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    Grand Funk Railroad - Don't Let 'Em Take Your Gun

    Don't Let 'em Take Your Gun

    (Lyrics)

    by Mark Farner

    Ohhh, people why don't you come in here and let me talk to you a while.
    That's right, step right up and listen to a concerned citizen speak his piece.

    I'll tell you a little something that my daddy told to me.
    My basic fundamentals if you want to be free.
    'cause son, there's something wrong internally.
    So, if you want your freedom son.
    Don't want your country to be overrun.
    You got to keep America number one.

    My daddy told me "son, don't let 'em take your gun.
    That's what they tryin' to do.
    Son, don't let 'em take your gun.
    They're takin' your bill of rights away from you."
    My daddy said "son, don't let 'em take your gun.
    That's what they tryin' to do.
    Son, don't let 'em take your gun.
    Don't let 'em take your gun away from you."

    Ohhh, this year is our anniversary.
    Two hundred years, people we've been free.
    Won't be nobody takin' over our land.
    If everybody's brother's got a gun in his hand.
    I'm tellin' you we've learned to fight for justice.
    We're willing to die for freedom.
    Hand in hand.
    You got to understand.
    We are American men.

    Said they want your gun.
    Said they want your gun.
    Send 'em on the run.
    Send 'em on the run.
    Hip-hurray for fun.
    Hip-hurray for fun.
    If they do we're done.
    If they do we're done.

    My daddy told me "son, don't let 'em take your gun.
    That's what they tryin' to do.
    Son, don't let 'em take your gun.
    They're takin' your bill of rights away from you."
    My daddy said "son, don't let 'em take your gun.
    That's what they tryin' to do.
    Son, don't let 'em take your gun.
    Don't let 'em take your gun away from you."

    Unlike other musicians who refer to guns with sarcasm, Grand Funk's co-founder, Mark Farner, wrote the song to mean exactly what it says, just like the Second Amendment. He's quoted by Michigan's MLive:

    "There's no other way for me to protect my family except that gun," Farner said. "The world is a crazy place. Look what happened to poor John Lennon. There's too many looney-tunes out there."

    "I think every one of us needs to be packing heat" to help prevent (incidents like school shootings)," Farner said in a telephone interview from his home in northern Michigan.

    If more people are armed, he said, would-be killers will "be taken down long before they fire the second shot."

    Farner said guns have always been a part of his life since his father, a World War II veteran, was an avid hunter. "If a man don't have the right to protect his family, he ain't free," he said.
    The album Good Singin', Good Playin' was produced by none other than Frank Zappa, who became a life member of the NRA after Farner taught him how to shoot a gun. It wasn't a hit album, and "Don't Let 'em Take Your Gun" probably didn't get a lot of radio airtime, if any. So don't feel bad if you've never heard it or don't remember it.

    The Elites don't fear the tall nails, government possesses both the will and the means to crush those folks. What the Elites do fear (or should fear) are the quiet men and women, with low profiles, hard hearts, long memories, and detailed target folders for action as they choose.

    "I here repeat, & would willingly proclaim, my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule—to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, & to the perfidious, malignant, & vile Yankee race."

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    Silent Running by Mike and the Mechanics

    (Lyrics)

    Take the children and yourself
    And hide out in the cellar
    By now the fighting will be close at hand
    Don't believe the church and state
    And everything they tell you
    Believe in me, I'm with the high command
    Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
    Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
    Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
    Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
    There's a gun and ammunition
    Just inside the doorway
    Use it only in emergency
    Better you should pray to God
    The Father and the Spirit
    Will guide you and protect from up here
    Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
    Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
    Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
    Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?

    Swear allegiance to the flag
    Whatever flag they offer
    Never hint at what you really feel
    Teach the children quietly
    For some day sons and daughters
    Will rise up and fight while we stand still
    Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
    Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
    Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
    Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
    Can you hear me, can you hear me running (can you hear me calling you?)
    Can you hear me hear running, can you hear me calling you?
    (Can you hear me running) Can hear me running (can you hear me calling you)?
    Can you hear me
    Hear me calling you
    (Can you hear me running) hear me running, babe
    Can you hear me running (hear me running)
    Calling you

    The Elites don't fear the tall nails, government possesses both the will and the means to crush those folks. What the Elites do fear (or should fear) are the quiet men and women, with low profiles, hard hearts, long memories, and detailed target folders for action as they choose.

    "I here repeat, & would willingly proclaim, my unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule—to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, & to the perfidious, malignant, & vile Yankee race."

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