ATF: Black and Blue II

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [The Hollies]

Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress

The Hollies

Saturday night

I was downtown

Workin’ for my FBI

Sittin’ in a nest of bad men

Whiskey bottles

Pilin’ high

Bootleggin’ boozer

On the west side

Full of people

Who are doin’ wrong

Just about to call up the DA man

When I heard this woman singin’

A song

A pair of moneybags

Made me open my eyes

My temperature started

To rise

She was a long cool woman

In a black dress

Just a 5'9"

Beautiful

And tall

Just one look

I was a bad mess

'Cause that long cool woman

Had it all

I saw her headin’ to the table

Well a tall walkin’

Big black cat

My Charlie said

I hope that you're able boy

'Cause I'm tellin’ you

She knows where it's at

But suddenly

We hear the sirens

Everybody started to run

Jumpin’ under doors

And tables

Well

I heard somebody shootin’

A gun

Well

The DA was pumpin’ my left hand

While she was holdin’ my right

Well I told her

Don't get scared

'Cause you're gonna be spared

I'm gonna be forgiven

If I wanna spend my livin’

With a long cool woman

In a black dress

Just a 5'9"

Beautiful

And tall

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

Had it all

Had it all

Had it all

Had it all

Link: [The Ozark Mountain Daredevils]

Jackie Blue

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Oooh ooh ooh

Jackie Blue

Lives her life from

Inside of a room

Hides that smile

When she's wearin' a frown

Ooh Jackie

You're not so down

You like your life

In a free-form style

You'll take an inch

But you'd love a mile

There never seems

To be quite enough

Floatin’ around

To fill your lovin' cup

Oooh ooh ooh

Jackie Blue

What's a game girl

If you never lose

Ask a winner

And you'll probably find

Ooh Jackie

They've lost at sometime

Don't try to tell me

That you're not aware

Of what you're doin’

And that you don't care

You say it's easy

Just a natural thing

Like playin’ music

But you never sing

Oooh ooh ooh

Jackie Blue

Makin’ wishes

That never come true

Goin’ places

Where you've never been

Ooh Jackie

You're goin’ again

Oooh ooh ooh

Jackie Blue

Lives a dream

That can never come true

Makin’ love

Is like siftin' through sand

Ooh Jackie

It slips through your hand

Every day

In your indigo eyes

I watch the sun set

But I don't see it rise

Moonlight and stars

In your strawberry wine

You'd take the world

But you won't take the time

Oooh ooh ooh

Jackie Blue

Lives her life from

Inside of a room

Makes you think

That her life is a drag

Ooh Jackie

What fun you have had

Ooh Jackie

Ooh Jackie

Ooh Jackie

Ooh Jackie

Hey

Hey

Hey

Hey

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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