Favorite song lyrics mentioning a firearm.

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I'm a good three pounds of cold blue steel
Shoot even better than the way I feel

Steel Drivers - Peacemaker

Can't believe that hasn't been posted.
 
Sunny Sunday- Joni Mitchell


She pulls the shade
It's just another sunny Sunday
She dodges the light like Blanche DuBois
Bright colors fade away on such a sunny Sunday
She waits for the night to fall
Then she points a pistol through the door
And she aims at the streetlight
While the freeway hisses
Dogs bark as the gun falls to the floor
The streetlight's still burning
She always misses
But the day she hits
That's the day she'll leave
That one little victory, that's all she needs
She pulls the shade
It's just another sunny Monday
She waits for the night to fall
 


Shotgun Boogie (Tennessee Ernie Ford)

There it stands in the corner with the barrel so straight
I looked out the winder and over the gate
The big fat rabbits are jumpin' in the grass
Wait 'til they hear my old shotgun blast
Shotgun boogie, I done saw your track
Look out Mr.Rabbit when I cock my hammer back
Well, over on the ridge is a scaly bark
Hickory nuts so big you can see 'em in the dark
The big fat squirrels, they scratch and they fight
I'll be on that ridge before daylight
With a shotgun boogie, all I need is one shot
Look out bushy tails, tonight you'll be in the pot
Well, I met a pretty gal, she was tall and thin
I asked her what she had, she said, "A fox four ten"
I looked her up and down, said, "Boy, this is love"
So we headed for the brush to shoot a big fat dove
Shotgun boogie, boy, the feathers flew
Look out Mr.Dove when she draws a bead on you
I sat down on a log, took her on my lap
She said wait a minute bud, you got to see my pap
He's gotta sixteen gauge choked down like a rifle
He don't like a man that's gonna trifle
Shotgun boogie, draws a bead so fine
Look out big boy, he's loaded all the time
Well, I called on her pap like a gentleman oughter
He said, "No brush hunter's gonna get my daughter"
He cocked back the hammer right on the spot
When the gun went off I outrun the shot
Shotgun boogie, I wanted weddin' bells
I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells


To be honist I have never heard that song before.
 
This song has guns. Really big guns.
Sink the bismarck
Song by Johnny Horton

In May of nineteen forty-one the war had just begun
The Germans had the biggest ship, they had the biggest guns
The Bismarck was the fastest ship that ever sailed the sea
On her deck were guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees

Out of the cold and foggy night came the British ship, the Hood
And every British seaman, he knew and understood
They had to sink the Bismarck, the terror of the sea
Stop those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees

The Battle of New Orleans
Song by Johnny Horton

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in a town in New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We looked down a river
And we see'd the British come
And there must have been a hundred of'em
Beatin' on the drums

They stepped so high
And they made their bugles ring
We stood by our cotton bales
And didn't say a thing

We fired our guns and the British kep a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they begin to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to
 
82nd All The Way

Song by Sabaton

In the draft of 1917, a man from Tennessee
Overseas to the trenches he went, from the land of the free
Into war he brought two things along, a rifle and his faith
Joined the ranks as a private, assigned to 338th

There on that day
Alvin York entered the fray
Saving the day
82nd all the way

Into the fires of hell, the Argonne, a hero to be
Entered the war from over the sea
Intervene, 1918, all the way from Tennessee
Hill 223

When his faith has been put to the test, the call to arms he heeds
On the eighth of October he went, made a sergeant for his deeds
Fearless, leading the raid of the war, machine gun on the hill
Charge the enemy taking the prisoners by power of his will

There on that day
Sergeant York entered the fray
Saving the day
82nd all the way

 
A lot of old, familiar songs here, but just as many of which I have never heard. Thanks for the discussion idea.
 
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" Vicki Lawrence did the original, followed by a Tanya Tucker Cover, but I prefer Reba McEntire's version.

Brother thought his wife must have left town
So he went home and finally found
The only thing Daddy had left him, and that was a gun

And his cheating wife had never left town
That's one body that'll never be found
You see little sister don't miss when she aims her gun



 
MAKE MY DAY From the film "Sudden Impact" (1983) (DeWayne Blackwell) T.G. Sheppard with Clint Eastwood - 1984

Well it was going down On the bad part of town At an all-night grocery store The old man there, his hands in the air His customers on the floor The hoods took all the money And all of his hard earned pay But then a tall man stepped in With a cynical grin and said (Eastwood: Go ahead, make my day) Somewhere a girl's walkin' all alone And now it's getting dark She knows she'd better hurry home So she cuts right through the park She finds herself surrounded Oh, she'll never get away But then from behind a tree trunk, a voice said (Eastwood: Punk, go ahead, make my day)
 
One of my favorites, Kenny Chesney American Kids

Baptist church parkin' lot, tryin' not to get caught
Take her home and give her your jacket
Makin' it to second base, but sayin' you went all the way
Monday afternoon at practice
Sisters got a boyfriend daddy doesn't like
Now he's sittin' out back, 30/30 in his lap
In the blue bug zapper light

 
A "B" side song from Garth Brooks called "Ireland". Doesn't specifically mention guns, but it does talk about the coming fight. Kind of a foreshadowing sort of a song, worth a listen.
 
"When you're born to play the fool
And you've seen all the western movies
Woe to the one who does you wrong
You hide in the bushes
Murder the man
With Luger in hand ...

"I understood that you will soon be leavin' town
Don't try to call me when they finally run you down
Just give fair warning any time you come around
With a gun ...

With a Gun, Steely Dan
 
" I'm gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I'm tall, Lord Lord,
I'm gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I'm tall,
I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma just to see her jump and fall..."

"I'm gonna buy me a shotgun with a great old shiny barrel,
I'm gonna buy me a shotgun with a great old shiny barrel,
I'm gonna shoot that rounder that stole away my gal..."

Jimmy Rodgers, Blue Yodel #1 (T For Texas)
 
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