Tommy Gun

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Tommy Gun by The Clash

About Tommy Gun

"Tommy Gun" was London punk rock band The Clash's seventh single, and the first single taken from their second album Give 'Em Enough Rope' Joe Strummer said that he got the idea for the song when he was thinking about terrorists, and how they probably enjoy reading about their killings as much as movie stars like seeing their films reviewed. While Topper Headon mimics the sound of gangster movie shootings with quick snare hits and the guitars are full of distortion and feedback .

Tommy Gun Lyrics

[00:15.67] Tommy gun
[00:19.55] You ain't happy unless you got one
[00:20.96] Tommy gun
[00:25.10] Ain't gonna shoot the place up just for fun
[00:28.07] Maybe he wants to die for the money
[00:31.03] Maybe he wants to kill for his country
[00:33.90] Whatever he wants, he's gonna get it
[00:40.87] Tommy gun
[00:43.75] You better strip it down for a customs run
[00:46.92] Tommy gun
[00:49.30] Waiting in the airport 'til kingdom come
[00:52.65] An' we can watch you make it
[00:53.91] On the nine o'clock news
[00:55.07] Standing there in Palestine, lighting the fuse
[00:58.61] Whatever you want, you're gonna get it
[01:05.56] Tommy gun
[01:11.88] Tommy gun
[01:30.29] Tommy gun
[01:32.67] You'll be dead, war is won
[01:35.80] Tommy gun
[01:38.83] But did you have to gun down everyone?
[01:41.61] I can see it's kill or be killed
[01:44.51] A nation of destiny has got to be fulfilled
[01:47.88] Whatever you want, you're gonna get it
[01:54.40] Tommy gun
[01:57.35] You can be a hero in an age of none
[02:00.65] Tommy gun
[02:03.35] I'm cutting out your picture from page one
[02:06.25] I'm gonna get a jacket just like yours
[02:09.29] An' give my false support to your cause
[02:12.22] Whatever you want, you're gonna get it
[02:30.82] Okay, so let's agree about the prize
[02:36.13] And make it one jet airliner for ten prisoners
[02:42.38] Boats and tanks and planes, it's your game
[02:47.93] Kings and queens and generals learn your name
[02:52.90] I see all the innocents, the human sacrifice
[03:00.32] And if death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life
[03:12.63]

From the album: Hits Back