John Hiatt's sales have never quite matched his reputation. Hiatt's songs were covered successfully by everyone from Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Milsap, and Dr. Feelgood to Iggy Pop, Three Dog Night, and the Neville Brothers, yet it took him 13 years to reach the charts himself. Of course, it nearly took him that long to find his own style. Hiatt began his solo career in 1974, and over the next decade he ran through a number of different styles from rock & roll to new wave pop before he finally settled on a rootsy fusion of rock & roll, country, blues, and folk with his 1987 album Bring the Family.
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I Got A Gun Lyrics
John Hiatt
She took some blood and tears
From an old fruit jar
She rubbed it on her belly
Where he left his scars
Shes such a fragile thing
Like pigeon bones
He couldnt whip my little brother
He wouldnt leave her alone
So if you see that man
Done these things to her
Tell him, hed better run
I got a gun
I got a gun yall
Justice will be done
I got a gun, got a gun
They say a man with a weapon
He gets 99 years
But I would give my life
To wash away her tears
So if you see that man
Done these things to her
Tell him, hed better run
I got a gun
I got a gun yall
Justice will be done
I got a gun, got a gun
Now I never looked at a pistol
But now I lost my grip
The judge would only give him a slap on the wrist
I aint had it very long
But now its in my hand
She took her very last whippin from that spineless man
I got a gun
I got a gun yall
Justice will be done
I got a gun, got a gun