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[Verse 1]
            G                                       C                    G
Now, it was just like Frankie and Johnny and it was just like Stagger Lee
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Dolly Summers was a simple girl from a mid-west family
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With a stucco home and her own Mustang and a charge account at Sears
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Well she had everything that a girl could want to live happy fot thr rest of her years


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
        G                                         C                      G
But the thing that she wanted most of all was the thing that she had lost
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To the arms of a downtown black jack hustler by the name of Candy Floss
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They'd slipped town on a late night train heading for the west
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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
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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
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Don't put that pistol in your shoulder holster, you can never, never tell if the Law's about


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
      G                             C              G
If it seemed just like a movie or a night of bad TV
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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]
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[Verse 4]
        G                                 C                  G
But the thing that shook her rigid as she fumbled for her gun
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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
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You can never, never tell if the Law's about
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You can never, never tell if the Law's about
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You can never, never tell if the Law's about
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You can never, never tell if the Law's about
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You can never, never tell if the Law's about
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You can never, never tell if the Law's about
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You can never, never tell if the Law's about...