I’ve Got a Gun
Songs of peace are a significant part of the CD “Womansongs / Peacesongs” and I’ve got a gun sounds like children arguing but also amazingly like nations threatening.
I’ve got a gun —— well I’ve got a tank —— well I’ve got a sub —— and on and on it goes. In this song it ends with a neutron bomb and in reality who knows the horrors the could be still to come if we don’t put a stop to it.
Even the building of greater weapons has environmental implications.
The song ends with “Who will be first?” And isn’t that the question.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said: We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
I wrote this not with a pie-in-the-sky attitude but with a strong conviction that we have to go the distance in negotiation and cut back drastically in bullying and bluster.
It takes really courageous and brave leaders to say: “Let’s meet and talk.”
