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You Gotta Be Joking?

by Billyana

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'Gotta Be Joking' I wrote in Jan 2018 about the ongoing gun wars in the USA after watching Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine', a very disturbing and clever expose of the ongoing gun crisis in the USA. Over 70,000 people are shot each year in the USA, in the name of so called personal freedom.

Restricting easy access to automatic weapons has got to be one of many steps to help control the insane carnage - love you America - but what the hell are you doing to eachother?

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YOU GOTTA BE JOKING?

I hear the USA’s a bloody war zone
Is no-one safe inside their own home?

As you lie here hardly breathing
Message clear are you receiving?
Over 70,000 shot each year
You need protection from yourselves I fear

You gotta be joking
You can’t win this civil war
Tell me who the enemy is
And what you’re fighting for?

This place not even safe for a cowboy
Watch out – a barrel pointing at you now boy
The USA gun crazy
It’s just a point of view and not yours maybe?

The Second Amendment - great protector?
School and church with gun detector
Again the President frowns and shows dismay
But mixing bullets and chalk is not okay!
(Why are they scared to front the NRA?)

You gotta be joking!
Are you serious or not?
You can’t solve your problems with a piece of lead

You gotta be joking!
Is this the American Dream?
Wake up Washington
A Hollywood nightmare on your screen

As you lie here slowly bleeding, message clear – are you receiving?
As you lie here hardly breathing, message clear – are you receiving?

You gotta be joking?
70,000 shot each year in the USA – men, women and children
Whatta you fighting for?
This place not even safe for a cowboy
Watchout a barrel pointed at you now boy!

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released June 16, 2022
Words and Music: Billyana (Bill Tatnell)
Electric guitar, cigar box, keyboard, vocals: Bill Tatnell
Recorded at BT home studio
Final mix by Terry Latham, Impromptu Studios, Newcastle, Australia

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Billyana Newcastle, Australia

Music inspired by the desert, the coast, and its people.

Written and performed by Billyana on a range of stringed, wind and skin instruments.

Influences include: Ben Howard, Cohen, Knopfler, Young with some Spanish and Irish undertones. ... more

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