Gene Watson – Love in the Hot Afternoon, is a song written by Vince Matthews and Kent Westbury, and recorded by American country music artist Gene Watson. It was released in May 1975 as the second single and title track from the album Love in the Hot Afternoon. The song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, becoming his first top 40 and first top 10 hit on that chart. Two years later, American contralto pop music singer Vicki Lawrence released her female version of this song with the gender reversed as a promotional single on Private Stock Records.
In 2010, it was covered by Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Matt Sweeney for the Adult Swim Singles Program.
Gene Watson – Love in the Hot Afternoon
From the album Love in the Hot Afternoon
B-side “Through the Eyes of Love”
Released May 1975
Recorded 1974
Genre Country
Label Capitol 4076
Songwriter(s) Vince Matthews and Kent Westbury
Producer(s) Russ Reeder
COUNTRYPEDIA
Gene Watson – Love in the Hot Afternoon Lyrics
[Verse 1]
From somewhere outside, I hear the street vendor cry
“Filé gumbo”
From my window, I see him
Going down the street
And he don’t know
That she fell right to sleep
In the damp tangled sheets, so soon
After love in, the hot, afternoon
[Chorus]
Now the bourbon street lady
Sleeps like a baby
In the shadows (In the shadows)
She was new to me
Full of mystery
But now I know (But now I know)
That she’s just a girl
And I’m just a guy
In a room
For love, in the hot, afternoon
[Verse 2]
We got high in the park
This morning and we sat, without talkin’
Then we came back here
In the heat of the day, tired of walkin’
Where under her breath
She hummed to herself, a tune
Of love, in the hot, afternoon
[Chorus]
GENIUS
