Best "Gun Songs" (we did gun movies, so...)

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The only one I can think of is, "I shot the sheriff."

Oh, wait, dang, can't think of the name, you know, "Down in the west Texas town of El Paso..." or has it been mentioned?


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Ron

Detroit Area Chapter
Terra-Haute Torque & Recoil Society
 
"Over hill, over dale,
We will hit the dusty trail,
as those caisson's go rolling aloooong."

EQUALIZER - I LOVE "High Noon." And that song.

Cliff

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"Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
-P.J. O'Rourke
 
Here's one of my favorites: Jimmie Rodgers' Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)
"I'm gonna' buy me a shotgun with a great long shiny barrel
I'm gonna' shoot that rounder that stoled away my gal"

Also "The Rooster" by Alice in Chains
"Walkin' tall machine gun man"

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Hands down best: "Don't Forget The Guns" http://www.topshot.com/dh/Guns.html

Good music, great lyrics. A solid, patriotic family goes off for the Great American Vacation...and nobody's gonna mess up their trip.

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Now let's get the kids and pack up the car

Take that vacation we've been waiting for

Drive across this country leave our worries far behind

Sing in four-part harmony to "Sweet Adeline"

'Cause I got these books and maps from triple "A"

We'll visit friends and sites along the way

Bring the bikes and toys and diapers

Pay the neighbor's sons

Call to stop the mail and honey

Don't forget the guns

Now don't forget the guns you know exactly what I mean

Bring the pistols, bring the Uzi and the old AR-15

We don't look for trouble but by golly if we're in it

It's nice to know we're free to blow 900 rounds a minute

We'll head for Chicago, stop for the night

Hope for good weather and hope the kids don't fight

They've never seen Mt. Rushmore and they ought to understand

The kind of men who forged our freedom all across this land

We'll hike up a trail and ride down a stream

Stand by Old Faithful and watch her blow off steam

When we pack picnic lunches that's not all we'll bring along

'Cause we'll be packing .45's case anything goes wrong

Now don't forget the guns you know exactly what I mean

Bring the pistols, bring the Uzi and the old AR-15

We don't look for trouble but by golly if we're in it

It's nice to know we're free to blow 900 rounds a minute

Oh riding along we'll follow the signs

Over the mountains under the pines

Up to Boot Hill where they got what they gave

In the land of the free you've got to be brave
 
cat
16 shells from a 30.06 was by tom waites. and it was about the texas tower shooter. i beleive whitman was the guys name. kurt russell played him in a "made for tv" movie
 
Ron L,
I believe that was a Marty Robbins song.

Jim C,
Tom Waites might have done it first, but Bob Segar did it on his "It's a Mystery" album.

Johnny Cash did "Don't Take Your Guns To Town".

The Beatles did "Rocky Racoon".

I forget the artist but back in the 50s "Stagger Lee".
(Stagger Lee went home, and he got his .44.
He said he's goin' back to that bar room and pay that debt he owed).

Jim Croce's "Bad Bad Leroy Brown"
(He had a .32 gun in his pocket for fun and a razor in his shoe.)
 
Dont know about best but these have some firearm talk in them,

GNR "SHOTGUN BLUES"

Neil Young "Keep on Rockin in the Free World"

INXS "GUNS IN THE SKY"

DURAN DURAN "SHOTGUN"

U2 "EXIT"

THE ALARM "68 GUNS"

METALLICA "WHISKEY IN THE JAR"



[This message has been edited by oberkommando (edited February 05, 2000).]
 
Don't forget the line in Lynard Skynard's "Sat. Night Special"
"Handguns is made for killin'
Ain't good for nothin' else.
I wish we could all just dump them"
In the bottom of the sea.

One of my favorites is an obscure one by Jethro Tull (the lead singer, Ian Anderson, is an avid hunter). The song was "I am Your Gun"

"I am the peacemaker, so the stories told,
But I can't choose the company I keep, and it shows.
When you think of me, keep this in mind,
It's not the gun that kills, but the man behind"
 
Some great songs listed here, especially ZZ Top's Esther Be the One ("Esther be the one who shoots her machine gun, whether you like it or not,") the 2 Zevon songs (L,G,&M is hilarious, IMHO) andThe Battle of New Orleans. I'm somewhat surpised, though, that no one mentioned Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues with the line, "so I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."

My favorite is Rainbow Demon by Uriah Heep. I used this line, the refrain of the song, as a quote for my high school senior picture.
"Rainbow Demon, pick up your heart and run.
Rainbow Demon, lives for his sword and his gun."
BTW, be warned that I have first dibs on "Rainbow Demon" as a screen name.<G>

Skynyrd's Mr. Saturday Night Special definitely doesn't belong in this list as it was written purely as an anti-handgun statement.

It also seems that just about anything by Hank Williams, Jr. might qualify whether it mentions guns or not simply because he's very vocal about and proud of his gun ownership.

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Marty Robbins "Big Iron", "Running Gun", "Hey Joe" by Jimmi Hendrix and Hank Jrs "A country boy can survive"...7th

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If you can find it, get a copy of Allan Damron's Gringo Pistolero! It's a song with a story set in the 1910's down on the border of Mexico (Oxinagua) and Texas (Marathon), in which a rich rancher has hired an ex-trooper (the Gringo Pistolero) to go across the border to bring back his wife, who has been kidnapped by bandit Chicocana. Chicocana has lookout avisos with signal mirrors lie in ambush in the cliffs of the canyon where the hideout lair is.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>...asked the number of his followers? the number of his guns?
The answer came back, like the falling of a stone: "He comes alone: the Gringo Pistolero."

Hold sights up to 800, and a yard left for the wind! By Gawd, that's one aviso that'll never flash again!
Bleeding red tears, from a third eye, it's a gift he cannot feel--
--From the Springfield of the Gringo Pistolero.[/quote]
And that doesn't even include the gunfight by pistol (complete with border shift: "one pistol empty, fell to the dirt/But another sprang like magic, from inside the gringo's shirt"), which I really can't do justice to by memory, here.

Art, where are you, man? I know you've got some...

[This message has been edited by Long Path (edited February 05, 2000).]
 
Skynyrd's "Gimme Back My Bullets" is about their songs hitting the Billboard chart "with a bullet."

My favorite (and becoming more relevant with each passing day):

"Get ready, get ready, get ready,
StormTroopers comin', get ready..."

by Ted Nugent
 
Hank Williams Jr.-
"A Coalition to Ban Coalitions"
...They wanna take my ciggerates and all my good whiskey,
these damn coalitions they are after you and me,
they wanna get rid of my .44s and all the R-rated films,
if they all knew how much we'd all love to get rid of them...

He has hit the nail on the head.

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"Those that give up essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.
 
Bulldog,

That really brought back ol memories!

"I met a pretty gal she was tall and thin/I asked her what she had/she said a Fox 410/I looked her up and down and said baby this is love/we headed for the brush to shoot a big fat dove" Shotgun Boggie, etc...

Man that goes back to the late '40s or early '50s! Tennesse Williams or Ernie Ford?
 
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