Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress - The Hollies


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Please note that the intro is simplified from the original version so that anyone can 
play it. This is solely my interpretation of the song


INTRO:

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CHORDS:

             
Saturday night

              
 I was downtow

             
n working for 

        
the FBI
              
Sittin' in a n

              
est of bad men

             
 whiskey bottl

               
es piling high

              
Bootlegging bo

              
ozer on the we

              
st side full o

             
f people who a

               
re doing wrong
              
Just about to 

              
call up the DA

             
 man when I he

              
ard this woman

             
 sing a song

             
A pair of 45's

              
 made me open 

        
my eyes my tem

perature start

ed to rise
             
She was a long

              
 cool woman in

             
 a black dress

              
 just-a 5'9, b

              
eautiful, tall
             
With just one 

              
look I was a b

             
ad mess 'cause

            
 that long coo

l woman had it

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I saw her head

              
ing to the tab

             
le well a tall

             
 walking big b

               
lack cat when
              
Charlie said I

              
 hope that you

              
're able boy '

             
cause I'm tell

            
ing you she kn

ows
              
where it's at

 

              
Then suddenly 

              
we heard the s

             
irens and ever

             
ybody started 

        
to run
              
A-jumping out 

              
of doors and t

             
ables when I h

              
eard somebody 

               
shootin' a gun

              
Well the DA wa

              
s pumping my l

              
eft hand and a

            
-she was a-hol

                
ding my right
              
Well I told he

              
r don't get sc

            
ared 'cause yo

u're gonna be 

spared


And I've gotta

 be forgivin' 

if I wanna spe

nd my living w

ith a long coo

l
              
woman in a bla

             
ck dress just 

             
a 5'9 beautifu

       
l tall
             
Yeah, with jus

              
t one look I w

         
as a bad mess 

'cause that lo

ng cool woman 

had it
 
all

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Had it all
Had it all

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