Tom: Em
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[Verse 1]
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I was born in the blast of a furnace of steel
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And I wondered what shape I would be
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I was hard, I was cold, I was just a day old
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And I wondered what future I'd see
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Then a rough pair of hands fashioned peaces of steel
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And a handle of smooth silky wood
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And an arm held me out
While the eye of the man
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kept staring as hard as he could
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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I was fitted with bullets, with jackets of steel
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And then taken outside in the light
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Then he aimed me direct at a man on a horse
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And his hands squeezed me tighter than tight
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A bursting of fire exploded inside me sent
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flying a comet of heat
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As the smoke cleared the way
I could see straight ahead
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the man who layed dead in the street
[Chorus]
Em
I'm a gun, I'm a gun
G B
Til the day that man destroys me I'm a gun
Em
It's not the gun that kills a man
Am C
It's the man who fires the gun that kills a man
B Em D Em
It's not the gun that kills a man
[Interlude]
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G Gb Fm
[Verse 3]
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I tried to call out but my steel has no tongue
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And to men I am only a slave
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I've never forgotten that terrible day
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And that man that I couldn't save
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No one knows what it means to be held in a hand
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To be pointed and triggered to kill
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To be labeled a gun with no power to stop
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All the blood that man shooting will spill
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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It's a pity a man cannot live to the the
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Ache of a mountain the desert or the sea
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Only then would he learn that to kill or be killed
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Wasn't something that need to be
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Maybe someday somehow when all men will meet
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They will bury their guns in the ground
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I hope that they bury me deep so deep
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So deepthat I'm never be found
[Chorus 2]
Fm
I'm a gun, I'm a gun
Ab C
Til the day that man destroys me I'm a gun
Fm
It's not the gun that kills a man
Bbm Db
It's the man who fires the gun that kills a man
C Fm
It's not the gun that kills a man
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G Gb Fm
I'm a gun
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A gun
