Shoulder Holster chords by
Elton John
Elton John

N/A
Key: G major
Intro 1
D
D

C
C

G
G

C
C

G
G

C
C

Verse 1
G
G

Now, it was
just like Frankie and Johnny
C
C

G
G

C
C

And it was just like Stagger Lee
G
G

Dolly Summers was a simple girl
C
C

From a mid-west family
G
G

family
With a stucco home and her own Mustang
C
C

Em
Em

G
G

And a charge account at Sears
D
D

She had everything that
C
C

a girl could want
G
G

To live happy for the rest
Interlude 1
of her years
A
A

C
C

G
G

C
C

Verse 2
G
G

But the thing that she wanted most of all
C
C

G
G

Was the thing that she had lost
C
C

G
G

To the arms of a downtown
blackjack hustler
C
C

G
G

By the name of Candyfloss
They'd skipped town
on a late-night train
train
Em
Em

G
G

Heading for the West
C
C

G
G

D
D

Dolly slipped behind
C
C

the wheel of her Mustang
G
G

With a piece between her breast
A
A

Verse 3
D
D

She put a pistol in her shoulder holster
F
F

She took her car up from Santa Fe
C
C

Yesterday morning she
was washing dishes
G
G

Now she's hunting down a runaway
D
D

Don't judge a man by a misdemeanor
F
F

You may be sorry when
his light goes out
C
C

Don't put that pistol in
your shoulder holster
G
G

You can never,
Bb
Bb

never tell if the Law's about
Interlude 2
Am
Am

C
C

G
G

D
D

C
C

G
G

C
C

Verse 4
G
G

If it seemed just like a movie
C
C

Or a night of bad TV
G
G

They should have had a
picture of Dolly's face
C
C

As she drove across country
G
G

With daggers drawn for
F
F

G
G

F
F

her fallen man
C
C

G
G

And venom in her heart
D
D

It was nearly dawn when she
C
C

caught them up
G
G

Making out in a picnic park
Interlude 3
A
A

C
C

G
G

C
C

Verse 5
G
G

But the thing that shook her rigid
C
C

G
G

As she fumbled for her gun
Was the state of the man that
she'd married once
C
C

And thought of as the only one
G
G

And as she looked back on the chances
Em
Em

C
C

Em
Em

C
C

G
G

That she'd passed up at home
D
D

Well, she quietly dumped
C
C

her pistol in a ditch
G
G

And she headed home alone
Outro 1
A
A

D
D

F
F

C
C

G
G

D
D

F
F

Bbsus4
Bbsus4

C
C

G
G

Bb
Bb

A
A

Am
Am

A
A

D
D

C
C

G
G

D
D

C
C

G
G

A
A

C
C

G
G

A
A

D
D

C
C

G
G

C
C

C#dim
C#dim

D
D

C
C

G
G

A
A

D
D

C
C

G
G

C
C

G
G

D
D

C
C

C
C

G
G

C
C

C
C

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