Did He Shoot Her?


Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album Breaking Hearts

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Sling your hook in with him baby
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He's a real sharp-shooter now
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If he's out there hiding in the tall grass
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Tell him I said he    was a  coward

This ain't any old western honey
It's the twentieth century now
But if he thinks he's some kind of tough cowboy
And he's hurt her then I want  to know how

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Did he shoot her with his compromise
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Like a heart attack he can paralyse
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Or did he hang her in a noose
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On the telephone line

Did he shoot her  with a forty five
Did he leave his mark right between her eyes
Oh did he shoot that girl

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        That used to be mine

Tell him I'm ready any time he chooses
The pay-off for the things, for the things he's done
He ain't messing with no two-bit bandit
Armed with a cou-  ple of guns

If he wants to see it as a two reel movie
He's living in the head of someone else
But better take him down and dust him honey
I want to hear the truth for my-self

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Did he shoot her
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Did he shoot her