I'm Your Gun - Jethro Tull

Blew my smoke on a sunny day

When the first black powder came my way

Hot lead ball from a muzzle cold ---

To win fair lady and take your gold

I know it hardly seems the time ---

(I am your gun)

To talk of blue steel so sublime

I can understand your point of view

To tell the truth I’d scare me too

Match, wheel and flintlock, they all caught your eye

Pearl-handled ladies' models, scaled down to size

I am the peacemaker, so the theory goes

But I don’t choose the company I keep ---

And it shows

I am your gun

Love me, I’m your gun

Maxim and Browning, they helped me along

Stoner, Kalashnikov --- thrilled to my song

Now one of me exists, for each one of you

So how can you blame me for the things that I do?

Now I take second place to the motor car

In the score of killing kept thus far

And just remember, if you don’t mind ---

It’s not the gun that kills but the man behind

I am your gun