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Cat Stevens - I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun

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Album: Matthew And Son
Released: 1967

I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun Lyrics

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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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.

Cat Stevens - Matthew And Son

Cat Stevens - Matthew And Son Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Matthew And Son
Released: 1966

Matthew And Son Lyrics

Up at eight, you can't be late
For Matthew And Son, he won't wait.
Watch them run down to platform one
And the eight-thirty train to matthew & son.

Matthew & son, the work's never done, there's always something new.
The files in your head, you take them to bed, you're never ever through.
And they've been working all day, all day, all day!

There's a five minute break and that's all you take,
For a cup of cold coffee and a piece of cake.

Matthew and son, the work's never done, there's always something new.
The files in your head, you take them to bed, you're never ever through.
And they've been working all day, all day, all day!

He's got people who've been working for fifty years
No one asks for more money 'cause nobody cares
Even though they're pretty low and their rent's in arrears

Matthew and son, Matthew and son, Matthew and son, Matthew and son,
And they've been working all day, all day, all day!

Writer/s: CAT STEVENS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This was inspired by a sign Stevens saw in a shop window while riding a bus in London. By the time it got to his stop, he thought up the story of the worker that became the main character in the song.

This was Stevens' first Top-10 hit in England. It's the title track of his first album.

This was recorded with an orchestra.

This is the first track on Stevens' 2000 Greatest Hits compilation. After converting to Islam, Stevens (who became known as Yusuf Islam) made only religious music, but came to accept that his previous work had a lot of meaning and agreed to release it as a Greatest Hits album.