Long Cool Woman

To understand this, you have to understand my attitude towards clothes. If it takes me more than 60 seconds to get dressed, I'm not interested. Make up is a major chore, high heels were invented by Torquemada, and fleece anything is a comfy act of God. Oh like any woman, I can look at beautiful clothes or admire designs ... but wear them? Which whip and chair were you planning to use to make me shop? So it is with something approaching surprise, that I am having a severe attack of the trivial today. It must be the stress and strain of the recent unpleasantness known as a political campaign.

You can tell me that our soon to be First Lady is a brilliant woman, an accomplished attorney, a loving mother, a caring human being dedicated to her community and an expert in hospital management, but all I can see or hear is a hit song echo by The Hollies. From the way he still looks at her after more than a decade, I have a sneaking suspicion that our future President may have thought the same thing the first time he saw her:

Just a 5-9 beautiful tall
With just one look I was a bad mess
'Cause that long cool woman had it all

The song was written to mimic a film noir script in a song, so many of the lines don't apply to our newest first family, but that tag line is definitely Michelle Obama: That lady definitely has it all.






The Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress 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 singing a song

A pair of 45's 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 bad mess
'Cause that long cool woman had it all

I saw her heading to the table
Well a tall walking big black cat
When Charlie said I hope that you're able, boy
Well I'm telling you she knows where it's at

Well then suddenly we heard the sirens
And everybody started to run
Jumping under doors and tables
Well I heard somebody shooting a gun

Well the DA was pumping my left hand
And she was holding my right
Well I told her, "Don't get scared
'Cause you're gonna be spared"

Well I'm gonna be forgiven
If I wanna spend my living
With a long cool woman in a black dress
Just a 5-9 beautiful tall
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...