What's your Favorite Handgun Song

[Hardtarget]

I'm not sure,but, the Beatles tune "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" might be talking about heroin addiction. The gun being the needle. Its warm from the way they "cook" the heroin. could be wrong.
Mark.

 

[RNB65]

Robert Johnson 32-20 blues

Jeez, you guys really know how to ruin a work day!

I popped onto a website to read the lyrics of 32-20 Blues. That, of course, resulted in my also reading lyrics to other Robert Johnson songs whilst I was there. Now I'm sitting here with nothing but sounds of Eric Clapton, Cream, and Led Zep running through my head and no chance at all of getting anything constructive done by lunch time.

Oh, well, I don't have any Robert Johnson with me. But I do have a couple of Elmore James CD's and an Albert King.

 

[DogBonz]

Santeria by Sublime

"Daddy's got a new 45"... whats not to like?

 

[Bongo45]

Warren Zevon:

Roland The (Headless) Thompson Gunner.

Jennie Needs A Shooter.


Bruce Cockburn:

If I Had A Rocket Launcher...

 

[Bongo45]

Just remembered,


.44
Howlin’ Wolf

I wore my .44 so long, it made my shoulder sore
I woke up this mornin’, wondered where did my baby go

 

[slow944]

My favorites include:

Jamies Gota Gun
Smugglers Blues
Saturday Night Special

 

[trashman]

"Ballad of a Self-Loading Pistol" by Bruce Springsteen. Off one of his albums of unreleased tracks from the last 30 years.

--Neill

 

[marksman13]

.45 by Shinedown
A Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Williams Jr

 

[onemangang]

Wasn't Zevon into handguns big time?
I think I heard where he was a .44 fan.
Anyway, we really lost something when he died.

 

[koja48]

"Bang" <slide> "Bang" (repeat chorus 7 more times).

 

[pistolman1974]

Here are the rap songs requested

"Bring the Yellow Tape" E-40
"9mm N*gga" Eight ball & MJG"
"Never Scared" Bone Crusher
"My Uzi weighs a ton" K.R.S. 1
"Welcome to Homicide" C.P.O

"I Shot the Sheriff" Bob Marley

 

[wooderson]

Somebody beat me to the Old 97's "The Other Shoe."

Second favorite would be Boogie Down Productions's "9mm Goes Bang"

 

[chipp]

does gimme 3 steps count?

 

[skinnyguy]

What? No CLAPTON? Where's "I Shot the Sherriff"?

#2 choice "Manhattan" Bob Seger

Shaky Davey's got a 12-guage in his hand
It's sawed off to the limit
He's got a vague plan

.......

The first one's birdshot
The next four are 00-buck
The last one's a slug
Just for good luck

 

[los]

Whatever song Cheney's [Attorney] friend was whistling moments before he got sprayed with bird shot.

 

[AVESguy]

99 Year Blues. A song popularized in the seventies by Hot Tuna on their album BURGERS (they didn't write it). Burgers is one of my favorite recordings of all time.

Well now give me my pistol man and three round balls
I'm gonna shoot everybody that I don't like at all
Like at all, Like at all
Like at all, Like at all
Gotta .38 special man and .45 frame
You know the thing don't miss 'cause I got dead aim
Got dead aim, got dead aim
Got dead aim, got dead aim
Well the world is a drag and my friends can't vote
Gonna make me a connection and score some dope
Go get high, go get high
Go get high, go get high



Their live version, which they still do, has a great section for guitar/bass solos.....

 

[Stinger1]

El Paso by Marty Robbins

RC

 

[Para1911]

Not handgun songs but "Choctaw Bingo" by Ray Wylie Hubbard, "Daddy's Farm" by Shooter Jennings and for the fathers out there "Cleaning This Gun" by Rodney Atkins.

 

[Stachie]

.45

 

[novaDAK]

This one's definately about handguns, but it's definately not my favorite either because you can't get much more anti-gun than this. Other than that I love the rest of their songs.
Lynyrd Skynyrd "Saturday Night Special"

Two feets they come a creepin
Like a black cat do
And two bodies are lyin naked
Creeper think he got nothin to lose
So he creeps into this house, yeah
And unlocks the door
And while a man reaching for his trousers
Shoots him full of .38 holes

(chorus)
Its a saturday night special
Got a barrel thats blue and cold
Aint no good for nothin
But put a man six feet in a hole

Big jims been drinkin whiskey
And playing poker on a losin night
Pretty soon, big jim starts a thinkin
Somebody been cheatin and lyin
So big jim commences to fightin
I wouldnt tell you no lie
And big jim done grab his pistol
Shot his friend right between the eyes

(chorus)

Hand guns are made for killin
Aint no good for nothin else
And if you like your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why dont we dump em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me

 

[peacemaker45]

Love and a .45, By Chris Knight
Devil's Right Hand, Cash
Choctaw Bingo, James McMurtry
Gun Love, ZZ Top, the all time collection of double entendres.

~~~Mat

 

[10X]

Ballad

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Gene Pitney

 

[The Dust Collector]

Beech Nut & a 45

Hank Williams Jr.'s "A Country Boy Can Survive" Great lyrics, Great song! I can relate to that.........

 

[TheWanderer]

Obviously for me, it's The Wanderer by U2 and Johnny Cash.

 

[jfernett119]

"Bad Company" by Bad Company

"Rebel souls, deserters we are called,
chose a gun and threw away the sword.
Now these towns, they all know our name,
six-gun sound is our claim to fame.
That's why they call us bad company,
that I can't deny.
Bad company 'til the day I die."

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