No Shoestrings On Louise
Elton John
NO SHOESTRINGS ON LOUISE
Year: 1970
Album: ELTON JOHN
Writers: Elton John\ Bernie Taupin
Intro: F Bb F F Bb F
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Lady love rides a big red Cadillac
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Buys the hoedown show salt and beans
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Goes to church to pray for Lucifer
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She milked the male population clean
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So ride in line shake yourself by the hand
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Live your life inside a paper can
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But you'll never get to pick and choose
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She's bought you and sold you
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There ain't no shoestrings on Louise
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Come on down, come on down from the ladder
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Henry get your head, get your head out of them clouds
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What she wants is to go kissing on a swine herd
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You might as well kiss the boss man's cow
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So ride in line shake yourself by the hand
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Live your life inside a paper can
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But you'll never get to pick and choose
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She's bought you and sold you
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There ain't no shoestrings on Louise
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All those city women want to make us poor men
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And this land's got the worse for the worrying
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I got married at the early age of fourteen
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And I've been worrying about the way you'll be loving them
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So ride in line shake yourself by the hand
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Live your life inside a paper can
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But you'll never get to pick and choose
F C\E Dm
She's bought you and sold you
Dm F\C Bb Fm F Bb F
There ain't no shoestrings on Louise
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There ain't no shoestrings on Louise