Top 10 Gun Songs??

[buy guns]

after reading the gun movie thread i thought i would start a gun song list. lets keep it to songs where a gun or gun is the main theme. ill start:

talib kweli - gun music

nas - got yourself a gun

alabama 3 - woke up this morning <- the soprano's theme song

i cant think of any more right now

 

[4v50 Gary]

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. The original piece with artillery complement. OK, Beethoven's "Wellington's Victory" had some artillery and it was first.

 

[R.H. Lee]

I like "Pancho & Lefty" and "Out in the West Texas Town of El Paso"

 

[ocabj]

"Me and My Girlfriend" by Makaveli (aka 2Pac aka Tupac Shakur)

Track 10 off of "The 7 Day Theory" album. On the surface it sounds like he's talking about his girlfriend, but if you really listen to it, his 'girlfriend' is an analogy for his gun.

 

[MikeJ]

"Big Iron"

 

[Jake]

Hank Jr. "A Country Boy can Survive"

 

[iluvG.R.I.T.S]

Saturday night special by Lynard Skynard

 

[Quantrill]

"Bang Bang", Sammy Davis Jr. from the movie, "Robin and the Seven Hoods". This is where Davis dances and sings with a Thompson sub-machine gun while shooting up a saloon. Quantrill

 

[Ginger]

How about "Trigger Happy" by Weird Al from the "Off the Deep End" cd?

 

[Foe[H]ammer]

Slayer - Hallowed Point
Marty Robins - El Paso
Grateful Dead - Mexicali Blues
Jimmy Hendricks - Hey, Joe
DMX - ATF
The Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Lorenna Mckennitt - Highwayman (a totally different song than "Highwayman" by Chris, Willie and Waylon)
Cypress Hill - Sawed-off Shotgun
Peter, Paul and Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon (somebody will get this I hope)

Not all "about guns) per se but guns were a major part of the stories.

 

[Thumper]

Saturday Night Special? Top ten Anti songs, maybe:

"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"

Skynyrd blew it on that one.

I vote for Big Iron, too.

 

[iluvG.R.I.T.S]

Give me three steps thats the one i was thinking of

 

[J. Garand]

Otto Wood the Bandit. by Doc Watson

"He was a man who would not run, for he always toted a .44 gun.
He loved the women, and he hated the law.
And he just didn't take anybody's jaw"...

forget all that hippie rock, you boys get you some bluegrass.

 

[roscoe]

Roland the Headless THompson Gunner - Warren Zevon

 

[Jake]

Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Boothill"

 

[Cosmoline]

"16 Shells from a .30'06" is one of my favorite Tom Waits songs. Pretty weird, but fun.

"My Rifle, My Pony and Me" from the "Rio Bravo" soundtrack is excellent.

 

[CrudeGT]

Montgomery Gentry "While the World Goes Down the Drain"

"give me a .308 and shotgun, and a galon of homemade wine"

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Gringo Pistolero by Allen Wayne Damron.He's a folk singer outa Texas.Good stuff plus he's a hunter and a shooter.

 

[mcneill]

Long Black Rifle (old folk ballad)

Most of Marty Robbins' "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs"
El Paso
Big Iron
Running Gun
San Angelo
Mr. Shorty
Fastest Gun Around
Tall Handsome Stranger

Don't Take Your Guns to Town (Johnny Cash)

Seven Spanish Angels (Willie Nelson and Ray Charles)


Jim

 

[Ed]

Hair Trigger Colt .44 by Chris Ledoux

 

[mnrivrat]

Pistol Pack'n Mamma !

A bit older than those who be still wet behind the ear !

 

[buy guns]

d-block - two guns up

d12 - pistol pistol

eminem - we as americans <- about rkba protecting yourself

nas - they shootin

notorious big - machine gun funk

 

[oldgold]

" Soak Up The Sun" = Sheryl Crow

Last line is
Got my .45 on so I can rock on.

 

[Ant Mod]

How could no one say "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine.

Terror rains drenchin', quenchin' tha thirst of tha power dons
That five sided fist-a-gon
Tha rotten sore on tha face of mother earth gets bigger
Tha triggers cold empty ya purse

Rally round tha family! With a pocket full of shells
They rally round tha family! With a pocket full of shells
They rally round tha family! With a pocket full of shells
They rally round tha family! With a pocket full of shells

 

[Ktulu]

I don't remember the name but it went something like this:

"...just about then the door was kicked in
and there stood a man a covered with sin
He said that's my woman
I said that's no lie
And I shot a hole in him as big as the sky

I got my Colt .45
Right by my side
And I'm the California Kid
I hope you're quite prepared to die"