Thursday, January 9, 2014

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.



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



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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6 comments:

  1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Adullamite!!! Nope, the lads were not bad at all.

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  2. Thanks for stopping by, my dear TWG!!! I am really glad you enjoyed them.

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  3. I had a long black dress on yesterday when my surprise visitors arrived. It's a bit tattered, torn and old...but it is so, so cool to wear in this hot weather,

    It's the latest, modern, new, up-to-date in season look!

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  4. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! I am quite sure that you look stunning in whatever you have on at the time, but it is so good of you to embrace such humility.

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