Oldies And Guns

[ACP230]

I was coming out of the gun store the other day and found myself singing an old rock & roll song.

My son and I had seen a Kahr semi-auto Thompson, complete with 10 round drum magazine in the rack and were talking about it. My son has had the good fortune to have been around full auto firearms (although no Thompsons) for about half his life said, "an original Thompson would be better."

That's when I started singing,

"There's nothing like the real thing baby,
Nothin' like the real thing..."

Any oldies come to mind when you're around guns?

"The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" with muzzle loaders?

"Big Iron" by Marty Robbins while looking at cowboy action guns?

"Shotgun Boogie," by Tennessee Ernie Ford when fondling a nice double barrel?

 

[buy guns]

ive never heard of those songs


yes you are old

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

The theme tune from the old tv show Combat always comes into my head when I am with my Garand.

Course,the other day while walking through my neighbor's pasture the song Wildwood Flower came to mind....course,out here it's called "K weed"...

 

[Piney]

I think the men in white coats and big nets will be visiting you soon.

 

[Indy7373]

Has anyone here every heard the song about the headless tommy gunner? Don't remember what the song was called, but it was a good one.

 

[mustanger98]

ive never heard of those songs

yes you are old

I'm just going on 30 this month and I've heard all three of those and a lot more.

 

[ACP230]

It's "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner, " I think.
I've heard it somewhere, but it isn't one of my favorites.

 

[Hardtarget]

Heres three that come to mind...
Shotgun...Jr. Walker & the Allstars
Hey Joe...(where you goin' with that gun in your hand?)...Jimi Hendrix
Give Me Three Steps... .38 Special (?)
Mark.

 

[41mag]

Well,not while shooting but reading this thread has gotten a Martha Reeves song stuck in my head.


nowhere to run to,nowhere to hide...

 

[MikeK]

Well I've heard them all and own a few on vinyl and CD, including most of the tunes in the posts following the original.

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon (yes I have that one too). He has a few other good gun songs - Send Lawyers Guns and Money etc. Do a search and the rest of the titles will appear.

On occasion I do relate guns to songs. If they carry you away let me know and I'll sing you a song or bring you a gun.

Getting old isn't that bad as long as you can still remember old songs.

 

[CAS700850]

"Ballad of the Green Berets" anyone?

Of course, being a child of the 80's, the music of Miami Vice comes to mind.

But, as always, it comes back to Bond, James Bond. Why else would I have a PPK?

 

[Majic]

Who could forget the opening music of The Rifleman with Chuck Conners ripping a few quick shots off with that Winchester.

 

[armoredman]

"Gimme Three Steps" is done by Lynyrd Skynyrd, an incredibly ANTI group - if you doubt that, listen to thier song, "Saturday Night Special", and how they would like to dump all handguns into the sea....
I always thought the theme song of the pro Second Amendment group should be Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It!"

 

[4v50 Gary]

"I shot the Sheriff." As deputies we'd call into the radio station and askeed that it be dedicated to our coworkers at a certain post. Very naughty of us.

 

[TerryBob]

I dont know the name of it but I sometimes get the that crazy theme music from "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" going through my head while gathering my gun stuff to head to the range.

TerryBob

 

[tailgunner]

Ray Stevins "Please Mr. Custer"

Every damned mission.

 

[PMDW]

"Gimme Three Steps" is done by Lynyrd Skynyrd, an incredibly ANTI group - if you doubt that, listen to thier song, "Saturday Night Special", and how they would like to dump all handguns into the sea....

If it makes you feel better, that was old skynyrd. The guy that wrote it was killed in the plane crash.