"I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)" | ||||
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Single by Elton John | ||||
from the album Rock of the Westies | ||||
B-side | "Grow Some Funk of Your Own" | |||
Released | January 12, 1976 | |||
Recorded | June-July 1975 | |||
Genre | Soft Rock | |||
Length | 5:28 | |||
Label |
MCA (US) DJM (UK) |
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Writer(s) | Elton John, Bernie Taupin | |||
Producer(s) | Gus Dudgeon | |||
Elton John singles chronology | ||||
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"I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)" is a song on British pop singer Elton John's 1975 album Rock of the Westies.
The song's lyrics compare the shooting of Jesse James by James' outlaw-partner Robert Ford to Taupin's failed marriage to his first wife Maxine Feibelman, of "Tiny Dancer" fame. The song reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1976, but failed to chart in the singer's native United Kingdom.
A live version, recorded in England in May 1977 with just Elton on piano and Ray Cooper on percussion, was released by MCA Records on the To Be Continued... boxed set.