Thursday, June 02, 2022

The U.S. Holy Gun Blues


I got the U.S. Blues all right,
The ones the Grateful Dead
Used to sing so well
PLUS a whole lot more,
A whole ‘nother level of blues,
The Holy Gun Blues from Hell:

The blues of a parent
Whose child’s been blown away
By a mad young man who’s allowed
To buy a weapon only a real trained
Military killer ought to carry.

I got the no background checks
blues, the crazy hate blues,
The we just don’t give a crap blues,
The moneyed pockets of politicians who
Are in the pockets of the NRA
And gunmakers blues.

I got the Total Dumass Holy Gun
Worshippers Blues, the twisted meaning
2nd Amendment blues misconstrued
By people who never faced hostile fire
And never lost a son or daughter
To bullets from an automatic blues weapon
& will never be in any formal militia but
The Money Militia.

Yeah, I got the U.S. blues all right,
I got the phony views 
Of why we are so beset with 
So many children’s murders, the
We let anyone carry a Holy Gun 
Death stick blues. 


Bob Loomis
06-02-2022
In Memory f the Uvalde, TX mass shoting victims.

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