#4112

Release: April 17, 1972

Lyrics:

… Saturday night I was downtown

Working for the FBI

Sitting in a nest of bad men

Whiskey bottles piling high

… Bootlegging 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 5'9" beautiful 'n' tall

Just one look I was a bad mess

'Cause that long cool woman had it all

… I saw her heading to the table

Well, a tall walking big black cat

Charlie said, I hope that you're able, boy

'Cause I'm telling you she knows where it's at

… Well, suddenly we hear the sirens

And everybody started to run

Jumping under doors and tables

Well, I heard somebody shooting a gun

… Well, the D.A. was pumping my left hand

She was holding my right

Well, I told her, don't get scared

'Cause you're gonna be spared

I've gotta be forgiven if I wanna spend my living

… With a long cool woman in a black dress

Just a 5'9" beautiful 'n' tall

Well 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

Had it all, had it all, had it all (she had it all)

Songwriter:

Alan Clarke / Roger Frederick Cook / Roger John Reginald Greenaway

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