Explain The Lyrics

Two, three, four

(woo-hoo,woo-hoo)
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo)

Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
So I’m gonna let it do all the talking.
(woo-hoo, woo-hoo)
I came across a place in the middle of nowhere
with a big black horse and a cherry tree.
(woo-hoo, woo-hoo)

I fell in fear, upon my back
I said don’t look back, just keep on walking.
(woo-hoo, woo-hoo)
When the big black horse that looked this way,
Said hey lady, will you marry me?
(woo-hoo, woo-hoo)

But I said no, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you’re not the one for me
No, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you’re not the one for me

(ooooo,woo-hoo)

And my heart had a problem, in the early hours,
So it stopped it dead for a beat or two.
(woo-hoo, woo-hoo)
But I cut some cord, and I shouldn’t have done that,
And it won’t forgive me after all these years
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo)

So I sent her to a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree.
(woo-hoo, woo-hoo)
Now it won’t come back , cause it’s oh so happy
And now I’ve got a hole for the world to see
(woo-hoo,woo-hoo)

But it said no, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you’re not the one for me
No, no, no, no-no-no
Said no, no, you’re not the one for me

(ooooo,woo-hoo) (not the one for me, yeah)
(ooooo,woo-hoo)
Said no, no, no, no, no, no, no
You’re not the one for me
Said no, no, no, no, no, no, no
You’re not the one for me

Big black horse and a cherry tree
I can’t quite get there cause they’ve all forsaken me
Big black horse and a cherry tree
I can’t quite get there cause they’ve all forsaken me

This song was basically copied from The Pointer Sisters’ song “Neutron Dance”.  Some lesbian rumors were fuelled by a demo version of “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” which surfaced on the Internet in April 2005. It has different backing vocals to the released version, with the phrase “pubes in the teeth” being chanted between the “woo hoo” refrain. Tunstall told lesbian magazine Diva in June that the recording had been made as a joke during some drunken hijinks at a recording session and was later leaked without her knowledge.

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