From the Quentin Tarantino film, From Dusk ’til Dawn (A Demon Night)… The Hollies’ song, “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” was their biggest hit in the USA. They were popular in the UK and Europe, but this song was their highest chart number in the US. In the film, Salma Hayek’s character, Satanica Pandemonium, does am exotic table dance that wows the audience. One of the employees stabs a patron and when Satanica sees the blood, she becomes a vampire. Eventually all of the bar’s patrons become vampires and chaos ensues until Satanica is destroyed by a falling chandelier.
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 D.A. man
When I heard this woman singing a song
A pair of forty fives 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 ‘n’ tall
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
Charlie said, I hope that you’re able, boy
‘Cause I’m telling you she knows where it’s at
Well, suddenly we hear the sirens
And everybody started to run
Jumping under doors and tables
Well, I heard somebody shooting a gun
Well, the D.A. was pumping my left hand
She was 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 ‘n’ 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 (she had it all)