blackpowder themed songs

[Busyhands94]

anybody know of any blackpowder shooting themed songs? I love music about blackpowder and old battles in general, so here's one i like! Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Norton!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxB42cjHTGg&feature=channel_video_title
good stuff! those who are observant might notice a line from that song is part of my signature!

We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down.
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind!

classic!

 

[damoc]

Miranda lambert blackpowder and lead

http://artists.letssingit.com/miranda-lambert-lyrics-gunpowder-and-lead-sm7btbl

oops gunpowder not blackpodwer its still a good song

 

[mykeal]

Black powder and gunpowder are the same thing. Smokeless powder is technically not gunpowder.

 

[Busyhands94]

that is a great song! who knows, that woman could have been shooting blackpowder shotshells loaded with a bunch of .36 or .32 balls she cast herself i think smokeless is still gunpowder, it's a powder and used in guns isn't it?

 

[junkman_01]

Johnny Horton

Busyhands94 wrote:

Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Norton

Levi, the man's name is HORTON.

I just looked at the video you linked and all I can say is the person who uploaded it didn't do a very good job on the lyrics. They can't spell Mississippi, they don't include all the words and the British ran through the briars (not wires) and the bushes (not bush's). Other than all that I loved it!

 

[Busyhands94]

sorry, hit the wrong key and i should have read my post first! LOL! that guy didn't get all the lyrics perfect but it's still a great song!

 

[kBob]

Leslie Fish

Black powder and alcohol

".....you can make 'em if ya just know how, listen kids to what I'm tellin' you now...."

She is a bit much for some folks as she also does such as "No High Ground"

".....up to the dusty attic, out with the trusty gun, the lawyer and the law book only go so far, sooner or later, push gotta come to shove, don't think that it can't happen where you are..."

The Science Fiction community has some interesting folks in it.

I like SF Speculative Literature I liked the first few of Eric Flint's 1632 books. What would you do if your rural W.Virginia current village got dumped in southern Germany in 1632?

Leslie Fish is what is called a Flik singer. Filk is folksongs for SF fans. BP and Alcohol has the propotions and ingredients for BP in it and some basicdistilation as "...booze can clean your cuts or run your car, you can make it anywhere you are...."

-kBob

 

[45-70 Ranger]

junkman 01,

Funny thing, I still have the 45RPM record of that tune that I bought new way back when. Thought you, most of all, would get a kick outta that one

Marty Robbins did some good tunes on western stuff too...

 

[Jaymo]

What would I do if my rural W. Virginia town got dumped in Southern Germany in 1632?
I'd grab a good beer and some brats and kraut <deleted>
J/K. I'd drink good beer and eat good kraut and wurst. <deleted>

Perhaps I'd even try to purchase a good hauswehr and a nice wheel lock pistol.
Hauswehr is a big, home defense knife. BIG knife. BBBIIIIIIIGGGGGG knife.

And eat LOTS of Bavarian kraut and potato salad. I'd make it my mission to eat and drink all the good German food and beer I could consume.

 

[pohill]

Marty Robbins - BIG IRON ON HIS HIP. It must have been a BP cartridge gun but I always wondered what model? Great song.

 

[Jaymo]

Marty Robbins-Big Iron. Forgot about that one. Not sure what hogleg he was referencing. My guess is that it was big and perhaps powerful.
Walker, maybe?
It's big.
It's iron.
Though I think you'd have to wear belt and suspenders, else it would drag your pants down, then your enemies would laugh at you, as is the only proper response to someone wearing their pants down below their crotch.

 

[pohill]

I don't think a Walker was a fast drawing gun. Maybe an 1860 .44 or, if later, the Colt Peacemaker.

 

[Jaymo]

I was joking about the Walker.

 

[Busyhands94]

maybe it's an 51' Colt or a steel framed Remington

 

[Lunie]

Marty Robbins, El Paso: "I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle, I feel the bullet go deep in my chest"

Of course Johnny Horton had several songs I like... BoNO, Sink the Bismarck, Comanche, Jim Bridger, Johnny Reb, etc.

Speaking of Hortons, I really like this one sung by Bobby Horton. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rci-dF1bszo
Some eye candy slides, I really liked the pair o' Colts at ~1:37?

 

[txapacheguy]

Here is an old Johnny Cash song on the topic... The Last Gunfighter Balad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_N4cJ0VcDE

 

[arcticap]

Tchaikovsky's Overture of 1812

The entire Overture of 1812 is at least 16 minutes in length and there are many Youtube video versions of it, many including live cannons. However they don't really show the story about what the music depicts. But after reviewing many, I did find one that visually shows what the music is all about, the French defeated by the victorious Russians in epic battles. All that's really missing is most of the beginning of the piece and the many, many booming cannons that we're all use to hearing accompanying some versions of this music. There's plenty of other videos to watch that include various amounts of live cannon fire, using both modern and antique guns. But the one selected below is one of the most visually exciting videos that I could find. It's truly classical black powder music that most all of us are already very familiar with as explained down below.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPYTF1WVqIY&feature=related

The Truth Behind the 1812 Overture

For the past 30+ years, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture has been performed during countless United States' Independence Day celebrations, due largely in part to an exhilarating performance by the Boston Pops in 1974, conducted by Arthur Fiedler. In an effort to increase ticket sales, Fiedler choreographed fireworks, cannons, and a steeple-bell choir to the overture, as Tchaikovsky himself called for the use of cannons in his score. Many American's believe that Tchaikovsky's overture represents the USA's victory against the British Empire during the War of 1812, however, Tchaikovsky actually tells the story of Napoleon's retreat from Russia in 1812. In fact, Tchaikovsky even references the French national anthem La Marsillaise and Russia's God Save the Czar within the music. The USA was quick to adopt the piece, as it found itself lacking in the patriotic song department.

http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/romanticperiod/qt/Tchaikovskys-1812-Overture.htm

Now here are two one minute videos showing some flash and cannon smoke for the finale in front of live audiences. Both are very short and fun to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSyOumYb0wY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4T5IBB4JQo&feature=related

 

[arcticap]

The Star-Spangled Banner

Let's not forget our National Anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner".
There's quite a long convoluted history behind the original poem and music that was married into song and how it all came about to eventually become our National Anthem which is detailed in Wikipedia. But the bottom line is that:

On November 3, 1929, Robert Ripley drew a panel in his syndicated cartoon, Ripley's Believe it or Not!, saying "Believe It or Not, America has no national anthem".[9] In 1931, John Philip Sousa published his opinion in favor, stating that "it is the spirit of the music that inspires" as much as it is Key’s "soul-stirring" words. By a law signed on March 3, 1931 by President Herbert Hoover, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner

[which was]....116 years after it was first written.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/spangle.htm

See the original lyrics of Francis Scott Key's poem "In Defense of Fort McHenry" composed in September, 1814.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/spangle.htm

 

[kBob]

Darn this blasted time out function! yet again a beautiful rambling "kBob Post" (TM) got eaten by the either!

Look Folks in the US darn sure knew what the 1812 overture was about and it was quite popular before the Pops did it in 1974. Ten years earlier my ELEMENTARY SCHOOL band did it and knew what it was about and it was meantioned in the program. In 1969 it was VERY popular for high scholl bands to do football game half time shows with , my highschool JROTC honor Guard joined our band in a presentation featuring M-1 Grands firing blanks into galvanized trash cans to do a pretty good cannon noise.

What is this need some people have to make folks in the US out to be savages banging rocks together in the wilderness?

Next you will try to tell us that the Lone Ranger TV theme song is actually about some Euro guy fighting injustice with a crossbow instead of blazing Colts and without a faithful Indian companion to boot!

Now back to songs,

"...then one day he was shootin' at some food. when up from the ground came a bubblin' crude. Oil that is. Black Gold, Texas Tea....." Accompanying the first line referenced is Jed shooting a kentucky flinter in the opening theme of "the Beverly Hillbillys"

-kBob

 

[junkman_01]

Kbob,

I think you're wrong about ole Jed Clampett. He didn't use a flinter, he used what looks like a trapdoor Springfield. Makes sense since the movie companies always use cartridge guns that shoot blanks.

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[madcratebuilder]

Johnny Cash did a song about the "smell of the black powder smoke and the blood and the beer". Can't remember the title.

 

[Legionnaire]

A couple of songs performed by Schooner Fare might fit the bill:
Barrett's Privateers (Stan Rogers did it originally)
Powder Monkey

But we're talking naval guns, not sidearms.

 

[J-Bar]

How about "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"?

 

[Legionnaire]

^^^

 

[Robert]

"Sticks That Made Thunder"
The Steeldrivers