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If You Want Blood You've Got It is the first live album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, and their only live album with Bon Scott as lead vocalist. It was originally released in the UK and Europe on 13 October 1978, in the US on 21 November 1978, and in Australia on 27 November 1978. The album was re-released in 1994 on Atco Records and in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.


In his 1994 Bon Scott memoir Highway to Hell, author Clinton Walker observes, "Live albums, which tended to be double or triple sets in which songs short in their studio versions were stretched out into extended tedium, were for some reason popular in the seventies. If You Want Blood reversed this tradition...it boasted a blunt ten tracks and, allowing nothing extraneous, got straight to the point, that being raging AC/DC rock and roll."



Lyrics



It's criminal

There ought to be a law

Criminal

There ought to be a whole lot more

You get nothin' for nothin'

Tell me who can you trust

We got what you want

And you got the lust

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

Blood on the streets

Blood on the rocks

Blood in the gutter

Every last drop

You want blood

You got it

Yes you have


It's animal

Livin' in the human zoo

Animal

The shit that they toss to you

Feelin' like a christian

Locked in a cage

Thrown to the lions

On the second page

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

Blood on the street

Blood on the rocks

Blood in the gutter

Every last drop

You want blood

You got it

O positive


Blood on the rocks

Blood on the streets

Blood in the sky

Blood on the sheets

If you want blood

You got it


I want you to bleed for me


If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it

If you want blood, you got it



Songwriters: Angus McKinnon Young / Malcolm Mitchell Young / Ronald Belford Scott

If You Want Blood You Got It lyrics © BMG Rights Management




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