Elton John – Shoulder Holster (Guitar)
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Chords
[Intro]
C G C G C C
[Verse 1]
G C G Now, it was just like Frankie and Johnny and it was just like Stagger Lee C G Dolly Summers was a simple girl from a mid-west family G7 C G With a stucco home and her own Mustang and a charge account at Sears C G/B A Well she had everything that a girl could want to live happy fot thr rest of her years
[Instrumental]
C G C C
[Verse 2]
G C G But the thing that she wanted most of all was the thing that she had lost C G To the arms of a downtown black jack hustler by the name of Candy Floss G7 C G They'd slipped town on a late night train heading for the west C G/B A Dolly slipped behind the wheel of her Mustang with a piece between her breast
[Chorus]
D F She put a pistol in her shoulder holster, she took her car up from Santa Fe C G Yesterday morning she was washing dishes, now she's hunting down a runaway D F Don't judge a man by a misdemeanor, you may be sorry when his light goes out C G/B Gm/Bb Am Don't put that pistol in your shoulder holster, you can never, never tell if the Law's about
[Instrumental]
C G C G C C
[Verse 3]
G C G If it seemed just like a movie or a night of bad TV C G They should have had a picture of Dolly's face as she drove across the country G7 C G With daggers drawn for her fallen man and venom in her heart C G/B A It was nearly dawn when she caught them up making out in a picnic park
[Instrumental]
C G C C
[Verse 4]
G C G But the thing that shook her rigid as she fumbled for her gun C G Was the state of the man that she'd married once and thought of as the only one G7 C G And as she looked back on the chances that she'd passed up at home C G/B A Well, she quietly dumped pistol in a ditch and she headed home alone. Well
[Chorus]
D F She put a pistol in her shoulder holster, she took her car up from Santa Fe C G Yesterday morning she was washing dishes, now she's hunting down a runaway D F Don't judge a man by a misdemeanor, you may be sorry when his light goes out C G/B Gm/Bb Am Don't put that pistol in your shoulder holster, you can never, never tell if the Law's about
[Outro]
C G You can never, never tell if the Law's about C G You can never, never tell if the Law's about C G You can never, never tell if the Law's about C G C G C G You can never, never tell if the Law's about C G You can never, never tell if the Law's about C G You can never, never tell if the Law's about C G You can never, never tell if the Law's about C G You can never, never tell if the Law's about...