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Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, 1973
Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
A heavy, funky piano rocker with a horn section from Sir Elton. In this song, a man regrets his wife, who left him a year ago. The music is rollicking, but the lyrics aren't Taupin's best (and he was always much more of a painter of images than a wordsmith): I mean, "You aimed to please me / Cooked black-eyed peas me." No, that won't do. That's not mention the women being passed around hand to hand. And this guy whines he can't get by in life without a wife to pick his crops and get him drunk? No wonder she left.
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