Elton John - Shoulder Holster lyrics

Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album blue moves<br><br>Now it was just like frankie and johnny<br>And it was just like stagger lee<br>Dolly summers was a simple girl<br>From a mid-west family<br>With a stucco home and her own mustang<br>And a charge account at sears<br>She had everything that a girl could want<br>To live happy for the rest of her years<br><br>But the thing that she wanted most of all<br>Was the thing that she had lost<br>To the arms of a downtown black jack hustler<br>By the name of candyfloss<br>They'd slipped town on a late night train<br>Heading for the west<br>Dolly slipped behind the wheel of her mustang<br>With a piece between her breast<br><br>If it seemed just like a movie<br>Or a night of bad tv<br>They should have had a picture of dolly's face<br>As she drove across the country<br>With daggers drawn for her fallen man<br>An venom in her heart<br>It was nearly dawn when she caught them up<br>Making out in a picnic park<br><br>But the thing that shook her rigid<br>As she fumbled for her gun<br>Was the state of the man that she'd married once<br>And thought of as the only one<br>And as she looked back on the chances<br>That she'd passed up at home<br>Well she quietly dumped pistol in a ditch<br>And she headed home alone