The Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress

Il testo e il video della canzone Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress del gruppo The Hollies.

“Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” è la traccia numero 7 di “Distant Light”, tredicesimo album del gruppo The Hollies. Uscito nel 1971, questa canzone è il primo singolo estratto dall’album. Gli Hollies sono un gruppo musicale inglese fondato agli inizi degli anni ‘60. Con un repertorio costituito prevalentemente da canzoni di musica beat e pop rock hanno ottenuto un notevole successo commerciale specialmente fino agli anni ‘70. Il gruppo è stato fondato da Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks e Graham Nash. Successivamente Nash, in seguito a disaccordi sulla linea musicale che il complesso intendeva seguire, è emigrato negli Stati Uniti, iniziando una brillante carriera solista.

Testo
Saturday night I was down town
Working for the F.B.I.
Sitting in a nest of bad men
Whiskey bottles piling high
Boot legging boozer on the west side
Full of people who are doing wrong
Just about to call up the D.A. man
When I heard this woman singing a song.

A pair of forty fives made me open my eyes
My temperature started to rise
She was a long cool woman in a black dress
Just a five nine
Beautiful
Tall
With just one look I was a bad mess
Cause that long cool woman had it all.

Saw her heading to the table
Well a tall walking big black cat
When Charlie said “I hope that you’re able
Boy”
Well
I’m telling you she knows where it’s at
Well suddenly we heard a siren
And every body started to run
A jumping out of doors and tables
Well I heard somebody shooting a gun.

Well the D.A. was pumping my left hand
And a she a holding my right
And I told her don’t get scared
Cause you’re gonna be spared
I gotta be forgiven
If I want to spend my living with
A long cool woman in a black dress
Just a five nine
Beautiful
Tall
With just one look I was a bad mess
’Cause that long cool woman had it all
Had it all
Had it all
Had it all

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