
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
But I ain’t seen nothing like him
In any amusement hall
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball!
He stands like a statue,
Becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers
Always playing clean
He plays by intuition,
The digit counters fall
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball!
He’s a pinball wizard
There has got to be a twist
A pinball wizard,
S’got such a supple wrist
How do you think he does it? I don’t know!
What makes him so good?
He ain’t got no distractions
Can’t hear those buzzers and bells
Don’t see lights a flashin’
Plays by sense of smell
Always gets a replay
Never seen him fall
That deaf dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
I thought I was
The Bally table king
But I just handed
My pin ball crown to him
Even on my favorite table
He can beat my best
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest
He’s got crazy flipper fingers
Never seen him fall
That deaf dumb and blind kind
Sure plays a mean pinball!
Songwriter
Pinball Wizard lyrics © Abkco Music Inc.
Additional informations about a song
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