Buy a gun for you son (LP版)-Tom Paxton

[ti:buy a gun for you son] [ar:Tom Paxton] [al:Ain't That News (US Release)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Buy a gun for you son (LP版) - Tom Paxton [00:02.68]Hallelujah Dads and Mommies [00:04.24]Cowboys Rebels Yanks and Commies [00:06.24]Buy yourselves some real red blooded fun [00:09.51] [00:10.12]If you want to make the grade [00:11.93]You've got to have a hand grenade [00:13.52] [00:14.13]And a fully automatic G I Gun [00:17.50]Buy a gun for your son right away Sir [00:21.68]Shake his hand like a man and let him play Sir [00:25.59]Let his little mind expand Place a weapon in his hand [00:29.59]For the skills he learns today will someday pay Sir [00:33.88]Pound that kid into submission [00:35.91]'Till he's mastered Nuclear Fission [00:37.83]Buy him plastic warheads by the score [00:41.30] [00:41.92]Once he's got the taste of blood [00:43.80]He's gonna sneak up on his buddies [00:45.87]Starting his own thermo-nuclear war [00:49.33]Buy a gun for your son right away Sir [00:53.29]Shake his hand like a man and let him play Sir [00:57.21]Let his little mind expand Place a weapon in his hand [01:01.25]For the skills he learns today will someday pay Sir [01:05.29]Buy him khakis and fatigues [01:07.59]And sign him up in little leagues [01:09.59]Give him calisthenics as a rule [01:13.20]Once you've banished fear and dread [01:15.45]Then pat his seven year-old head [01:17.60]And send him off to military school [01:21.04]Buy a gun for your son right away Sir [01:25.03]Shake his hand like a man and let him play Sir [01:28.92]Let his little mind expand Place a weapon in his hand [01:32.82]For the skills he learns today will someday pay Sir [01:37.57]Once he's grown to be a man [01:39.04]He might get tired of blasting Granny [01:41.30]Then you'll see a crisis coming on [01:44.26] [01:45.32]Don't get worried don't get nervous [01:47.30]Send that kid into the service [01:49.34]Let him rise into the Pentagon [01:52.47] [01:53.33]At the Pentagon he'll rise [01:55.18]The President he will advise [01:57.15]His reputation growing all the while [02:01.14]With his picture on the wall [02:02.92]He'll get that long-awaited call [02:05.17]And press the firing buttons with a smile [02:08.61]Buy a gun for your son right away Sir [02:12.57]Shake his hand like a man and let him play Sir [02:16.76]Let his little mind expand Place a weapon in his hand [02:20.56]For the skills he learns today will someday pay Sir