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Slade – Big Apple Blues (1977) | Track profile | Dork

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Slade
Whatever Happened to Slade
Big Apple Blues

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Big Apple Blues

Release date: 21st March 1977

From Whatever Happened to Slade

About This Track

"Big Apple Blues" is a track by Slade, from the album Whatever Happened to Slade, released 21st March 1977. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Slade

Slade

Lyrics

Big Apple Blues

City streets where the steam and the heat never goes to sleep

What a sight all the yellow and tans and the black and whites

There's also a dark shade of blue struttin' along two by two

Their guns hangin' low like the cowboys you dig in the old gunfights

But still I got hooked on them big apple blues

And I got hung up on them big apple blues

And I got strung up on them big apple blues

I ain't got nothin' to lose

Them hot licks from the hicks satisfy the Manhattan chicks

Them cool schmucks get their hooks on the bucks with their sexy looks

They all know how to do what good little girls shouldn't do

I don't care 'bout evasion cos all o' that hassle sucks

But still I got hooked on them big apple blues

And I got hung up on them big apple blues

And I got strung up on them big apple blues

I ain't got nothin' to lose

I got got turned on - I got got turned on -

I got got turned on - I got got turned on

I got got turned on - I got got turned on -

I got got turned on - I got got turned on

I got got turned on - I got got hooked on -

I got got switched on - I got got turned on

I got got turned on - I got got hooked on -

I got got switched on - I got got turned on yeah

City streets where the steam and the heat never goes to sleep

And city walls standing tall if you fall no-one hears you call

There are bodies all filled up with wine sayin' buddy have you got a dime

The apple ain't bad it's just bruised and I'm glad that it's there at all

But still I got hooked on them big apple blues

And I got hung up on them big apple blues

I got strung on switched on hooked on them big apple blues

I got hooked on snooked on cooked on them big apple blues

Why I got to hang on to hang on to hang on to hang on to them blues

Why I got hooked on cooked on snooked on them big apple blues

And I got hooked on them big apple blues

I ain't got nothin' to lose

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Track details

From Whatever Happened to Slade

1977

Listen

Album

Whatever Happened to Slade

Release year

1977

—Rock 'N' Roll Bolero
—Give Us a Goal
—Ready Steady Kids
—The Soul, the Roll and the Motion
—It Ain't Love But It Ain't Bad
—Dogs of Vengeance
—Big Apple Blues
—Forest Full of Needles
—Gypsy Roadhog
—Be
—Daddio
—Dead Men Tell No Tales
—It's Alright Buy Me
—Lightning Never Strikes Twice
—One Eyed Jacks with Moustaches
—She’s Got the Lot
—O.H.M.S.
—When Fantasy Calls

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