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sl8

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18. Good eye!
Sat Jun 15, 2019, 09:56 PM
Jun 2019


When I woke up this morning
I found myself alone
I turned to touch her hair, but she was gone
She was gone
And there beside my pillow
Were her tears from the night before
She said, give up your guns and face the law
I robbed a bank in Tampa
And I thought I had it made
But the hounds picked up my trail within the glades
So I ran
And I stumbled on this cabin
And she came to me once more
She said, give up your guns and face the law
I don't wanna leave her
I don't wanna die
Deep within a cold, cold grave
With no one 'round to cry
But I have got my pistol
Now it's time to choose
Shooting here or hanging there
And either way I lose
And now, I'm in this cabin
Where my own true love should be
Instead, there lies a note she wrote to me
And it says
No, you can't live by the bullet
But you sure as death can die
My love, give up your guns or say goodbye, goodbye
And the sheriff now is calling
With his shotgun at my door
Son, give up your guns and face the law

Songwriters: R. Holmes / D. Jordan
Give Up Your Guns lyrics © S.I.A.E. Direzione Generale, Music Sales Corporation
Sometimes they were refused air play, ala 'Teen Angel' empedocles Jun 2019 #1
Full disclosure: I owned that on a 45 when I was in high school. Arkansas Granny Jun 2019 #31
tell laura I love her msongs Jun 2019 #2
In 1960 in Catholic school our nun let us bring records to play on Fridays. One song was about a guy wasupaloopa Jun 2019 #3
Pearl Jam did a great cover of Last Kiss... Drunken Irishman Jun 2019 #32
J.Frank Wilson and Last Kiss. We have a winner. n/t. argyl Jun 2019 #37
J. Frank Wilson was born in my hometown Jane Austin Jun 2019 #54
Oh Jeez. That song still makes me tear up. nt LNM Jun 2019 #52
D.O.A. by Bloodrock House of Roberts Jun 2019 #4
I just came back to post this iwillalwayswonderwhy Jun 2019 #8
That is one song ChazII Jun 2019 #27
He says there's no chance for me. Arkansas Granny Jun 2019 #30
You're Dead -- Norma Tanega -- 1966 Freelancer Jun 2019 #5
Leader Of The Pack Ptah Jun 2019 #6
That song.. cannabis_flower Jun 2019 #20
The motorcycle guy is a dead-ringer for Stephen Colbert Zambero Jun 2019 #23
And the sequel ... sl8 Jun 2019 #25
Some Velvet Morning -- Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood -- 1966? Freelancer Jun 2019 #7
I think it was because we thought we were going to burn up in a mushroom cloud any day, wasupaloopa Jun 2019 #9
Slightly different. . . . . .but 1960s. Hoyt Jun 2019 #10
One of my favorite Byrds songs! I thought this 80's Ultravox song about a nuclear 50 Shades Of Blue Jun 2019 #26
One of those songs I had to jump up to replay it several times. Like song you posted. Hoyt Jun 2019 #33
Fever Ray -- Keep the Streets Empty for Me Freelancer Jun 2019 #11
Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Talahatchie Bridge about then right? JDC Jun 2019 #12
'67 Lochloosa Jun 2019 #22
Pull the Plug - Starz sl8 Jun 2019 #13
gooey teenage death songs we used to call them rurallib Jun 2019 #14
My parents called them Dead Teenager Songs. Iggo Jun 2019 #56
I think this is the first one I ever heard. japple Jun 2019 #15
This is from 2000, so it doesn't quite meet the criterion, but here it is anyway. cos dem Jun 2019 #16
Another spoof, this one obvious. Iggo Jun 2019 #57
Jan & Dean's Deadman's Curve japple Jun 2019 #17
Good eye! sl8 Jun 2019 #18
Run Joey Run Eugene Jun 2019 #19
Patches Zambero Jun 2019 #21
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers (1964) subterranean Jun 2019 #24
Seasons in the Sun oregonjen Jun 2019 #28
Laurie (aka Strange Things Happen in This World) dflprincess Jun 2019 #29
The long black veil! Mopar151 Jun 2019 #34
oh yeah Grasswire2 Jun 2019 #35
here's a cheesy death ballad for ya Amyishere Jun 2019 #36
"Billy and Sue" by BJ Thomas and the Dakotas, and "The Wreck on the Highway" by The Louvin Bros. NBachers Jun 2019 #38
"Tom Dooley" by Kingston Trio riverwalker Jun 2019 #39
Link riverwalker Jun 2019 #40
The Severed Garden... Aristus Jun 2019 #41
What's that song where she keeps wailing "Let it please be him, oh dear lord it must be him..." Grasswire2 Jun 2019 #42
"It Must Be Him" by Viki Carr; another in that vein is "Wives and Lovers" by Jack Jones, a Burt NBachers Jun 2019 #46
Vicki Carr '67 shanny Jun 2019 #53
"Town Without Pity" Gene Pitney KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #43
That 'so felt' Pitney voice! empedocles Jun 2019 #44
Yes, and that song "Only Love Can Break A Heart"...... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #45
Excitable Boy and Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon DFW Jun 2019 #47
Thanks, those are favorites discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2019 #62
Classics DFW Jun 2019 #63
Bobby Goldsboro and "Honey". llmart Jun 2019 #48
Oops, I posted this one, too; didn't see your post. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #66
This one pressbox69 Jun 2019 #49
Rupert Holmes wrote Timothy gratuitous Jun 2019 #50
Nervous Norvus - Transfusion (1956) WheelWalker Jun 2019 #51
I thought I posted this before, Corgigal Jun 2019 #55
Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald Mendocino Jun 2019 #58
Song for Adam -- Jackson Browne Zorro Jun 2019 #59
Everly Brothers-"Down in the River Garden" Doc_Technical Jun 2019 #60
Billy Don't Be a Hero... hunter Jun 2019 #61
Leadfoot Marthe48 Jun 2019 #64
"Honey" Bobby Goldsboro. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #65
Wildfire TuxedoKat Jun 2019 #67
Here's a gloom and room song from the 60s cannabis_flower Jun 2019 #68
The End - The Doors Dire Wolf - The Dead. nt UniteFightBack Jun 2019 #69
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