[Live Performance @ "A Highway Of Hits Tour" placed on Docken Nordhavn - Copenhagen, DK - September 18th, 2019].
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 da man
When I heard this woman sing a song
A pair of 45s 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, tall
With just one look I was a bed mess
'Cause that long cool woman had it all
I saw her heading to the table
Like a tall walking big black cat
When charlie said I hope that your're able boy
'Cause I'm telling you she knows where it's at
Then suddenly we heard the sirens
And everybody started to run
A-jumping out of doors and tables
When I heard somebody shooting a gun
Well the da was pumping my left hand
And a-she was a-holding my right
Well I told her don't get scared
'Cause your're gonna be spared
I've gotta be forgiving if I wanna spend my living
With a long cool woman in a black dress
Just a 5'9 beautiful tall
Yeah, with just on look I was a bed mess
'Cause that long cool woman had it all
Had it all, had it all, had it all, had it all, had it all
Ooh, had it all
Oh, yeah, all
Yeah, all.
Songwriter(s): Clarke, Allan/Clarke, Harold/Cook, Roger/Greenaway, Roger.
Drummer Bobby Elliott of The Hollies finds the pocket for "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" during the show's final encore in front of an excited Copenhagen crowd. Typically playing in the U.K., Germany, New Zealand, and Australia, The Hollies make a rare stop at the music venue Docken in Copenhagen some 16 years after playing three shows in Denmark in 2003.
Tony Hicks – guitar, vocals
Bobby Elliott – drums
Peter Howarth – vocals, acoustic guitar
Ian Parker – keyboard, vocals
Steve Lauri – guitar, vocals
Ray Stiles – bass guitar, vocals
The Hollies recorded live in concert at Docken, a music venue located on the Öresund in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 18, 2019, the second last show of A Highway of Hits Tour.
