Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spear, oh clouds unfold Bring me my chariots of fire I shall not cease form mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Til we have built Jerusalem On England's green and pleasant land
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when in walked a man with a gun in his hand,
Gimme Three Steps
Lynyrd Skynyrd
When I was just a baby
My mama told me "Son
Always be a good boy
Don't ever play with guns"
But I shot a man in Reno
Just to watch him die
Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
Shape of My Heart
Sting
all the other kids with their pumped-up kicks,
better run, better run
outrun my gun
Foster the People
Now the valley cried in anger
Mount your horses, draw your swords!
And they killed the mountain people
So they won their just reward
One Tin Soldier
From the movie The Legend of Billy Jack
Performed by many different people
We were glowin' like the metal on the edge of a knife
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
Clang Clang Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that he was dead
The Beatles
Rocky had come,equipped with a gun,
to shoot off the legs of his rival
The Beatles
No one dared to ask his business
No one dared to make a slip
For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Marty Robbins
Vera ran with lawless men who trembled when she talked
She never flinched, she never smiled, and her gun was always cocked
Vera Flew the Coop
Marian Call
I took my pistol from my hip
And with a trembling hand
I took the life of pretty Flo
And that good for nothing man
That good for nothing man
They're Hanging Me Tonight
Marty Robbins
We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin
The Battle of New Orleans
Johnny Horton
I was the one who got good with the gun,
took money from the rich man's land
Gimme Some Water
Eddy Money
Bring me my bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spear, oh clouds unfold
Bring me my chariots of fire
I shall not cease form mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Til we have built Jerusalem
On England's green and pleasant land
Jerusalem
He got a .32 gun in his pocket for fun.
He got a razor in his shoe.
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Oh give me a chance, oh give me a chance
Give me a chance for my life
You're standing there with two swords by your side
And me not as much as a knife
Matty Groves, traditional ballad
They all ran after the farmer's wife
She cut off their tails with a carving knife
Three Blind Mice
one of those sweet songs traditionally sung to small children...
And the science gets done
And you make a neat gun
for the people who are still alive
Still Alive
Jonathan Coulton
(Portal credits song)
The Doctor's stuck in the Pandorica
Amy might be dead
And Rory's a roman with a gun inside his hand
Seems like things aren't going as planned
Big Bang Two - Chameleon Circuit
Some punk with a shotgun
Killed young Danny Bailey
In cold blood
In the lobby of a downtown motel
The Ballad of Danny Bailey
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
Hey Joe,
Where you goin' with that gun in your hand
Hey Joe
Jimi Hendrix
And I'm not ashamed to say
The sound of guns and cannons almost made me cry
"Fernando," ABBA
From his head to his toe
He was covered in ammo
Like a big, fat, drunk, disgruntled
Yuletide Rambo
...luger, flamethrower...
...bullets are flying, the body count's rising...
"The Night Santa Went Crazy," Weird Al
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
Rockin' in the Free World
Neil Young
War is the common cry
Pick up your swords and fly
The Battle of Evermore
Led Zeppelin
DOH!!! I Played twice in a row!? I'm so sorry.
Such a cheater, though it was an accident.
Mercedes and Deb have played. If another play comes, that's three and I might jump back in.
I heard screaming
And bullwhips cracking
How long?
Southern Man
Neil Young
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town)
Kenny Rogers
All he had in his hand was a Barlow knife
Yeah that's what he used to take the first two lives
Rastus Russell - Adrienne Young & Little Sadie
And the rockets red glare
The bombs bursting in air
But when he threatened your life
With a switchblade knife...
"Eddie," from Rocky Horror
And in her right hand
A silver dagger
She says that I
Can't be your bride
Silver Dagger
Joan Baez sang it in the 60's, it's probably older than that though
Everybody run,
The homecoming queen's got a gun.
Julie Brown
Happiness is a warm gun
is a warm gun
The Beatles
Standing on the beach
With a gun in my hand,
Staring at the beach,
Staring at the sand.
The Cure
I'll be your sword
I'll be your shield
Sword and Shield
Sister Hazel
Someone's sneakin'
around the corner
Could that someone
be Mack the Knife?
Mack the Knife
Bobby Darrin
He took out his dagger of fire and of steel
And struck down the raven through the heart, oh
Crazy Man Micheal - Fairport Convention
You don't believe in war
but what's that gun you're totin'?
Eve of Destruction
Barry MacGuire
I seen a man a-comin'
Comin' with a gun 'n'
I just can't be beat
Long Tall Texan (an irritating song from the 60's)
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night
In a backseat there was a gun
Words were passed, a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My Hometown
Bruce Springsteen
A man never trifles
with gals who carry rifles
You Can't Get a Man With a Gun
Annie Get Your Gun
be my mirror, my sword and shield,
my missionaries in a foreign field
Viva La Vida
Coldplay
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Julia Ward Howe
There's a man with a gun over there
A-tellin' me I got to beware
Buffalo Springfield, "For What it's Worth"
There could have been some gunfire
It might have been a slashed tire
Noona's Revenge - Two Nice Girls
Robbing people with a six gun,
I fought the law and the law won.
The Clash
Where the air smelled like snakes
We'd shoot with our pistols
Muhlenberg County
Janie's got a gun
Dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
Janie's Got a Gun
Aerosmith
And the future you're giving me holds nothing for a gun
Sixty Years On
Elton John / Bernie Taupin
You can't get a man with a gun
(Irving Berlin, from "Annie Get Your Gun")
Swing your razor high, Sweeney
Show it to the sky!
(Stephen Sondheim, from "Sweeney Todd")
And you wanna run,
But he's got a gun,
And he shoots you dead,
And he eats your head,
And now you're in the man from mars.
Rapture by Blondie
There's a weapon that we must use in our defense, silence.
The Go-Gos - Our Lips Are Sealed
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