Gun Song Top Ten: My Fathers Gun (#2)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (68120)
United States
August 22, 2021 11:01am CST
Are you tired of all these songs with “gun” in the title by people you’ve never heard of? Relax. You’ve heard of this guy. You probably don’t know the song because it wasn’t a hit, but that never bothers me when it comes to a good song. Here’s today’s fifth and final Hall of Famer in this countdown.
#2: My Father’s Gun - Elton John
I have to say it’s a little strange to hear a guy with a British accent singing a song about being in the Confederate army during the Civil War.
Elton’s lyricist, Bernie Taupin, has had a fascination with the American west and US history from his early days. Did he ever show it on the second US/third overall album by Elton, Tumbleweed Connection.
When I was an Elton teenybopper at 15 I didn’t care that much for Tumbleweed Connection. Now it’s one of my favorite Elton albums.
My Father’s Gun
Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Recorded by Elton John
From Tumbleweed Connection, 1971
Slip us a rope and sail on round the bend:
MY FATHER'S GUNElton JohnTumbleweed Connection (1970)From this day on I own my father's gunWe dug his shallow grave beneath the sunI laid his broken body dow...
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@RebeccasFarm (89870)
• Arvada, Colorado
22 Aug 21
Pretty cool now..I had not ever heard it
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@FourWalls (68120)
• United States
23 Aug 21
There’s a picture of Bernie on a horse on his ranch out somewhere in the west on The Captain and the Kid.
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@LindaOHio (178869)
• United States
23 Aug 21
Elton is in my top 10; but this song is a new one on me.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
23 Aug 21
i have to say, once again you've outdone yourself. I learned something, and heard a song I had never heard before!!!
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@FourWalls (68120)
• United States
23 Aug 21
When I say he was my favorite singer as a teenager, I mean it.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
23 Aug 21
@FourWalls it is truly apparent! You have shared a lot of his stuff!
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@FourWalls (68120)
• United States
23 Aug 21
@myklj999 — and you should’ve seen the one I deleted!
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