Elton John
One Horse Town lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1976
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 5:57
Saw a Cadillac for the first time yesterday
I'd always seen horses, buggies, bales of hay
'Cause progress here don't move with modern times
There's nothing to steal
So there's not a great deal of crime
It sure is hell living in a one horse town
There's half a mile of Alabama mud bed ground
Nothing much doing of an afternoon
Unless you're sitting in a rocking chair just picking a tune
And they ain't too well acquainted with the stars and stripes
But if you want to hear Susanna then they'll pick all night
They'll pick all night
'Cause it's no dice living in a one horse town
Laid back, as my old coon hound
And I just can't wait to get out of this one horse town
There's nothing to steal 'cause there's simply nothing much around
Sure is hell living in this one horse town
There's half a mile of Alabama mud bed ground
And I just can't wait to get out of this one horse town
There's nothing to steal 'cause there's nothing much around
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Key vocabulary
- steal
- take without permissionA2
- susanna
- female given name
- they'll
- they will
- dice
- small cubes for games
- laid
- placed or set down
- coon
- raccoon; insult
- back
- toward the rearA1
- hay
- there is
- don't
- do notA1
- hell
- place of punishmentB2
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About this song
Elton John is an English singer-songwriter and pianist known for his role in pop rock and piano-driven glam rock. He became famous for the songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin and for a career that produced major chart hits and award-winning performances.