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

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"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

"Streets of Larado"



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Ne Conjuge Nobiscum
"If there be treachery, let there be jehad!"
 
Jim V just beat me to one of my favorites in The "Streets of Laredo", based loosely on an old Irish ballad. Willy and Merles' duet "Poncho and Lefty" comes to mind also.
 
Hank Williams Jr.- A Country Boy Can Survive
"..got a shotgun, a rifle, and a four-wheel-drive, and a country boy can survive.."
later, referring to the thug who killed his friend, "I'd like to spit some Beech Nut in that dude's eyes, and then shoot him with my ol' .45......"


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JPFO member, CCRKBA/SAF Member
FCSA member
 
Metallica's version of "Whiskey in the Jar" aint as good as the one Thin Lizzy did 25 years ago, and the song is a traditional Irish folk song.
Can anybody identify the guns pictured on the Zevon anthology cd? esp. the large scoped stainless revolver he is shooting with Hunter S. Thompson? Other interesting bits abouts Warren's tunes, in "Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School" the "handclap" sounds are actually a S&W M29 .44 mag fired into a trash can full of gravel and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" was written by Warren and an ex-mercenary, bar-owner in Spain.
Warren mentions guns in many of his other songs, including "Frank and Jesse James" , "Play It All Night Long" , "Jeannie Needs a Shooter", and "Searching for a Heart"

Bergie
forgot to mention "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" - "Got a .38 special up on shelf,
I'll sleep when I'm dead"

[This message has been edited by bergie (edited February 05, 2000).]
 
There has to be a song about Bonnie & Clyde somewhere, but I can't remember if I've never heard one.

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Ron

Detroit Area Chapter
Terra-Haute Torque & Recoil Society
 
100K, time for part II.

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