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.

Link: [The Hollies]

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

Link: [The Ozark Mountain Daredevils]

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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ATF: Higher Aspirations

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.

Link: [The Ozark Mountain Daredevils]

If You Wanna Get To Heaven

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

I never read it in a book

I never saw it on a show

But I heard it in the alley

On a weird radio

If you want a drink of water

You got to get it from a well

If you want to get to Heaven

You got to raise a little Hell

I never felt it in my feet

I never felt it in my soul

But I heard it the alley

Now it’s in my rock and roll

If you want to know a secret

You got to promise not to tell

If you want to get to Heaven

You got to raise a little Hell

I never thought it’d be so easy

I never thought it’d be so fun

But I heard it the alley

Now I got it on the run

If you want to see an angel

You got to find it where she fell

If you want to get to Heaven

You got to raise a little Hell

If you wanna get to Heaven

If you wanna get to Heaven

If you wanna get to Heaven

If you wanna get to Heaven

Link: [Led Zeppelin]

Stairway To Heaven

Led Zeppelin

There’s a lady

Who’s sure

All that glitters is gold

And she’s buying

The stairway

To Heaven

When she gets there

She knows

If the stores are all closed

With a word she can get

What she came for

Oooh oooh

And she’s buying

The stairway

To Heaven

There’s a sign on the wall

But she wants to be sure

‘Cause you know sometimes words

Have two meanings

In a tree by the brook

There’s a songbird who sings

Sometimes all of our thoughts

Are misgiven

Oooh

It makes me wonder

Oooh

It makes me wonder

There’s a feeling I get

When I look to the west

And my spirit is cryin’

For leavin’

In my thoughts I have seen

Rings of smoke through the trees

And the voices of those

Who stand lookin’

Oooh

It makes me wonder

Oooh

It really makes me wonder

And it’s whispered that soon

If we all call the tune

Then the piper will lead us

To reason

And a new day will dawn

For those who stand long

And the forests will echo

With laughter

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow

Don’t be alarmed now

It’s just a spring clean

For the May queen

Yes there are two paths you can go by

But in the long run

There’s still time to change

The road you’re on

And it makes me wonder

Aaah ah

Your head is hummin’

And it won’t go

In case you don’t know

The piper’s callin’ you to join him

Dear lady can you hear the wind blow

And did you know

Your stairway lies

On the whisperin’ wind

And as we wind on down the road

Our shadows taller than our soul

There walks a lady we all know

Who shines white light and wants to show

How everything still turns to gold

And if you listen very hard

The tune will come to you at last

When all are one and one is all yeah

To be a rock

And not to roll

And she’s buying

The stairway

To Heaven

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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TWO FOR TUESDAY

Link: [The Ozark Mountain Daredevils]

Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world. For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously ferverent rants of rebellion. Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

Link: [On YouTube]

If You Wanna Get To Heaven

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

I never read it in a book

I never saw it on a show

But I heard it in the alley

On a weird radio

If you want a drink of water

You got to get it from a well

If you want to get to Heaven

You got to raise a little Hell

I never felt it in my feet

I never felt it in my soul

But I heard it the alley

Now it’s in my rock and roll

If you want to know a secret

You got to promise not to tell

I you want to get to Heaven

You got to raise a little Hell

I never thought it’d be so easy

I never thought it’d be so fun

But I heard it the alley

Not I got it on the run

If you want to see an angel

You got to find it where she fell

If you want to get to Heaven

You got raise a little Hell

If you wanna get to Heaven

If you wanna get to Heaven

If you wanna get to Heaven

If you wanna get to Heaven

Link: [On YouTube]

Jackie Blue

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Ooh hoo

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 freeform 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

Ooh hoo

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 playing music

But you never sing

Ooh hoo

Jackie Blue

Makin’ wishes

That never come true

Goin’ places

Where you’ve never been

Ooh Jackie

You’re goin’ again

Ooh hoo

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: [The Ozark Mountain Daredevils Lyrics Index]

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