Gun Song - Stephen Sondheim

Gun Song

Stephen Sondheim

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Lyric

It takes a lot of men to make a gun

Hundreds

Many men to make a gun

Men in the mines

To dig the iron

Men in the mills

To forge the steel

Men at machines

To turn the barrel

Mold the trigger

Shape the wheel

It takes a lot of men to make a gun

One gun

And all you have to do

Is move your little finger

Move your little finger and

You can change the world

Why should you be blue

When you've your little finger?

Prove how just a little finger

Can

Change the world (I hate this gun)

What a wonder is a gun!

What a versatile invention!

First of all, when you've a gun

Everybody pays attention!

When you think what must be done

Think of all that it can do

Remove a scoundrel

Unite a party

Preserve the union

Promote the sales of my book!

Ensure my future

My niche in history

And then the world will see

That I am not a man to overlook!

Ha-ha!

And all you have to do

Is squeeze your little finger

Ease your little finger back

You can change the world

Whatever else is true

You trust your little finger

Just a single little finger

Can

Change the world

I got this really great gun

Shit, where is it?

No, it's really great

Wait!

Shit, where is it?

Anyway

It's just a .38

But

It's a gun

You can make a state

Ment

Wrong!

With a gun

Even if you fail

It tells 'em who you are

Where you stand

This one was on sale

It

No, not the shoe

Well, actually the shoe was, too

No, that's not it

Shit, I had it here

Got it!

Yeah! There it is!

And all you have to do

Is crook your little finger

Hook, your little finger 'round

Shit, I shot it

You can change the world

Change the world

Simply follow through

And look, your little finger can

Slow them down

To a crawl

Show them all

Big and small

It took a little finger

No time to

Change the world

A gun kills many men before it's done

Hundreds

Long before you shoot the gun

Men in the mines

And in the steel mills

Men at machines

Who died for what?

Something to buy

A watch, a shoe, a gun

A "thing" to make the bosses richer!

But

A gun claims many men before it's done

Just one

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