Firearms in Song

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Isn't Skynard's "Saturday Night Special" actually about gun control?

Well hand guns are made for killin'
They ain't no good for nothin' else
And if you like to drink your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don't we dump 'em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some ole fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me

Sounds like gun control to me...
 
I love the Ray Charles / Willie Nelson duet of "Seven Spanish Angels," and then of course there's the Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun."
 
not sure this qualifies as music, but....shay with a guage and vanilla with a 9

gunshot rangs out like a bell
i grab my 9 all I hear is shells

fallin' on the concrete real fast
jump in the car, slam on the gas


did I really quote Vanilla Ice on an online forum?
 
Theres a ton of good ones, a couple not mentioned are a few more songs by hank jr, and also simple man by charlie daniels and i got rights by charlie.

I can think of a ton more but don't know the names or artists, and I ain't fixin to sing em to ya:)
 
Here's one of my favorites:

Company, always on the run
Destiny, oooh, and the rising sun
I was born, six gun in my hand
Behind the gun, I make my final stand
That's why they call me

Bad company,
Oh, I can't deny
Bad, Bad company
Till the day I die
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There is one song I learned from dad before I could ride a bike. From WWII, "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition". Dad was a Ranger medic who wound up military service treating combat shock at Presidio San Francisco and Mare Island. His other song was "coming in on a wing and a prayer"

blindhari
 
Steely Dan's "With a Gun".

In fact, every other (the odd numbered ones) album in their discography has a song relating to guns.

Then of course, there's that Viet Nam classic, 'Napalm Sticks to Kids". It's a real song, Google it.

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Awesome thread, hope it continues on for pages more! My first favorite is still my #1 favorite. "The Devil's Right Hand" written by Steve Earl but the Johnny Cash version is my favorite, if you haven't heard it you should just youtube it right now! My favorite part is that my first gun was a cap n ball colt, and my next was a peacemaker clone :D :cool: but I haven't shot any cheatin miners.

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About the time that Daddy left to fight the big war
I saw my first pistol in the general store
In the general store, when I was thirteen
Thought it was the finest thing I ever had seen

So l asked if I could have one when I grew up
Mama dropped a dozen eggs, she really blew up
She really blew up and I didn't understand
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand

My very first pistol was a cap and ball Colt
Shoot as fast as lightnin' but it loads a mite slow
Loads a mite slow and i soon found out
It can get you into trouble but it can't get you out
So then I went and bought myself a Colt 45
Called a peacemaker but I never knew why
Never knew why, I didn't understand
Cause Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
Never knew why, I didn't understand
Cause Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand

Well I get into a card game in a company town
Caught a miner cheating I shot the dog down
Shot the dog down, watched the dog fall
Never touched his holster, never had a chance to draw
The trial was in the morning and they drug me out of bed
Asked me how I pleaded, not guilty I said
Not guilty I said, you've got the wrong man
Nothing touched the trigger but the devil's right hand
Not guilty I said, you've got the wrong man
Nothing touched the trigger but the devil's right hand
the devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
Nothing touched the trigger but the devil's right hand


another one some of you might enjoy, is newer, called "The Machinegun Blues" by Social Distortion. The music video is pretty great, It's almost a short movie, as the intro is a few minutes long. It's pretty violent, I should mention that, but it doesn't exactly portray crime as having much potential for a bright future... you should probably youtube it.
 
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Johnny got up one morning; he went down to the company store
Got him a big box of bullets to fit into his .44
The store man said, "son, are you gonna work? you know you owe me too much to stop."
John said, "i got a little workin to do but I aint goin by your clock."

People said john was a slacker, cause he wouldnt fight in their war
A man wasnt much if he wouldnt fight back in 1940 and 4
The doctor said john was just too sick to go, but the people said that he was a coward
And one of the men makin fun of him was a fellow named milton howard

Milton was down at the cold spring, a-drinkin from a mason jar
He said, "john, you better get yourself to work or youre gonna fool around til you get fired."
John blew the dust from his old .44, put two holes in miltons head
When johnny walked off to get some more shootin done, that ol cold spring was a-runnin red

Next guy he met was a stigall boy, and the boy had a hammer in his hand
John said "son, you shouldve built yourself a box, cause youre a headed for the promised land."
Stigall fell down to his knees to pray, and he cried "lord, johnny please dont shoot!"
Before he got halfway to saying "amen", well old johnny shot him out of his boots

Tom T hall
 
cooldude14 said:
Choctaw Bingo by James McMurtry.
Bought a SKS rifle and a couple of case of that steel core ammo.
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"...with them Bear-Dan (Berdan) primers from some East Bloc nation that no longer needs 'em...

And a Desert Eagle that's one great big ol' pistol, I mean fifty caliber made by bad-a** Hebrews

And some surplus tracers for that Ol' BAR..."

That passage made this one of my favorite songs of all time.

BTW, it was part of the "Beer for my horses" soundtrack - a decent movie, made better with good performances by Toby Keith and Tom Skerritt, and an amusing couple of scenes with Ted Nugent.
 
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