I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun

Album: Matthew And Son (1967)
Charted: 6
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  • 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: STEVENS
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Parker Gabriel from Philadelphia, P.a.This selection was written, composed, and initially released in the 1960s, and it predated the problem of workplace violence by several decades.
  • Volker from Hamburg"I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun" was covered by the British hard rock band "Dirty Tricks" in 1975 (available on Spotify) and the British rock band "The Jeevas" in October, 2003 (available on Youtube).
  • Volker from HamburgAnother song that Cat Stevens wrote for the musical about Billy the Kid was "Northern Wind".
    That's why the song is sometimes called "Northern Wind (Death of Billy the Kid)". It first appeared on Cat Stevens' second LP "New Masters" in December 1967.
    The gun that is talked about in "I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun" reappears in the lyrics:
    "And with this gun goes everything I want to say
    Not for you, but for anyone who takes it away
    Let it fill his life, life, life until there's nothing left
    Let it kill his wife, wife, wife until he goes to bed"
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