Top 10: Songs about guns
June 27th, 2008 by Wade Tatangelo in Self-indulgent musings
Well, it’s Year of the Gun. For the first time in history the Supreme Court has defined the Second Amendment as defending every Tom, Dick and Hillary’s right to own a gun — not just Militia persons, which is how the amendment reads to me:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
If everyone is going to be armed to the teeth, though, why not me? Any suggestions? Anyway, here are some songs that celebrate our country’s rather disturbing fascination with firearms.
Top 10: Songs about guns
1. “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” The Beatles
2. “Time to Get a Gun,” Fred Eaglesmith
3. “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner,” Warren Zevon
4. “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” Warren Zevon
5. “Pistol Packin’ Papa,” Jimmie Rodgers
6. “Machine Gun,” Jimi Hendrix
7. “Gun,” Uncle Tupelo
8. “Me and My Girlfriend,” 2Pac
9. “Big Iron,” Marty Robbins
10. “Shotgun,” Lightnin’ Hopkins
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June 27th, 2008 at 10:42 am
“Me and a Gun,” Tori Amos.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:55 am
“Melt the Guns” by XTC
June 27th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
devils right hand - s e
June 27th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Good call. Dig Earle’s original and the one Waylon Jennings did for one of the Highwaymen albums.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:13 am
“Tommy Gun,” The Clash
“Love Gun,” Kiss
June 28th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Wade, you own a gun?!?!? Ha! You’d probably shoot your dick off trying to load it. The same way you write.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:51 am
“Bang Bang” Sonny and Cher
“I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded” The Andrews Sisters
“Pistol Packin’ Mama” Bing Crosby
June 30th, 2008 at 11:56 am
idiotwind: Great call on “Bang Bang (My baby Shot Me Down.) Nancy Sinatra does a nice version, too. But my fave is the one by Dylan’s buddy Jack White’s band The Raconteurs. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhGnuHuD5Fc
July 1st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
That’s When I reach for my revolver” by Mission of Burma (and Moby).
How did you forget that?
July 1st, 2008 at 7:54 pm
“I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)” –Elton John