"Saturday Night Special" is a song written by Larry Bastian and Dewayne Blackwell, and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty.
[1] The song's title refers to the pejorative slang for an inexpensive handgun, which a young man purchases at a pawn shop.
Before he is able to leave, he overhears the pawn dealer cruelly and callously deal with a young, distraught woman trying to hock her wedding ring ("Seven dollars, nothin' more!"
The pawn dealer, knowing that a mistake in dealing at this point could cost him his life, relents and gives the woman a much larger sum – $2,000 – for the ring.
In the end, the young man and newly divorced woman decide to run away to Texas to start a new life.