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| Cat Stevens - I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun |
Cat Stevens - I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun Lyrics and Youtube Music VideosAlbum:
Matthew And Son Released:
1967 I've been demoralized too many times
But now I realize, Ah ah, no more.
I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun I'm gonna get me a gun
And all those people who put me down
You better get ready to run,
'cause I'm gonna get me a gun
I know my destiny is like the sun
You see the best of me when I have got my gun
I'm gonna get me a gun
I'm gonna get me a gun
And all those people who put me down
You better get ready to run,
'cause I'm gonna get me a gun
So you think you can push me around
And make me run
Well I'm gonna tell you now
I'm gonna get me a gun
I'm gonna get me a gun
And all those people who put me down
You better get ready to run,
'cause I'm gonna get me a gun
Gonna get me a gun
Writer/s: ISLAM, YUSUF
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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LyricFindI'm Gonna Get Me A Gun Song Chart Stevens wrote this song for a musical about Billy The Kid that was never produced. It is noteworthy that in the late '60s and early '70s, gun-toting revenge fantasies such as the Death Wish series gained great popularity. This is partly attributable to the Baby Boomers, having lived in a vacuum of free love and communes through the '60s, began to settle down, get jobs, and suddenly own property, at which point they saw the value of defending it. A promotional poster featuring guns was issued by his record company. Stevens denounced the poster years later when he became a Muslim. According to the book Sociology in Perspective by mark Kirby, this is one of the songs banned from the radio by the BBC during the Gulf War. A song about guns is likely to cause controversy, but not likely to encourage actual violence. Michael Moore's 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine examines the American fascination with guns, and counters all the media speculation of the effects of music and video games on the perpetrators of the Columbine high school massacre by suggesting that maybe a culture steeped in violence with guns and ammunition readily available everywhere had something to do with it. Along with "I Love My Dog" and "Matthew And Son," this was one of the songs Stevens would play while touring with Jimi Hendrix and Engelbert Humperdinck.