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gp 29th September 2025 06:34 PM

and now something complete different...☺☻☺
 
Why not bring a nice tune into the forum...?
Songs with weapons in the lyrics;

Jimi Hendrix’ Machine Gun came to my mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLI8...&start_radio=1
but that is not a cold weapon, so lets stick to the latter

like these examples:

Oaks Family Wake Up, You Drowsy Sleeper (1930) “I then take out my silver dagger”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX7MfJM19JU

Lizzy’s Whiskey in the Jar ” and then produced my rapier “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WDS...&start_radio=1


Mack The Knife of the Dreigroschenoper / three penny opera “a jackknife has old MacHeath / Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMWc...&start_radio=1

Dire Straits - Six Blade Knife “Everybody got a knife”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzaa...&start_radio=1

Sheath and Knife - a traditional folk song, “I lost the sheath that the knife was in."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B7Kz6rESAA

The Kingston Trio Tom Dooley “Stabbed her with my knife”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zdE8bliGI

Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ayw...&start_radio=1

A Song of Swords (G.K. Chesterton Poem)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avwj...&start_radio=1

“Ballad of the Last Knife Fighter”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QvQY4V_m3E

John Kirk Barlow Knife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR3yL92vVnw

Willie Coleman’s/Pull The Knife And Stick It Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4qflFfkvCM

if the forum is interested, why not give it a shot gents,
please go ahead and don't exaggerate in modesty

kahnjar1 29th September 2025 08:40 PM

and another....
 
MACK the KNIFE by several artists over the years.

A. G. Maisey 30th September 2025 04:13 AM

Post removed.

Cannot get the links to work, so just a couple of pointers:-

Bob Dylan
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the knife
&
Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the back

Bob Dylan
Lily of the West
I stepped up to my rival my dagger in my hand


This link works
The Ludlow Group
The Butcher Boy
he took his knife and he cut her down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD8D...&start_radio=1

gp 30th September 2025 02:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey (Post 299985)
Post removed.

Cannot get the links to work, so just a couple of pointers:-

Bob Dylan
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the knife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agdoeRpTfHg

Quote:

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey (Post 299985)
Bob Dylan
Lily of the West
I stepped up to my rival my dagger in my hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eesq...&start_radio=1

gp 30th September 2025 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kahnjar1 (Post 299975)
MACK the KNIFE by several artists over the years.


the original by Lotte Lenya ( the spousse of Kurt Weil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPG9...&start_radio=1


Bobby Darin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=557l...&start_radio=1


Louis Armstrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0O...&start_radio=1

Ella Fitzgerald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYaE...&start_radio=1

Frank Sinatra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82kJ...&start_radio=1

Mackie Messer

Gunhild Carling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG8J...&start_radio=1

Hildegard Knef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeQG...&start_radio=1


NINA HAGEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TonSwuQoEDQ

Sting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YokJ...&start_radio=1

drac2k 1st October 2025 02:44 PM

How about "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner," by Warren Zevon?

Tim Simmons 1st October 2025 03:37 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqxATLrWsCg:) Sorry I'll get my coat .

gp 1st October 2025 09:59 PM

to keep it goin'....


The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Delilah (And I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBYo...&start_radio=1


T. Rex - Lean Woman Blues lyrics (And when you gorge me with a knife)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8CG...&start_radio=1


Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Hobo-Ism (Wouldn't you think I'd have a pocket knife)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4BV...&start_radio=1

Tom Waits - Don’t Go into That Barn (Did you bring your knife)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ4S...&start_radio=1


Stones - Midnight Rambler (Or just a knife sharpened)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Tb...&start_radio=1

gp 1st October 2025 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drac2k (Post 300006)
How about "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner," by Warren Zevon?


why not ?! or what 'bout his song "Life'll Kill Ya" (Some get the knife, some get the gun. And some get to die )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B78arywzMdk


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