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Don’t Let ‘Em Take Your Gun

This version of Don’T Let ‘Em Take Your Gun was released by Grand Funk Railroad in 1976.

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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 somthing 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 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.

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The lyrics to Don’T Let ‘Em Take Your Gun are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Grand Funk Railroad used when the song was created in 1976. The lyrics to Don’T Let ‘Em Take Your Gun have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Grand Funk Railroad and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Don’T Let ‘Em Take Your Gun by Grand Funk Railroad. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Don’T Let ‘Em Take Your Gun" means the words set to the music of Don’T Let ‘Em Take Your Gun, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Grand Funk Railroad. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Don’T Let ‘Em Take Your Gun and the lyrics to Don’T Let ‘Em Take Your Gun are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Grand Funk Railroad who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T Let ‘Em Take Your Gun, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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