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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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Composer’s original recording:
Arrangement for piano and tenor voice (as shown above):
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
“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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