Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Shoulder Holster, artist - Elton John.
Date of issue: 31.12.1975
Song language: English
Shoulder Holster |
Now it was just like Frankie and Johnny |
And it was just like Stagger Lee |
Dolly Summers was a simple girl |
From a mid-west family |
With a stucco home and her own Mustang |
And a charge account at Sears |
She had everything that a girl could want |
To live happy for the rest of her years |
But the thing that she wanted most of all |
Was the thing that she had lost |
To the arms of a downtown black jack hustler |
By the name of Candyfloss |
They’d skipped town on a late night train |
Heading for the West |
Dolly slipped behind the wheel of her Mustang |
With a piece between her breast |
She put a pistol in her shoulder holster |
She took her car up from Santa Fe Yesterday morning she was washing dishes |
Now she’s hunting down a runaway |
Don’t judge a man by a misdemeanor |
You may be sorry when his light goes out |
Don’t put that pistol in your shoulder holster |
You can never, never tell if the Law’s about |
If it seemed just like a movie |
Or a night of bad TV |
They should have had a picture of Dolly’s face |
As she drove across country |
With daggers drawn for her fallen man |
And venom in her heart |
It was nearly dawn when she caught them up Making out in a picnic park |
But the thing that shook her rigid |
As she fumbled for her gun |
Was the state of the man that she’d married once |
And thought of as the only one |
And as she looked back on the chances |
That she’d passed up at home |
Well she quietly dumped her pistol in a ditch |
And she headed home alone |