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Title: Songs About Guns
Post by: APF1013 on February 21, 2018, 02:11:50 PM
Hey everyone.  I was just listening to "Grandaddy's Gun" by Aaron Lewis and it made me realize that there are a lot of great songs out there about guns.  What are some of your favorites? 
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Mntnman on February 21, 2018, 02:14:47 PM
Janie’s got a gun is a good one.
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: shooter on February 21, 2018, 04:13:36 PM
 My favorite gun song,,     Twilight zone, listen youll figure it out,

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: StuartJ on February 21, 2018, 04:25:15 PM
Not a gun song as such but I love Lester & Flatt's Salty Dog Blues:
I was down in the wildwood sittin on a log
Finger on the trigger and eye on a hog
Honey let me be your salty dog
Let me be your salty dog
Or I wont be your man at all
Honey let me be your salty dog
I pulled the trigger and the gun said "go"
The shot fell over in Mexico
Honey let me be your salty dog
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: depserv on February 21, 2018, 06:09:57 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SarX55s_QLU

The caption says this is about Obama but it's really about gun control.  I think the guy did a good job on it.
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Siggy on February 22, 2018, 09:26:04 AM
Black Betty.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/I_2D8Eo15wE
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Ghost on February 22, 2018, 09:47:20 AM
Big Iron by the great storyteller Marty Robbins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999RqGZatPs (ftp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=999RqGZatPs)

Ghost
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: StuartJ on February 23, 2018, 11:01:30 PM
Marty Robbins is my favorite singer.  I did a web search on Big Iron. Supposedly he based the song on gun that had the base of a  revolver but the cut down barrel from a marlin rifle which he saw in a gunshop in of all places Hollywood. That was decades ago of course.

 
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: David Hineline on February 25, 2018, 12:58:35 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: StuartJ on February 27, 2018, 02:16:37 PM
How did you post that video?  I cant find an option for that    I tried typing in [video][/video] with link but it didn't work.
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Dan W on February 27, 2018, 08:38:45 PM
How did you post that video?  I cant find an option for that    I tried typing in [video][/video] with link but it didn't work.
just post the link
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Mntnman on March 09, 2018, 10:57:09 AM
This is a new one for me. Kinda like it.

https://youtu.be/kSdkGnh4MEc
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Les on March 09, 2018, 05:37:00 PM
You guys forgot about at least one.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvxu8QY01s
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Les on March 09, 2018, 05:49:29 PM
Maybe another, it's up for discussion.   :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDB7GMnbUQ
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Les on March 09, 2018, 05:55:59 PM
Sorry just thinking.  Another blast from the past.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcEbkM5Z3yA
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Les on March 09, 2018, 05:58:09 PM
And how can we forget............https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9lf76xOA5k
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Les on March 09, 2018, 06:03:54 PM
My favorite gun song,,     Twilight zone, listen youll figure it out,

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w
Would've never figured you for a golden earring fan, salute  ;D
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Les on March 09, 2018, 06:15:32 PM
This is a new one for me. Kinda like it.

https://youtu.be/kSdkGnh4MEc
I think this has already been done....look to Hank Jr.  "Country Boy can survive".  Talk about plagiarism or close.  And he does it better. 
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Mntnman on March 09, 2018, 06:49:17 PM
I think this has already been done....look to Hank Jr.  "Country Boy can survive".  Talk about plagiarism or close.  And he does it better.

It's classic country music, I am not sure plagiarism can be called, lol. I listened to 2 of his albums today. It all sounds the same but it isn't bad. Not really my genre but I don't hate it.
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: shooter on March 09, 2018, 06:50:33 PM
Maybe another, it's up for discussion.   :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDB7GMnbUQ

 Back when they used a Orchastra and not just computer generated crap
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: shooter on March 09, 2018, 07:06:36 PM
Would've never figured you for a golden earring fan, salute  ;D

 well, I love the early rock. led Zeplin, Who,  Credence. chichago.

   one thing I don't understand about twilight zone,   its gun because " when the bullet hits the bone"   but there other hit "Radar love"   had actual clips from the twilight zone and outerlimits,   it was closer to a twilight zone than the first song was,,   . the episode " To Serve man" was a great one

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryyNtBf35d0
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: Les on March 10, 2018, 08:22:01 AM
well, I love the early rock. led Zeplin, Who,  Credence. chichago.

   one thing I don't understand about twilight zone,   its gun because " when the bullet hits the bone"   but there other hit "Radar love"   had actual clips from the twilight zone and outerlimits,   it was closer to a twilight zone than the first song was,,   . the episode " To Serve man" was a great one

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryyNtBf35d0
Yeah, some of those old rock song lyrics are hard to hear let alone understand, of course I'm told I have some hearing loss  ;)
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: StuartJ on March 14, 2018, 03:14:17 PM
https://youtu.be/t2q14ZI5Vgw
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: DenmanShooter on May 11, 2018, 08:10:01 PM
Been absent for a while, knee surgery, bad internet and just too damn lazy ..

But here's one I like ..

Should've Been a Cowboy - Toby Keith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIq1LvzSLsk
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: StuartJ on May 14, 2018, 01:15:10 PM
To quote the Gatlin Brothers: All the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else's name


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-jRkeVYlc&t

This family have several like this. This one and "Put Another Log On The FIre" are my favorite.
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: shooter on May 14, 2018, 01:29:18 PM
To quote the Gatlin Brothers: All the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else's name


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-jRkeVYlc&t

This family have several like this. This one and "Put Another Log On The FIre" are my favorite.

  Now im gonna have to go dig out the DVD and watch this again, I saw Tom Doniphon
 when he shot Valance with the rifle, but where was Pompey?
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: shooter on May 14, 2018, 03:53:15 PM
  Well I gotta believe this is the top gun song of all time,  I figure everyone in the world know what this is from,

     Wa Wa Waaaaa.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkM71JPHfjk
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: cftj on May 14, 2018, 06:04:36 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmUsJvRv7U
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: StuartJ on May 15, 2018, 01:32:48 PM
Try this version:
https://youtu.be/pLgJ7pk0X-s
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: shooter on May 15, 2018, 01:54:43 PM
 another one from a great GUN movie.     its really sad that todays movies have crap for music,  nothing like a full Orchestra to really make you feel the song.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-MVReDrRwo
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: StuartJ on May 15, 2018, 09:21:23 PM
You do know The Magnificent Seven was a remake of The Seven Samurai right? 
Title: Re: Songs About Guns
Post by: shooter on May 15, 2018, 11:22:37 PM
You do know The Magnificent Seven was a remake of The Seven Samurai right?

   yes, I have it dubed in English on DVD