"Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress"
(A. Clarke - R. Cook - R. Greenaway)

Intro [2X]:

v     v   v   v     v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
-------------------|-0-----0---------|-----------------|-----------------
-------------0---0-|-----0-----0-----|-----------------|-----------------
-------0-5-----4---|---2-----0-----0-|-----0-----0-----|-0-----0---0---0-
---0h2-------------|-------------2---|---2-----0-----2-|-----0-----------
-0-----------------|-----------------|-3-----2-----3---|---5-----3---2---
drum accents ^   ^

main riff [4X; bass enters midway through 2nd time]; basically played
wherever an E chord appears in the verses:

[guitar 1:]

v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
-----------------|----------------
-----------------|----------------
-----------------|----------------
-2-------------2-|---2------------
-2---4---5---4-2-|---2-4---5---4--
-0---0---0---0-0-|---0-0---0---0--

[guitar 2 (enters 3rd time):]

v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
------------------|----------------
--0---2---3---2-0-|---0-2---3---2--
0h1---2---4---2-1-|---1-2---4---2--
------------------|----------------
------------------|----------------
------------------|----------------

Verse 1:

EE Piano Chord 

Saturday night I was downtown
GG Piano Chord 
               AA Piano Chord 
   EE Piano Chord 

Working for the F.B.I.
(E)
Sitting in a nest of bad men
GG Piano Chord 
                AA Piano Chord 
      EE Piano Chord 

Whiskey bottles piling high
(E)
Bootlegging boozer on the West Side
GG Piano Chord 
             AA Piano Chord 
      EE Piano Chord 

Full of people who are doing wrong
(E)
Just about to call up the D.A. man
GG Piano Chord 
                AA Piano Chord 
      EE Piano Chord 

When I heard this woman sing a song

AA Piano Chord 

A pair of 45s made me open my eyes
BB Piano Chord 

My temperature started to rise
AA Piano Chord 

She was a long cool woman in a black dress
GG Piano Chord 
                EE Piano Chord 

Just-a 5'9, beautiful, tall
AA Piano Chord 

With just one look I was a bad mess
GG Piano Chord 
                      EE Piano Chord 

'Cause that long cool woman had it all

Break between verses [4X]:

1)
v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
-----------------|-----------------
-----------------|-----------------
-----1---1---1---|---------------0-
-----2---2---2---|---0-------0-----
---------------0-|-2-----0-2-------
-0---------------|-----------------

2,3,4)
v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
-----------------|-----------------
-----------------|-----------------
-----------------|---------------0-
-2-2-----2---2---|---0-------0-----
---------------0-|-2-----0-2-------
-----------------|-----------------

[Guitar 2 plays mostly muted quarter-notes on low E]

[repeat main riff, 4X, as before]

Verse 2:

EE Piano Chord 

I saw her head up the table
GG Piano Chord 
            AA Piano Chord 
         EE Piano Chord 

Well, a tall walking big black cat
(E)
When Charlie said I hope that you're able boy
GG Piano Chord 
               AA Piano Chord 
               EE Piano Chord 

Well, I'm telling you she knows where it's at
(E)
Then suddenly we heard the sirens
GG Piano Chord 
          AA Piano Chord 
        EE Piano Chord 

And everybody started to run
(E)
A-jumping out of doors and tables
GG Piano Chord 
             AA Piano Chord 
          EE Piano Chord 

When I heard somebody shooting a gun

(E)
Well, the D.A. was pumping my left hand
GG Piano Chord 
          AA Piano Chord 
          EE Piano Chord 

And a-she was a-holding my right
(E)
Well I told her don't get scared
GG Piano Chord 

'Cause you're gonna be spared
AA Piano Chord 

I've gotta be forgiving if I wanna spend my living
(A)
With a long cool woman in a black dress
GG Piano Chord 
              EE Piano Chord 

Just a 5'9 beautiful tall
AA Piano Chord 

Yeah, with just one look I was a bad mess
GG Piano Chord 
                      EE Piano Chord 

'Cause that long cool woman had it all

Coda (over main riff):

(E)
Had it all...		[repeat to fade]

-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers