Guns in music

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO RANDOLPH SCOTT
(Don Reid / Harold Reid)
The Statler Brothers - 1973


Everybody knows when you go to the show
You can't take the kids along
You've gotta read the paper
And know the code of GPG and R and X
And you gotta know what the movie's about
Before you even go
Tex Ritter's gone and Disney's dead
And the screen is filled with sex

Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Ridin' the train alone
Whatever happened to Gene and Tex
And Roy and Rex, The Durango Kid
Oh, whatever happened to Randolph Scott
His horse plain as could be
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the best of me

Everybody's tryin' to make a comment
About our doubts and fears
True Grit's the only movie
I've really understood in years
You gotta take your analyst along
To see if it's fit to see
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the industry

Whatever happened to Johnny Mack Brown
And Alan Rocky Lane
Whatever happened to Lash LaRue
I'd love to see them again
Whatever happened to Smiley Burnette
Tim Holt and Gene Autry
Whatever happened to all of these
Has happened to the best of me
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott
Has happened to the industry




No guns mentioned, but you get the idea.
 
"Killer's Bluze", George Thorogood And The Destroyers [my hands down, all time favorite group]. "I'm gonna kill you...with my smokin' .44..you're gonna wake up one morning, baby...down on the killing floor.."
 
Momma, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger now he's dead.

-Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"



I was born, six gun in my hand,
Behind a gun, I'll make my final stand

Also...

Choose a gun, and threw away the sun.

- Bad Co. "Bad Company"
 
The Sound of Madness by Shinedown has a couple of gun references

Shoot to Thrill by AC/DC is pretty obvious

For Those About to Rock by AC/DC also has cannon fire ala 1812 Overture
 
"Poor Billy Bonney, youre only twenty-one,
Pat Garrett's got your name on every bullet in his gun.
Each notch you carved on your six-gun's got a bloody tale to tell
You're a mile ahead of Garrett, and a step outside of hell."

Billy the Kid by Chris LeDoux


Oh, and I much prefer Johnny Cash's rendition of The Devil's Right Hand.
 
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My favorite is probably Nonpoint (that's the name of the band).

"My disposition is in a position for all to see.
Regretless for how it feels.
I got a bullet with a name on it.
Bullet with a name.

Because the cause for all, the pause you think you see
is really concentration on the steel.
I got a bullet with a name on it."

But it seems most rap/hip hop songs have gun references.
 
Shinedown-.45

Metallica- Ronnie

Godsmacks rendition of rocky mountain way "38's loaded and i'm gonna crack"

Five finger death punch's version of bad company: "I was born, shotgun in my hand"

Its already been mentioned but johnny cash's cocaine blues
 
AC/DC - Fire Your Guns

"Yeah, you want some fun
You gotta fire your guns
fire your guns
you gotta fire your guns
fire your guns"
 
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