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One time love, take care how you use it
Try to make it last all night,
And if you take your pick
Be careful how you choose it,
Sometimes its hard to feel it bite
Feel it bite.
A man I know, went down to Louisiana,
Had himself a bad, bad fight
And when the sun peeked through
John Cameron with Suzanna,
He kissed the whiskers, left & right
Whiskers!
Now, now, now, fright subsides
Out at a hotel in the quarter,
Our friends check in to pass the night
Now love gets hot, but fire preceded water
Poor whiskers set the room alight.
Whiskers!
Down on Bourbon street,
You know it's right
You can see my friend,
They run around all through the night
Most everywhere,
Until the closet's bare
Run for the razor,
Doin' up my hair
New Orleans queens,
Sure know how to schmooze it
Maybe for some that seems alright
When I step out, strut down with my sugar
She'd best not talk like Barry White!
One time love, take care how you use it
Try to make it last all night,
And if you take your pick
Be careful how you choose it,
Sometimes its hard to feel it bite
Feel it bite.
Try to make it last all night,
And if you take your pick
Be careful how you choose it,
Sometimes its hard to feel it bite
Feel it bite.
A man I know, went down to Louisiana,
Had himself a bad, bad fight
And when the sun peeked through
John Cameron with Suzanna,
He kissed the whiskers, left & right
Whiskers!
Now, now, now, fright subsides
Out at a hotel in the quarter,
Our friends check in to pass the night
Now love gets hot, but fire preceded water
Poor whiskers set the room alight.
Whiskers!
Down on Bourbon street,
You know it's right
You can see my friend,
They run around all through the night
Most everywhere,
Until the closet's bare
Run for the razor,
Doin' up my hair
New Orleans queens,
Sure know how to schmooze it
Maybe for some that seems alright
When I step out, strut down with my sugar
She'd best not talk like Barry White!
One time love, take care how you use it
Try to make it last all night,
And if you take your pick
Be careful how you choose it,
Sometimes its hard to feel it bite
Feel it bite.
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i never knew it was about JPJ hooking up with a tranny XD
Fucking Hiliriaus.
"The transvestites were actually friends of Richard Cole's; normal friendly people and we were all at some bar. That I mistook a transvestite for a girl is rubbish; that happened in another country to somebody else... Anyway 'Stephanie' ended up in my room and we rolled a joint or two and I fell asleep and set fire to the hotel room, as you do, ha ha, and when I woke up it was full of firemen!"
Of course, there's always some possibility that he's lying to save face, but this is nonetheless interesting.
I like that her nickname is "whiskers". Shows she wasn't too polished. "Kissed the whiskers left and right": He kissed ALL the whiskers. She wasn't even shaved too well down there. Plant is saying he prefers them to be a little more convincing, he doesn't want his to sound like "Barry White." So the drag queens were probably black, too. He really paints quite a picture.
It cracks me up how fans are in total denial about the stuff these guys got into.
Its true they all experimented with drugs, i mean it was the 70s. although jones and plant weren't as much into drugs - at one point Jones said of he and Plant, "There were two camps, and we were in the relatively clean one." he also said "Looking back it does seem that Robert and I were holding things together while the others dealt with problems."
anyway this song is funny... I love zeppelin's sense of humor, this song was used to poke fun at jones after he teased plant about vocals not being important or something