The Hollies - The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee [Lyrics] [720p]
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2014
- Track: 24. The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee
Album: (2014) Hollies' Greatest Volume 2 (Japanese Remaster)
Lyric Font: Hombre
Picture: Public Domain
Big tall man standing in the street
Gun hanging by his side
Just one man that he'd like to meet
That's when I began to hide
I recognised him from the face of his son
The hate in his eye didn't lie
And what I did can't be undone
Borrowed time there's none to buy
Well I hid round the back of a derelict shack
Ain't looking for a mad showdown
But he was smart, he'd already checked
A week in advance I'd paid down
Well the hotel clerk was a fun-loving man
The job he had it didn't pay
He told all about what happened that night
There he is, that's the one's all he'd say
Well all the people were running, jumping, even thumping
On my bad neighbours doors
Crying Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly
Let me in I gotta hide
Well everybody was crying, sighing Sam McGee's dying
No one to protect our town
Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly,
He's gonna shoot your sheriff down
Big tall man standing in the street
Now a hand hovering ready to slide
Drew out his gun it wasn't for fun
Let me in there's nowhere to hide
Well I made my play but it wasn't my day
I felt the ripping lead
That's when I knew my time was through
Rest in peace were the last words he said
Well all the people were running, jumping, even thumping
On my bad neighbours doors
Crying Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly
Let me in I gotta hide
Well everybody was crying, sighing Sam McGee's dying
No one to protect our town
Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly,
He's gonna shoot your sheriff down
Well all the people were running, jumping, even thumping
On my bad neighbours doors
Crying Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly
Let me in I gotta hide
Well everybody was crying, sighing Sam McGee's dying
No one to protect our town
Curly Billy Silly with his colt he calls filly,
He's gonna shoot your sheriff down
This song is as good as Long Cool Woman. It boggles the mind as to why it didn’t get the same recognition.
Better in my opinion! It went to No. 1 in the Netherlands from memory. I bought the single back in '73.
I agree, cool song, imo not as big as long cool woman because of the lyrics
But, also imo, i think the hollies could have had a whole nother career in the 70's just by keeping on doing songs in this style, i personally love it
Same riff, same song :-)
I think it's better, too. @@TigerRogers0660
Pure Rock and Roll...I think the best song from The Hollies....WOW!!
and Long Cool Woman ist auch Fantastic
First single I bought.... and even now (45 years later) that twanging riff still hits the spot
This the hollies at their best oh for the 70s
Que grande fueron maravillosos los
Años 70 no los olvidare jamas
17 7 2020 chile🥳🥳
Asi es compatriota
2022 and still listening to this great song!
Number 1 in the Dutch top 40 on my birthday, 28-11-1973, Nice!
Hace you ever heard STOP STOP STOP by. The hollies? Try on !
fantastic song
This isn't music, It's ART..............
Great band, great song.. the spirit of the sixties..
Even though it was released in 1973?
You don't know much about the hollies do you. 60s sound was much different
One of their best from the Sylvester era.
This one takes me back. Early '70s, I was knee-high to a spacehopper, the only records I had to call my own were 'Sugar Sugar' by the Archies and a short story about a train called Thomas narrated by Johnny 'Animal Magic' Morris.
We (myself and my brother and sisters) had communal access to a couple of 'Top of the Pops' albums and a few singles - this being one of them. I used to listen to this over and over again. I loved it. It still sounds good now (first time I've heard it in about ... *ahem* years, by the way - thanks for uploading). 'Curly Billy' and the knock-off version of 'Solid Gold Easy Action' were practically the only songs I listened to for a while. I became quite adept at lifting the needle before it erred into the abominable Rod Stewart song 'Angel' and returning it to the start of 'Solid Gold'.
EPIC BAND
Masterpiece..............
As good today as it was back then.
Pure classic!
WHAT A SOUUUNDDD❤️🍻
Very Best Hollies-Song ----Ever !!!
Stoned2072 I like that part of the song where they go on about protecting some town cos they are actually singing something else entirely. NO ONE TOOK MY TITS OUTA TOWN
Stoned2072 The song of a knife........
Totally agree with you there. I've loved this number ever since it came out. Only Alan Clark can nail it, too.
The Hollies are a great band with the best vocals ever - The best sound you can get - are this SHM CDs it gives many album from the Hollies in this quality - Take allok for DISTANT LIGHT - mega.
Geniales
Not dead. very much alive!!
una palabra.? MOUNSTROS
Love Alan Clarks voice only he could punch out a song like this
Heard this on the radio. A guy tried to find it and the DJ got it
This is such a great song. They should played it more on the radio. Cause the,ll meet curly Blily😅
s Hollies es un álbum de 1974 por el pop-rock Inglés band The Hollies , que marca el regreso de Allan Clarke después de que él se había ido a una carrera en solitario. La pieza central es la cubierta clásica de la banda de Albert Hammond balada 's " El aire que respiro ", un gran éxito en todo el mundo ese año. También contiene otros " Larga Mujer Enfriar en un vestido de Negro "soundalike en" El Día Que Curly Billy tirado abajo Loco Sam McGee ".
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress: Wild West Edition
buen tema lo escuche interpretado por Asfalto
I never heard this before. The radio people probably thought it sounded too much like Long Cool Woman.
Holy Shit this is good!!!👍👏
Nash ...... you betrayed Allan .....shouldn't have left THE HOLLIES,,,ok
Rubbish!!!!
Misheard lyric - Till is saw this I always thought the lyric was "Curly Billy Silly Willy......".
Is Sam McGee related to Bobby Mcgee?
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Aw, I love mature-sounding hollies, far from the boy loves girl tracks according to that photo taken in 67
Wordsmiths.....
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I heard that this track is actually the "B" side of their released hit single "Long Cool Woman". If you ask me, this track rocks far better than Long cool Woman!
you heard wrong, "Cable Car" was the UK Bside to LCW..... "Look what we got" was the US Bside
I've got it as an "A" side from1973 on Polydor in the UK, the "B" side was "Born a Man".
I prefer the Hello Suzanne voice than the CCR-type voice.
lol @that guy on the far right the enigmatic repulsed disgusted facial expression like he just detected methane of the worst kind. frilly shirt looks guilty
MANCHESTER doesn't forgive
Are we supposed to assume that the singer of the song is dead?
Sounds like they ripped off their own Long Cool Woman.....lol