"Mandrake Root" is a song by Deep Purple that is featured on their debut album Shades of Deep Purple. The title is in reference to the hallucinogenic mandrake plant, but is also the name of a pre-Purple band that Blackmore was trying to form in Germany when he got the call from Deep Purple's original management. Next to "Hush" and "Wring That Neck," "Mandrake Root" is one of the more lasting songs by the band from the Mark I era.
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“Go, and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
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Or who cleft the devil’s foot,
Teach me to her mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy’s stinging,
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—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)