Gun Song Songtext
von Stephen Sondheim

It takes a lot of men to make a gun
Hundreds
Many men to make a gun
Men in the mines to take the iron
Men at the mills to forge the steel
Men at machines to turn the barrel
Mold the trigger
Shape the wheel
I takes a lot of men to make a gun
One gun

And all you have to do is move your little finger
Move your little finger and
You can change the world
Why should you be blue
When you′ve your little finger?
Prove how just a little finger
Can change the world (I hate this gun!)


What a wonder is a gun
What a versatile invention
First of all when you've a gun
Everybody pays attention
When you think what must be done
Think of all that it can do
Remove a scoundrel
Unite a party
Preserve the Union
Promote the sales of my book
Insure my future
My niche in history
And then the world will see
That I am not a man to overlook, ha ha

And all you have to do is squeeze your little finger
Ease your little finger back
You can change the world
Whatever else is true
You trust your little finger
Just a single little finger can change the world (change the world)


I got this really great gun
Shit, where is it?
No, it′s really great- wait
Shit, where is it?
Anyway, it's just a .38
But it's a gun
You can make a statement- wrong
With a gun
Even if you fail
It tells them who you are
Where you stand
This one was on sale, it
No, not the shoe
Well, actually, the shoe was too
No, that′s not it
Shit, I had it here
Got it
Yeah! There it is

And all you have to do is crook your little finger
Hook your little finger ′round

Shit, I shot it

You can change the world (change the world)
Simply follow through
And look, your little finger can

Slow them down (hmm)

To a crawl (mm)

Show them all (mm)

Big and small (mm)

It took a little finger no time to
Hmm-mm change the world

A gun kills many men before it's done
Hundreds
Long before you shoot the gun
Men in the mines
And in the steel mills
Men at machines who died
For what?
Something to buy
A watch, a shoe, a gun
A thing to make the bosses richer
But a gun claims many men before it′s done
Just one more