April Wine - You Could Have Been A Lady Lyrics

Awesome tune.. love finding old music I've never before 👍

Great song to play on drums for sure. Love April Wine!

Powers, step into my office. Let's do some blow...

Anyone who "thumbs down" this song must only enjoy the sound of spoons and washboards.

I remember hearing this jam in the 6th grade and going Ape Shit over it...

Hot Chocolate!!! Probably the most covered band in the 70s 80s!!!

Greatest thing about early 70s hard rock is that what you heard on stage is exactly what you heard on the album. Raw and not over engineered

Un des groupes rock les plus sous-estimés de toute l’histoire de la 🎶 musique!!!

The chorus rings strongly of The Jackson's Blame It On The Boogie.

Nice that the Jackson's saw something in the song they liked and thought they could use. Goes to show that even the Jackson band could be inspired by others' music.

Early 70's hanging in Grand Bend during the summers, The pier,the roller rink,the main strip with a little doobage. Oh yeah

I read that this is Bruce Jenners favorite song

Could have but wasn't. Sorry to my 2 ex husbands. Lol

they were playing this outside the hotel i work at and i was just rythmically bobbing in the street like a crackhead

Kenny Powers and Clegg blowing lines!!!

Is that Mercer second to the right?

Con cierto tinte a Steve Miller band.

this song is dope

My buddies (The Brats) opened for them in St John's NF...ooo whatanite. lol

I forgot about this awesome song..use to party hard to this song in the 80's!

This song is actually from the early 70s ... reminds me of Three Dog Night

Cocaine

That was basically college for me, just y'know, fuckin' tourin' with Widespread all across the USA

Thank you!! For April wine and loverboy!! Canada!!! From Idaho Usa!! 2019 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

And Aldo Nova.

Right on!

Canadien Super Group, no not that one, the better one.......April Wine!!!!!!

Good music all around.seen them a few years back in portage la Prarie manitoba.real tight and awesome. The potatoe festival rocks

I was a LADY... I went home with my man.
I will always be a lady!!

Ripped off the Hot Chocolate Bands song

I think it was '82, my friends and I saw the The Who (minus Keith). After the show, a friend says "April Wine was better". ( he saw them the week before) I thought the remark was outrageous but the fact was the Who sounded flat that night . throughout the years, I pondered this remark and have concluded that as far as that Who lineup went, he was right and the fact that these guys could cover Hot Chocolate and make it friggin work.....To my friend John D, you were right, April Wine was better.

A lack of great songs was the major hinderance to their career.

Not a bad cover version . Still prefer the original by Hot Chocolate.

There both good

I like to ROCK. CHEERS, LARRY, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

I just love this song so much. Probably my all time favorite song by a Canadian band. It's so different from the original version by Hot Chocolate.

Off of the On the record album from 1972

They played at my highschool in the early 70's

If I remember correctly, they did a concert as a front for The Rolling Stones back in the late 70's in a small venue. Needless when The Stones came out, everyone went crazy. Does anybody else remember that?

An old Hot Chocolate tune.

I've seen April Wine 16 times now.

Wish I could find April Wine At Cayuga Speedway May 24 1993.
What a super fantastic weekend. They were joined by Kim Mitchel and Lee Arron. Good times.

Could have been a lady If I wasn't on the bad side of the moon, but I love to rock; guess enough is enough eh!!

Greatest 3 hit wonder ever!

Awesome! Totally awesome!!

No comment, just sharing some new music, sounds like classic rock!
https://youtu.be/_C_qvJ3mVec
Band is GLITTER DOGS. 2 albums on Spotify, iTunes.

Every time they say "Could have been a lady" I say "Blame it on the boogie".

Ha ha ha. And now you can be whatever you want and use whatever bathroom you want.

Somebody told me this was Argent. It kind of sounds like them. Good song anyway.

American who always loved Canadian music and beer!

Our whisky is top notch stuff as well.

Fucking eh!!!! canadian right here.... Cheers and beers ;)

Moosehead here in Missouri

Ditto !

Same here plus hockey 👍

Rat round and round

April is great! Wine is very cool !! How could you not like "APRIL WINE"...???

Both versions of this song kick ass!

Derek Kane
Don’t forget Hot Chocolate recorded this twice. Once in ‘71, which this version resembles. And, again in ‘76, with a more disco flavor.

Who are the morons who hate April Wine? LOSERS!

Like Isaid-Brookdale-Barrie Ontario.

Thankyou----------------Myles and band.

Painter

Biggest thing to come out of nb ns for sure.well besides anne murray😀

Such an awesome band!

This is a funky song by April wine. Their stuff beats today's crap 50..to.one.

I forgot how man times these guys tagged our ass with a great song!

Canada fucking rocks! The sound of that guitar.. damn!

Funkier than Grand Funk Railroad. Good rock n roll nugget from 1972. All the April Wine I'll ever need.

Say what?
You got gapped by 10 diferent countries and now yer tryin to run shit?

Whos here cuz of east bound and down like this comment

not my favorite group but this song kicks ass..

How many people searched for this song because of Kenny Fucking Powers!?!

Los vi en
El paso tx juntos con molly hatchet hace como treinta anos

Could've been alright......Could've been here tonight, could've been sweet as wine..............

Funky guitar, with plenty of style

Clegg brought me here

MisterTenacious D April Big Cannons did it for me.

Love this song

Old and best

This song for some reason makes me feel like it's a hot mid-summer day. Such a kick-ass rockin piece of music!

For sure....greatest guitars

Great song to listen to stoned

One the underated Canandian bands, so many, Triumph BTO, to name a couple,

Mahogany Rush to name another.

Don't forget Max Webster...

Amen to all 👍

Chilliwack

The middle guy was an Apple fan before it was cool.

Utility Protectron hahaha

Middle guy is brian greenway

Hot Chocolate cover.....awesome...

Awesome song.

The place, A local high school located in Ville LaSalle, Quebec
back in the early 70's is where I and all my school friends first heard this amazing band.
Can you just imagine, being in that school with April Wine?
They blew everyone away, I am so very happy April Wine went on
and became Super Rock Stars. I saw this band BEFORE they became famous, They played at a local school in the gym, None of us had mobile phones back then.
When April Wine was finished their very first song, all of us were like JAW DROPPED - TOTALLY LIKE - WHO ARE THESE GUYS????? Then they played their second song, it was just awesome, we were jumping - screaming, WHAT AN AMAZING BAND.

Hey if any of the guys in the April Wine reads this do drop me a message.
Much Respect
John from Ville LaSalle, Quebec.

cool, I can totally relate to what you´re saying, and I´ve been to lasalle many times, back then, everything was new, even star wars was something you heard about first, then went to see without really having a clue, then you were just blown away, I saw level 42 the band at university making their first north american appearance, and it was like wtf, who are these guys, great musicians...have a good day

Me too.
LaSalle High School

Home alone listening to the best group to hAve a drink with they still rock . Love guitars !!😊

in my camaro

Steve jobs must have loved this album cover alot.

we played this on the jukebox at the pool...wore it out!!! :-)

I could have been a lady too, but I decided to be a bitch

How's that working for you?

Something seems missing - live version exemplifies

Rated under

Not really a"deep cut". #1 here in eastern Canada in early 70's , still kicks ass !

Magnificent groove overdose!

canada's grand funk railroad

Good taste my brother. Saw them in Toronto when teeny bopper.

If u listen to the very end of track you can hear definite GRAND FUNK RAILROAD influences

Ha....so true......can totally see the connection. Great observation.

Man, this album sure brings back memories. Timeless.

Not an original April Wine song but they do a great cover of it !!

Takes me back to the time I had a summer job as a CPR railway porter in my University days. The rule was that we couldn't sleep more than 3 hrs. a night, en route, which was virtually impossible to observe. The "rhythm of the rails" is absolutely mesmerizing. A songwriter can't go wrong with a "train song." The City of New Orleans was an instant classic. And I've heard 97 different versions of The Orange Blossom Special and have yet to hear a bad one. It's the popular music counterpart of The William Tell Overture. I realize this April Wine ditty is not, strictly speaking, a "train song" but, IMHO, the lyrics are almost superfluous. Since I'm only semi-familiar with this song I'll have to listen to it again to find out what it's all about!

This April Wine song was a hit at the exact same time as Arlo's City of New Orleans, so that might be the connection you made!

I Dale I Have seen so many fantastic concerts that people today will never see its a shame they never will Music is a grace of enjoyment for us all to many to Pink Floyd was the best

Real honest rock n' roll!

I love this cover as much as the original. When I heard it the other night on the radio, and couldn't believe my ears. Why do some classics not get much airplay, while others have been played to death?

Great classic! The oldies are always the best!

hall and aots

Fukin eh!!!The Wine rule!!!

Saw them in a tent downtown Calgary 2 years ago they still got it ; )))

Fucked me up finding out this was a cover, the original is by Hot Chocolate

Kenny Powers snorting blow brought me here.

kenny fucking powers

Sand Wolf lmao i see im not the only one.

kenny powers lets step into my office... do some blow

RIP Steve Lang.

How many smokes you got, Lucy?

Jroc Rockpile