Bubba Shot The Jukebox......

[12 Volt Man]

Twenty degrees and the hockey game’s on
Nobody cares they are way too far gone
Screamin’ boat drinks, something to keep ’em all warm

This mornin’, I shot six holes in my freezer
I think I got cabin fever
Somebody sound the alarm

I’d like to go where the pace of life’s slow
Could you beam me somewhere mr. scott?
Any ol’ place here on earth or in space
You pick the century and I’ll pick the spot

Boat Drinks. -Jimmy Buffett

 

[mustanger98]

asked if he ever heard of Michael Martin Murphy, The Sons of the San Jaquin or Riders in the Sky? I made him happy again.

A local radio station (95.3 the range) plays lots of old and new cowboy music.

We're kinda getting away from gun-related songs with this, but don't forget about Red Steagall and Don Edwards. And Chris LeDoux, before his passing. Not having heard all their material, I couldn't say how much gun-related stuff they've done, but most all their's is cowboy. Which reminds me of the notes that came with "Rhymes of the Renegades"... that not all cowboys were outlaws but mosts outlaws had been cowboys. We generally imagine cowboys as being armed, but prowess with a gun is not a pre-requisite to animal husbandry. Had those outlaws stuck with ranch work, they'd have probably stayed out of the kind of trouble they were found in.

 

[modifiedbrowning]

Big Iron by Marty Robbins
Mike Ness of Social Distortion does a great cover on his album
"Under the Influences"

 

[Crosshair]

The song "Pepper" by the band Butthole Surfers, one of my favorite songs. Here is the third verse of the song.

Another Mikey took a knife
While arguing in traffic
Flipper died a natural death
He caught a nasty virus
Then there was the ever-present
Football player rapist
They were all in love with dyin'
They were doing it in Texas

Polly caught a bullet
But it only hit his leg
Well it should have been a better shot
And got him in the head
They were all in love with dyin'
They were drinking from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain​

 

[Bama61]

There are also a couple of war songs that were set at different times; different wars.

Glenn Cambell-Galveston

John Michael Montgomery-Letters From Home

Both of these songs mention soldiers with their rifles. The writers could have left the mention of guns out and nobody would have noticed, but the did include them.

Bama61

 

[Randy in Arizona]

Reba Mcentire - The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia

The Georgia patrol was making their rounds
So he fired a shot just to flag em down
And a big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said
Why’d you do it?

And that’s one body that’ll never be found
You see little sister don’t miss when she aims her gun

Reba come back!! Bert needs you!

 

[hellinpetticoats]

mustanger98, yup. That would be Michael Martin Murphy. I guess I have most of his stuff. Love the old cowboy songs and old cowboy values where justice was swift and final and the good guys always won the fight....even if they did have 10 rounds in their six-shooters!

Double Maduro, sounds like you and mustanger98 ought to consider Cowboy Action Shooting. It sure is fun and you get to always be the good guy with lots of lead going down range.

Happy trails....Hellin Petticoats, SASS #14120, SBSS #159, NRA, ANJPRC, SAS

 

[MountainPeak]

"Bubba Shot The Jukebox" created the same amount of death as "We ARE THE World" saved. All without having to raise my hands, sway, and pretend to be helping out someone!

 

[mustanger98]

Double Maduro, sounds like you and mustanger98 ought to consider Cowboy Action Shooting. It sure is fun and you get to always be the good guy with lots of lead going down range.

hellinpetticoats, I don't know about Double Maduro, but I have shot a couple of local CAS matches... a guy in my local gun club puts them on. I've also been to Mule Camp as a spectator, but that was 1999 and 2000. I had a good time in all cases. However, the storyline for one match I shot was "Black Bart Goes Straight... To Blazes". I really enjoyed going through the vendors at Mule Camp.

I do not own a '98 Mustang. 1998 was the year I first got on the internet. If somebody's read Will James' books, they know what a "mustanger" is or was back then. I shot CAS under the "mustanger" handle.

 

[Double Maduro]

hellinpetticoats,

Double Maduro, sounds like you and mustanger98 ought to consider Cowboy Action Shooting. It sure is fun and you get to always be the good guy with lots of lead going down range.

I've thought about it, I have the '97 Winchester, but can't afford a good lever action and a couple of SAA's or clones right now.

I have the hat, and I know a real good holster maker. so who knows.

DM

 

[Tried'nTrue]

John Michael Montgomery-Letters From Home

I love that song. The simplicity of it is truly heartbreaking. The first time I heard it, there were 2 details in the song that drew it to me: the mention of the muddy boots and the soldier "picking up his rifle and going on". Those 2 details painted quite the poignant word picture. It seemed I could nearly feel the everday monotony and trauma that life in Iraq would be.

 

[gremlin_bros]

Hank JR.
I've got rights
country boy can survive
and i fought the law

 

[Kim]

Hank Jr. ---- Gonna go huntin tonight. Now am I weird but that to me is a sexy song.

 

[Parruthead]

Shees almost 2 pages and not a mention of Johnny Horton.!!

When its Springtime in Alaska
Battle of New Orleans
Sinking of the Bismark

 

[mbs357]

Bad Company.
\m/

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix
Down by the River by Neil Young
And my personal favorite, Desperado by Alice Cooper

Desperado

I'm a gambler
And I'm a runner
But you knew that
When you layed down

I'm a picture of
Ugly stories
I'm a killer and
I'm a clown

Step into the street by sundown
Step into your last goodbye
You're a target just by living
Twenty dollars will make you die

I wear lace
And I wear black leather
My hands are lightning
Upon my gun

My shots are clean
And my shots are final
My shots are deadly
And when it's done

You're as stiff as my smoking barrel
You're as dead as a desert night
You're a notch
And I'm a legend
You're at peace
And I must hide

Tell me where the hell I'm going
Let my bones fall in the dust
Can't you hear that ghost that's calling?
As my Colt begins to rust
In the dust

I'm a killer
I'm a clown
I'm a priest
That's gone to town

 

[gaston_45]

I can't believe no one mentioned Trace Adkin's Rough and Ready!!

Last lines of the song as it's fading out...

"What're you lookin at??"
" Yeah that's a real gun in that gun rack!!"
" No I don't got a permit for it!!! You got a permit to ask stupid questions like that??"

I think I heard he had actually been shot by an ex wife or girlfriend and he still fully endorses gun ownership. Nothing about him or his music is anti gun.

 

[walking arsenal]

"Another one bites the dust" -Queen

 

[Kim]

Walking Arsenal=========== Oh goodness Another one bites the dust. Now this will sound like sick medical joking but, when I was training in Emergency Medicine I remember the first Code Blue in the ER that did not turn out well. My attending physician(one of the few cool and good ones I had) come in with a boom box and blasted that song to us. It broke the ice for all us green physicians. I know sounds bad I guess.

 

[Twycross]

Tracy Byrd & Mark Chesnutt: A Good Way To Get On My Bad Side

'Politician on my TV,
Says he's only looking out for me
Says he knows what the poor man knows in the long run
But every year he gives hisself a raise
With a chunk of every buck I make,
Now he's talkin' like he wants to take my shotgun...'

 

[nvshooter]

Anti-gun songs

The one by Sonny and Cher, "Bang Bang," I think it's called.

Bang bang
I shot you down
Bang bang
You hit the ground
Bang bang
That awful sound
Bang bang
My baby shot me down...


Jimi Hendrix had one, too:

Hey, Joe
Where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
I'm goin' downtown to shoot my old lady
You know, I caught her messin' 'round with another man

 

[CJ]

Bohemian Rhapsody

Not exactly in the best light...

"Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he’s dead,"

 

[Bama61]

Willie Nelson and Ray Charles-Seven Spanish Angels

Bama61

 

[spooney]

dracphelan, 95.3 barely comes in where I live but anytime I am south of the Red the radio gets changed directly to preset number 5. I love the Range.

Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash is my favorite gun related song.

Also Robert Earl Keen does a few gun related songs, Road goes on forever, Mr Wolf and Mamabear, Jesse with the Long Hair, I know there are others those were just the first three that popped into my head.

 

[ron8903]

Ruby dont take your love to town

Kenny Rogers