Hollies, Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress) (1972)
Key: :[F] (w: Allan Clarke, Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway)
INTRO: [*R1 x2] //
[F]
VERSE 1:
[F] Saturday night I was downtown
[G#] Working for the
[A#] F.B.-
[F]-I.
[F] Sitting in a nest of bad men
[G#] Whiskey bottles
[A#] piling
[F] high
VERSE 2:
[F] Bootlegging boozer on the West Side
Full of
[G#] people who are
[A#] doing
[F] wrong
[F] Just about to call up the D.A. man
When I
[G#] heard this woman
[A#] sing a
[F] song
PRE-CHORUS:
A
[A#] pair of 45's made me open my eyes
My
[C] temperature started to rise
CHORUS:
She was a
[A#] long cool woman in a black dress
Just-a
[G#] 5'9,
[A#] beautiful,
[F] tall
With
[A#] just one look I was a bad mess
'Cause that
[G#] long cool
[A#] woman had it
[F] all
GUITAR BREAK: [F]
VERSE 3:
[F] I saw her head up the table
With a
[G#] tall walking
[A#] big black
[F] cat
When
[F] Charlie said I hope that you're able boy
Well, I'm
[G#] telling you she
[A#] knows where it's
[F] at
VERSE 4:
Then
[F] suddenly we heard the sirens
And
[G#] everybody
[A#] started to
[F] run
A-
[F]-jumping out of doors and tables
When I
[G#] heard somebody
[A#] shooting a
[F] gun
VERSE 5:
Well, the
[F] D.A. was pumping my left hand
And a
[G#] she was a-
[A#]-holding my
[F] right
Well I
[F] told her don't get scared
'Cause you're
[G#] gonna be spared
I've
[A#] gotta be forgiving if I wanna spend my living
CHORUS:
With a
[A#] long cool woman in a black dress
Just a
[G#] 5'9,
[A#] beautiful
[F] tall
Yeah, with
[A#] just one look I was a bad mess
'Cause that
[G#] long cool
[A#] woman had it
[F] all
