(原詩)

Now, it was just like
Frankie and Johnny
And it was just like Stagger Lee
Dolly Summers was a simple girl
From a mid-west family
With a stucco home
And her own Mustang
And a charge account at Sears
She had everything
That a girl could want
To live happy for the rest of her years

But the thing
That she wanted most of all
Was the thing that she had lost
To the arms of
A downtown black jack hustler
By the name of Candy Floss
They'd slipped town
On a late night train
Heading for the west
Dolly slipped
Behind the wheel of her mustang
With a piece between her breast

She put a pistol
In her shoulder holster
She took her car up from Santa Fe
Yesterday morning
She was washing dishes
Now she's hunting down a runaway
Don't judge a man by a misdemeanor
You may be sorry
When his light goes out
Don't put that pistol
In your shoulder holster
You can never, never tell
If the Law's about

If it seemed just like a movie
Or a night of bad TV
They should have had a picture
Of Dolly's face
As she drove across the country
With daggers drawn for her fallen man
An venom in her heart
It was nearly dawn
When she caught them up
Making out in a picnic park

But the thing that shook her rigid
As she fumbled for her gun
Was the state of the man
That she'd married once
And thought of as the only one
And as she looked back on the chances
That she'd passed up at home
Well, she quietly dumped pistol
In a ditch
And she headed home alone

She put a pistol
In her shoulder holster
She took her car up from Santa Fe
Yesterday morning
She was washing dishes
Now she's hunting down a runaway
Don't judge a man by a misdemeanor
You may be sorry
When his light goes out
Don't put that pistol
In your shoulder holster
You can never, never tell
If the Law's about

You can never, never tell
If the Law's about
You can never, never tell
If the Law's about
You can never, never tell
If the Law's about
You can never, never tell
If the Law's about
You can never, never tell
If the Law's about
You can never, never tell
If the Law's about
You can never, never tell
If the Law's about
You can never, never tell
If the Law's about