Lyrics to
One Horse Town

This version of One Horse Town was released by Elton John in 1976.

Visit the Elton John Lyrics profile at Decade Lyrics - it has the One Horse Town lyrics as well as the rest of the songs by Elton John.

Here's more interesting things in songs and lyrics tied to Elton John or about the 1970s in general.

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

---

Want more lyrics and songs by Elton John?

Elton John has released many songs over the years besides One Horse Town. Elton John released songs from 1969 to 2004 spanning across albums like Empty Sky, Tumbleweed Connection, Elton John, Madman Across The Water, 11/17/2010, Honky Chateau, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player), Caribou, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy, Rock Of The Westies, Blue Moves, A Single Man, Victim Of Love, 21 At 33, The Fox, Jump Up!, Too Low For Zero, Breaking Hearts, Ice On Fire, Leather Jackets, Reg Strikes Back, Sleeping With The Past, The One, Duets, Reg Dwight's Piano Goes Pop, Made In England, The Big Picture, One Night Only, Songs From The West Coast, and Peachtree Road. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Elton John.

If you're a fan of lyrics from 1970s songs looking for more songs from 1976 or the 1970s overall, you've come to the right place!

About Lyrics and One Horse Town by Elton John

The lyrics to One Horse Town are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Elton John used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to One Horse Town have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Elton John and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to One Horse Town by Elton John. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to One Horse Town" means the words set to the music of One Horse Town, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elton John. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to One Horse Town and the lyrics to One Horse Town are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elton John who came here looking just for the lyrics to One Horse Town, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

More Songs & Lyrics by Elton John

Visit our Elton John profile for more Elton John songs, lyrics & info!

)