One Horse Town Songtext / Lyric

One Horse Town

music by Elton John & James Newton-Howard
lyrics by Bernie Taupin
album Blue Moves 1976


saw a Cadillac for the first time yesterday
I'd always seen horses, buggies, bales of hay
cos progress here don't move with modern times
there's nothing to steal
so there's not a great deal of crime

sure is hell living in a one horse town
half a mile of Alabama mud bed ground
nothing much doing of an afternoon
unless you're sitting in a rocking chair just picking the tune

and they ain't too well acquainted with the Stars and Stripes
but if you wanna hear Susanna
then they'll pick all night
they'll pick all night

cos 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 his one horse town
there's nothing to steal
cos there's nothing much around

sure is hell living in this one horse town
half a mile of Alabama mud bed ground
and I just can't wait to grow out of this one horse town
there's nothing to steal
cos there's nothing much around