City dwellers grabbed the plots up, built shotgun shacks, forgot about them.

Nila Castile's house, like so many others, was a narrow gray shotgun shack.

He's locked himself in there and there's no other way out of this shotgun shack.

No one would want to take a stroll through block after block of shotgun shacks on 12-foot stilts.

He grew up in a Pennsylvania coal town in a shotgun shack.

Beginning in the mid-1990s, the shotgun shacks were torn down, with townhouses replacing them.

Three-quarters of the residents are black, many still living in sharecropper's tumbledown shotgun shacks.

"But to live in, it's a shotgun shack."

Those little shotgun shacks were tiny, and you were just about on top of each other anyway.

The first line of the song is "And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack".