Songs about guns?

[lightman]

Marty Robbins
Big Iron

This was the first one that came to mind.

Also,what about "I never picked Cotton" by Roy Clark? "I had everything money could bring and I took it all with a gun".

Or Ringo by Loren Green? "Clutching a sixgun in his hand".

 

[777TRUTH]

Tommy Gun - The Clash

 

[Mk-211]

Nirvana, In Bloom.

 

[Jonah77]

Some punk with a shotgun killed young Danny Bailey In cold blood, in the lobby of a downtown motel.......

 

[Jonah77]

I'll take a risk on some controversy with this one. In light of our current world situation it seems pretty fitting though.....
Mr. Robert Zimmerman 1963

 

[Mk-211]

Pantera, Cowboys from hell.

RIP Vinnie and Dimebag.

 

[MacAR]

One of my favorite "gun songs":



It don't get a lot of air time anymore, but I've always liked it since my very first pistol really was a cap and ball Colt navy six.

Mac

 

[CapnMac]

"The Gringo Pistolero" by the late Allen Wayne Damron.

I'm surprised none of you Texans had suggested this one..?

Did not find that one until today:


Been digging for some half-remembered ones--but searching music & lyrics winds up a serious rabbit hole

 

[DDeegs]

Dont know how to link it,
Ghost busters by gun sync
Not about guns but with them

 

[slicksleeve]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JKBZ7IuMCr0&pp=ygUObG92ZSBhbmQgYSA0NSA=
Love and a .45. One will kill you, one will keep you alive.

 

[jmr40]

Pretty sure Black Betty wasn't a gun song. A 1933 version sang by a prison chain gang.

Original Black Betty - YouTube

My personal favorite. Tennessee Ernie Ford singing shotgun boogie.

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Shotgun Boogie - YouTube

Another good one. Steve Earle, A pistol is the devils right hand.

Steve Earle - The Devil's Right Hand - YouTube

 

[Curious2]

Big Iron for the win here. And what guitar playing there! Also, one about guns and a bad deal in Mexico: " Then came the last days in May" by Blue Oyster Cult.
Dark, but pretty good.

Big Iron all the way, good ol' Marty Robbins!

 

[jmr40]

Bob Dylans "Knocking on Heavens Door" was written just for this scene in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid".

Knocking on heaven's door.. Bob Dylan original version 1973 - YouTube

Full version of the song

Knockin' on Heaven's Door - YouTube

 

[21H40]

Dont know how to link it,
Ghost busters by gun sync
Not about guns but with them

I hadn’t seen anything from gun sync before. Fun.

Lots of Steve Earl fans!

 

[MutinousDoug]

Oldy
Johnny Winter: Dallas
Goin' back to Dallas, take my razor and my gun
There's so much shiat in Texas, I'm bound to step in some

 

[Enfielder]

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Hoyt Axton, Mr. WInchester's Gun.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

By thew way, this has been done before:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/favorite-song-lyrics-mentioning-a-firearm.860541/
There's even a Haiku version:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/gun-related-haiku-thread.881358/
DOn't know why they're closed though.

 

[Hookeye]

Gal singing Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.
War footage/bodies, so age restricted.

 

[T_Walker]

"I got a shotgun, a rifle and a four-wheel drive
And a country boy can survive"
HWJ

 

[Plano11]

Pantera, Cowboys from hell.

RIP Vinnie and Dimebag.

great song.

 

[P5 Guy]

Fred Eaglesmith - Time To Get A Gun - YouTube

I Shot Your Dog - YouTube

 

[Mk-211]

IRON MAIDEN, The Trooper.

Up the Irons!

 

[777TRUTH]

The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

 

[Bcwitt]

FYI, most of these songs & "artists" are highly anti gun in meaning.