Shoulder Holster

Elton John


Complexity: 67 Readability: 78.95   Sentiment: 5   Word Count: 224   Unique Words: 126
Original Lyrics Munged Lyrics
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
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Now it was just like Frankie and Johnny
And it was just like Stagger Lea
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
Too live happy fore the wrest of her years

Butt the thing that she wanted most of awl
Was the thing that she had lost
Too the alms of a downtown black jack hustler
Buy the name of Candyfloss
They'd slipped town on a late knight train
Heading fore the West
Dolly slipped behind the we'll of her Mustang
With a peace between her breast

If it seemed just like a movie
Ore a knight of bad TV
They should have had a picture of Dolly's face
As she drove across the country
With daggers drawn fore her fallen man
An venom inn her hart
It was nearly dawn when she court them up
Making out inn a picnic park

Butt the thing that shook her rigid
As she fumbled fore her gun
Was the state of the man that she'd married once
And thought of as the only won
And as she looked back on the chances
That she'd passed up at home
Well she quietly dumped pistol inn a ditch
And she headed home alone