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Rat-a-tat-tat

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Rat-a-tat-tat

Composer’s original recording:

https://garyknowlesmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/01-Rat-a-tat-tat.mp3

Arrangement for piano and tenor voice (as shown above):

https://garyknowlesmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Rat-a-tat-tat.mp3

 

It’s a weapon mass destruction

In our homes with instructions

Squeeze the trigger bullets fly

They will scatter many die

In a battle very useful

In a church only shameful

What it’s called? A R Fifteen

Made to kill, a war machine

Congress says they won’t do nothin’

They’re afraid to go do somethin’

They’ll lose favor with the N R A

Fifty shots instead of five shots

guaranteed to kill a whole lot

what is with morality today

Go ahead and buy a hand gun

Hunting rifle you can have one

Find a range and go and have some fun

It’s your right to own a weapon

But just stop and think a second

What the A R Fifteen’s gone and done?

Rat-a-tat-tat who would be living

if those bullets were not taking

many many many lives away?

Money does a lot of talkin’

Many now are dead men walkin’

When the A R Fifteen starts to spray

Sandy Hook and then Orlando

Texas and the Vegas venue

Congress says let’s pray

then looks away

Rat a tat tat goes on the slaughter

Rat a tat tat our sons and daughters

mothers fathers husbands wives our friends

Congress says they won’t do nothin’

They’re afraid to go do somethin’

They’ll lose favor with the N R A

Fifty shots instead of five shots

guaranteed to kill a whole lot

what more can we say?

Dying in the good ol’ U S A

Categories: Secular, Social Issues
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“Rat-a-tat-tat” is a sardonic take on America’s gun problem from composer Gary Knowles, with a wry and sinister arrangement by Jon Burr.

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