Publicación: 8 de octubre de 1971 (U.K), Abril de 1972 (U.S.A).
Productor: Ron Richards, The Hollies.
Ingeniero: John Punter
Asistentes de ingeniero: Alan Harris, Alex Harding, Simaen Skolfield.
Grabación: Verano de 1971.
Estudios: AIR Studios, Londres.
Discográfica U.K: Parlophone.
N° de catalogo: PAS 10005.
Discográfica U.S.A: Epic Records.
N° de catalogo: KE 30958.
Diseño de portada: Hipgnosis.
Ilustración: Elgie, Hipgnosis.
Tracklist:
Lado 1.
01 What A Life I've Led.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch) 3:58
02 Look What We've Got.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch) 4:07
03 Hold On.
(Allan Clarke) 4:07
04 Pull Down The Blind.
(Terry Sylvester) 3:30
05 To Do With Love.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch) 3:29
06 Promised Land.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch) 4:20
Lado 2.
07 Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.
(Allan Clarke, Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway) 3:19
08 You Know The Score.
(Terry Sylvester, Allan Clarke) 5:37
09 Cable Car.
(Terry Sylvester) 4:25
10 A Little Thing Like Love.
(Allan Clarke, Tony Macaulay) 3:19
11 Long Dark Road.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch) 4:16
Tiempo total: 44:14 minutos.
Vinyl Long Play - Edición U.S.A:
Discográfica: Epic Records.
N° de catalogo: KE 30958.
Sticker.
Compact Disc - Edición Rusia:
Discográfica: ADA Sound.
N° de catalogo: ADASD 0537-3.
Booklet.
The Hollies:
Allan Clarke: Voz, guitarra.
Tony Hicks: Guitarra, voz.
Terry Sylvester: Guitarra, voz.
Bernie Calvert: Bajo.
Bobby Elliott: Batería.
Otros músicos:
John Scott: Arreglos, conducción.
Letras:
What A Life I've Led.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch)
There never was a man so doggone mean
I wore only black and my eyes were green
And I can tell you now that I'm very old
I'd kill any man for a piece of gold.
Oh what a life I've led
I've been a real bad man and I oughta be dead
Oh what a life I've led
I've been real mean man, full of cheating and lying
Left a lot of men dead and a lot of girls crying
Yes I did.
I rode into Dodge on a sunny day
I went there to steal all the railmen's pay
And when I left town all the streets ran red
I had ten grand in gold, and three guards lay dead.
Oh what a life I've led
I've been a real bad man and I oughta be dead
Oh what a life I've led
I've been real mean man, full of cheating and lying
Left a lot of men dead and a lot of girls crying
Yes I did.
I was a bad man with a heart made of stone
If you were a wise man, you would've left me alone.
I've lived all my life, such a lonely one
Just me and my horse and a fine six-gun
I've lived and I've loved and I knew great pain
But I know now I'd do it over again Singing.
Oh what a life I've led
I've been a real bad man and I oughta be dead
Oh what a life I've led
I've been real mean man, full of cheating and lying
Left a lot of men dead and a lot of girls crying
Yes I did.
Oh what a life I've led
I've been a real bad man and I oughta be dead
Oh what a life I've led
I've been real mean man, full of cheating and lying
Left a lot of men dead and a lot of girls crying
Yes I did.
Look What We've Got.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch)
Sipping at the wine
I'm drinking all the time
I'm drinking kinda slow
And I'm hoping it won't go
See when I get dry
I just sit and cry over my baby
Seems that in the past
It was gonna last
Somewhere it went wrong
All the good times gone
But I don't know why
So I sit and cry over my baby.
Well, now, yeah I thought that, I thought that
If we could take it, we'd love each other so much
We'd be sure to make it
But oh baby oh my baby
Look what we've got
There's nothing at all.
Thinking of the bad times
Stretched out on my bed
Images of you, girl
Running through my head
Wish that I could die
So I lay and cry over my baby.
Sipping at the wine
I'm drinking all the time
I'm drinking kinda slow
And I'm hoping it won't go
See when I get dry
I just sit and cry over my baby
Seems that in the past
It was gonna last
Somewhere it went wrong
All the good times gone
But I don't know why
So I sit and cry over my baby.
Well, now, yeah I thought that, I thought that
If we could take it, we'd love each other so much
We'd be sure to make it
But oh baby oh my baby
Look what we've got
There's nothing at all.
Look what we've got
There's nothing at all.
Hold On.
(Allan Clarke)
Standing on a corner
Nothing on my mind
When walked past a woman
She looked my kind.
I said a hey there woman
What you got to do
She took one look at me and said baby
I'd like to be with you.
Hold on.
Wait a minute woman
I ain't the kind to phase
And I ain't that kind of woman, baby
So she says.
She led me to a dwellin'
Just along the street
The best part of town baby
We gotta be discreet.
Hold on (Hold on).
Got to the apartment
Number six sixteen
My, what a place it was
Best I've ever seen.
She headed to the bedroom
Came upon the door
Wait a minute, darling
While I slip into something cool.
I was getting excited
One thing on mind
When she rushed out of the bedroom
Said You'd better hide.
She slowed me my movements
He caught me by the door
What was left on me, baby
Was landing on the floor.
Hold On.
Pull Down The Blind.
(Terry Sylvester)
Sitting here alone
Drinking from an empty can of beer
Wishing you were here.
Think I hear the bell
Must be my imagination
Hoping you'll appear.
Are you feeling well
Would you write a letter just to say
Had a lovely day.
I never realized
How lonely I would be without you
I guess I'll pull down the blind
I've finished all the wine
I guess I'll pull down the blind
I feel I'm feeling fine.
Had a busy day Brought in the milk
And saw the folks next door
Who could ask for more.
Tomorrow leaves today
I look at a photograph of you and me
How's the family
I guess I'll pull down the blind
I've finished all the wine
I guess I'll pull down the blind
I feel I'm feeling fine.
To Do With Love.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch)
Next time I meet a girl, I won't ask her her name
Or where she's been, or where she came from
The last time I found love it only brought me pain
The problems almost took me over.
I was washing up for mother, I was lighting pipes for papa
And fetching water
And that's got nothing at all, that's got nothing at all
To do with love.
Next time I meet a girl
I won't tell her my name
Or where I've been
Or where I came from.
I'll take a hold of her
And love her just the same
No need to mention past acquaintances.
I just want someone to love me
And someone to like the presents
That I bought her
'Cause that's got something to do
Yes, that's got something to do
To do with love.
Each girl I meet comes up wronger
And I can't take it all much longer
No, I can't no.
I'll take a hold of her
And love her just the same
No need to mention past acquaintances.
I just want someone to love me
And someone to like the presents
That I bought her
'Cause that's got something to do
Yes, that's got something to do
To do with love.
Each girl I meet comes up wronger
And I can't take it all much longer
No, I can't no.
Promised Land.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch)
Where where is the promised land
Where where is the promised land
It can't be found in Viet Nam
It can't be where the eagle has landed
If we want peace for every man
We've gotta make the world demand it.
Now I see the flag is flying
We've got to help them stop the dying
We must bring back the soldier boys
We mustn't let them die for nothing
War's a better game when played with toys
Let's change the game and let's start loving.
Soldiers never fight alone
There's just as much fighting going on at home
Protests, violence, marches
It's all going on at home
Bring them all back home.
Soldiers never fight alone
There's just as much fighting going on at home
Protests, violence, marches
It's all going on at home
Bring them all back home.
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.
(Allan Clarke, Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway)
Saturday night I was downtown
Working for the FBI
Sittin' in a nest of bad men
Whiskey bottles piling high.
Bootlegging boozer on my 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 Forty-Fives made me open my knife
My temperature started to rise
She was a long cool woman in a black dress
With a 5'9" beautiful tall
With just one look I was a bad mess
'Cause that long cool woman had it all, yeah.
Woo!
I saw her head out to the table
With a tall walking big black cat
And Charlie said "I hope that you're able, boy
Hon', I'm telling you she knows where it's at"
Well, suddenly we heard the sirens
And everybody started to run
A-jumping out of doors and tables
When I heard somebody shootin' 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 you'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
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
Ooh, had it all
Ha, she had it all, yeah.
You Know The Score.
(Terry Sylvester, Allan Clarke)
I look to the east and I look to the west
Trying to find a place where there's rest
You know where I go, you know it's the same show
People turning their backs, not wanting to know
Look there son, you'll find hungry mouths
Saying please feed me well I'm only a child
All around you'll find fallow ground
But you can't plow a field with a hundred missiles.
You know the score
You know it's war
Death and destruction
We gotta change it now
Lord only knows how
To turn it into more.
Where have all the rainbows gone
Where where where
My, oh God, says he's seen better days
Where, where, where.
Speak to me, Lord Speak to me, Lord
Come on down with Your fiery sword
Rid this place of all its hate
Show Your face before it's too late.
You know the score
You know it's war
Death and destruction
Death and destruction.
Death and destruction
We gotta change it now
Lord only knows how.
Cable Car.
(Terry Sylvester)
Cable car, flying high
Passing stars or wondering why
Did she go or did she die
I don't know.
Mountainside, not so green
Snow is more than ever seen
Will she come back in a dream
I don't know.
Thoughts of her reminding me
Of a time I couldn't see
Anything but you and me together.
Colored cloud, on you go
To a land you may not know
If you see her
Tell her I'm so alone.
Colored cloud, on you go
To a land you may not know
If you see her
Tell her I'm so alone.
A Little Thing Like Love.
(Allan Clarke, Tony Macaulay)
Took you from Dakota from the Black Hills to the plains
I brought you up a lady and the right way to behave
Turned my pockets inside-out and not a dime was saved
And now you're trying to decide whether to go or stay.
Don't let a little thing like love keep on bringing you down, my babe
Or ever change the plans you made
Don't let a little thing like tears keep on turning you 'round, my babe
You're old enough to change your ways
And if you're feeling all run down, you look for the brighter lights uptown
Don't let a little thing like me ever stand in your way.
Took you on a fast train across the Rio Grande
A Mexicano wedding with a Tijuana band
You blew my whole life savings and all the gold I'd panned
So if you're trying to find a way to say your sweet goodbyes.
Don't let a little thing like love keep on bringing you down, my babe
Or ever change the plans you made
Don't let a little thing like tears keep on turning you 'round, my babe
You're old enough to change your ways
And if you're feeling all run down, you look for the brighter lights uptown
Don't let a little thing like me ever stand in your way.
You're old enough to change your ways
And if you're feeling all run down
You look for the right to light the town
Don't let a little thing like me
Ever stand in your way
Don't let a little thing like love.
Long Dark Road.
(Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch)
It's over, well over
In my mind and in my heart
It's over, well over
But then again, it didn't have a good start.
You'd tell me, try to sell me
It could have been all I asked
It's over, well over
It's there and flows away a distant past.
Now it's a long, dark road
Yes, a long, dark road
And you know I loved you
Yes, you know I loved you.
Now it's a long, dark road
Yes, a long, dark road
And you know I loved you
Yes, you know I loved you
It's over, well over
And we can't revive what's past
It's gone now, moved on now
But then again it didn't have a chance to last
No, no, no, a chance to last.
Now it's a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road)
Yes, a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road)
And you know I loved you
Yes, you know I loved you.
Now it's a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road)
Yes, a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road).
Now it's a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road)
Yes, a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road).
Now it's a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road) (Baby, I need you, I need you)
Yes, a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road).
Now it's a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road)
Yes, a long, dark road (It's a long, very long, road).
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Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress).
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