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Back in the 19th century 
On southern US land
They built a simple kind of house
And many still do stand

The people call them shotgun house'
From

Hold your ground, we are fine 
Proud of it, but they wanna tear it down 
This shotgun house with open doors 
Memories and a shotgun house 
5 or 6,

my million-dollar freak, I let the water clean the sand out her sandals
Came a long way from trappin' out a shotgun house in Alabama, passing eagles

Coalmine

Sara Evans

Real Fine Place

2005

Shotgun houses, shanty shacks
Countin' those ties on the railroad track
Thirty-four more, it's almost time
To see my baby walking out of that

keep your shotgun in house
Right back we're we began

You say things I never say
Ok, Ill hear anyway
How do you explain anything
Might mean much

gonna tell ya a story bout this cat
His name was Dirty
And uh, he lived down the street from me
Second house, shotgun house
You can check this out okay

Move

Luke Bryan

Kill the Lights

2015

Your mama packed y'all up and moved you to the south
Packed a U-Haul cross a one-tree yard to a tin roof shotgun house
You didn't know nobody, didn't

store I ain't have no cheddar
Shotgun house ain't have no exit
Fresh out the county I ain't have no weapon
Straight from the block can't stop my blessings

John Doe No. 24

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Stones in the Road

1994

of the Great Big Muddy 
Where the shotgun houses stand 
I am seven years old and I feel my daddy 
Reach out for my hand
 
While I drew breath no one missed

bring that shit, bet I flush him out
Uptown livin', got that call, said he at his grandma's house

Shotguns out, at that shotgun house, boom, he off

grew up
In a shotgun house
Back street and the slums, only one way out
Uncle went to jail and the felons fell out
Been down 14 because he wouldn't sell

Hussle marathon
Shooting dice
Shotgun house with the cameras on
Bet a thousand dollars, 80 grand
Get your gamble on
Me and Ron turned the trap
House

quiet, when his horse stopped still in the night
I guess every now and then he the silent type 

From a ramshackle shotgun house we heard a woman just

Memphis

Clay Crosse

A Different Man

2000

Union Avenue
And it breaks that southern lady's heart in two

There's an old black man sittin' out front of a shotgun house
And on the other side

(no)
Shotgun, haunted house, whole clique hog tied
Gucci Mane shotter, I'ma start a bonfire

man shot down
I'm from Martin Luther King
Respect it it's holy ground
Who'd have thought a nigga
Out a shotgun house
Would ever drive a car with a angel

a shotgun house, part of the recipe, yea.

Raised by a village
Straight off the muscle
Son of a queen
Son of a hustla
Born by the river like I'm Sam Cooke

that rain

Damn the block is cold
Use to heat the house with the stove
Momma hit the sto for the groceries with her food stamps
6 kids ina shotgun house

twenty
These shotgun houses have committed an unruly suicide
They've turned themselves inside out, trying to be a home
In my hood
Here they come with

job and no money for school
Cross the street, people lock their doors
Is it a crime to be black and poor

Shotgun house, dirt road scene
Black and white

limitless
I’m reppin'
For the
Shotgun houses
Nigga
The tenements
Tryin to give
My young niggas
Keys
To staying innocent
Flamboyant gangsters
Get caught

Smuggling salt and sugar 
Whiskey underneath the floor 
Shotgun house dripping water 
Try not to renew the lease 
Caught a mouse in a bottle 
Sold him for

Dom and B.I.Z gaining prominence
Blazing the lane of an optimist, yeah
Shotgun houses and cemeteries
The streets of Mississippi where so many dreams are

Shotgun House on a southern street
It’s hot as hell taste that heat

I should be down 
But I’m smiling

And I wake up with a sense of grace
Even in