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BigmanPigman

(52,995 posts) Wed Oct 4, 2017, 01:00 PM Oct 2017

Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles.

John Lennon was anti gun and wrote this song after seeing the title on a gun magazine and thought it was an insane thing to say since it means you just shot something or someone. A few years later he told Dick Cavett that he "would probably get killed by being shot by a fan".

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Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles. (Original Post) BigmanPigman Oct 2017 OP

Great song with multiple interpretations. chelsea0011 Oct 2017 #1

I was hosting an acoustic open mic night with a buddy Glamrock Oct 2017 #2

chelsea0011

(10,123 posts)

1. Great song with multiple interpretations.

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Wed Oct 4, 2017, 01:09 PM

Oct 2017

Glamrock

(12,000 posts)

2. I was hosting an acoustic open mic night with a buddy

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Mon Oct 16, 2017, 01:31 AM

Oct 2017

when the Cheney administration bombed Iraq. It was on the tv and I looked at the guitar player and asked, "Happiness?" Seemed like the right song at the moment.....

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