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901 - Buy A Gun For Your Son - acoustic cover of Tom Paxton by George Possley

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Channel: George Possley · 2012 · Music

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I'd like to see the US adopt gun laws similar to the UK where the cops don't even carry guns.  No handgun can be sold with a short barrel unless it's .22 cal or less.

People WITH GUNS kill more people than people without guns.  And if criminals were put away for a LONG TIME for even possessing an illegal gun, that would cut down the number of guns in use by the "bad guys".

The NRA in America continues to fund a propaganda campaign that uses fear to convince people that guns = freedom.  That's BALONEY!
SOTD for Thursday, November 1, 2012

Buy a Gun for Your Son

Words and Music by Tom Paxton
Chords I used:  
on verses 
G D7  G D7 
ON chorus: 
GCG
CG
GCA
D7 G
Hallelujah, Dads and Mommies,
Cowboys, Rebels, Yanks and Commies
Buy yourselves som real red blooded fun.
If you want to make the grade,
You've got to have a hand grenade,
And a fully automatic G.I. Gun.

[Cho:]
Buy a gun for your son right away, Sir
Shake his hand like a man and let him play, Sir.
Let his little mind expand, Place a weapon in his hand,
For the skills he learns today will someday pay, Sir.

Pound that kid into submission 
'Till he's mastered Nuclear Fission
Buy him plastic warheads by the score,
Once he's got the taste of blood, 
He's gonna sneak up on his buddies
Starting his own thermo-nuclear war.

[Cho.]

Buy him khakis and fatigues,
And sign him up in little leagues,
Give him calisthenics as a rule.
Once you've banished fear and dread,
Then pat his seven year-old head,
And send him off to military school.

[Cho]

Once he's grown to be a man,
He might get tired of blasting Granny,
Then you'll see a crisis coming on.
Don't get worried, don't get nervous.
Send that kid into the service,
Let him rise into the Pentagon.

[Cho]

At the Pentagon he'll rise.
The President he will advise,
His reputation growing all the while.
With his picture on the wall,
He'll get that long-awaited call,
And press the firing buttons with a smile.

[Cho]

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