We Both Reached For The Gun

Album: Chicago (1975)
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  • [Broadway Version]

    [Reporter]
    Where'd you come from?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Mississippi

    [Reporter]
    And your parents?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Very wealthy.

    [Reporter]
    Where are they now?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Six feet under.

    [Billy]
    But she was granted one more start

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    The convent of the sacred heart!

    [Reporter]
    When'd you get there?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    1920

    [Reporter]
    How old were you?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Don't remember

    [Reporter]
    Then what happened?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    I met Amos
    And he stole my hear away
    Convinced me to elope one day

    [Mary Sunshine]
    A convent girl! A run-away marriage! Oh, it's too terrible.
    You poor, poor dear.

    [Reporter]
    Who's Fred Casely?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    My ex-boy friend.

    [Reporter]
    Why'd you shoot him.

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    I was leavin'.

    [Reporter]
    Was he angry?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Like a madman!
    Still I said, "Fred, move along."

    [Billy]
    She knew that she was doin' wrong

    [Reporter]
    Then describe it

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    He came toward me.

    [Reporter]
    With a pistol?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    From my bureau

    [Reporter]
    Did you fight him?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Like a tiger

    [Billy]
    He had strength and she had none

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    And yet we both reached for the gun
    Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes we both
    Oh yes, we both
    Oh yes, we both reached for
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
    Oh yes, we both reached for the gun
    For the gun.

    [Billy and Reporter]
    Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both
    Oh yes, they both
    Oh yes, they both reached for
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
    Oh yes, they both reached for the gun
    For the gun.

    [Billy]
    Understandable, understandable
    Yes, it's perfectly understandable
    Comprehensible, comprehensible
    Not a bit reprehensible
    It's so defensible!

    [Reporter]
    How you're feeling?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Very frightened

    [Reporter]
    Are you sorry?

    [Roxie]
    Are you kidding?

    [Reporter]
    What's your statement?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    All I'd say is
    Though my choo-choo jumped my track
    I'd give my life to bring him back

    [Reporter]
    And?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Stay away from

    [Reporter]
    What?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Jazz and liquor

    [Reporter]
    And?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    And the man who

    [Reporter]
    What?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Play for fun

    [Reporter]
    And what?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    That's the thought that

    [Reporter]
    Yeah!

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    Came upon me

    [Reporter]
    When?

    [Billy (as Roxie)]
    When we both reached for the gun!

    [Mary Sunshine]
    Understandable, understandable

    [Billy and Mary Sunshine]
    Yes, it's perfectly understandable
    Comprehensible, comprehensible
    Not a bit reprehensible
    It's so defensible!

    [Reporter]
    Let me Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both
    Hear it! Oh yes, they both
    Oh yes, they both reached for
    The gun, the gun, the gun,
    The gun
    Oh yes, they both reached
    For the gun
    A little louder! For the gun.
    Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both
    Oh yes, they both
    Oh yes, they both reached
    For the gun, the gun,
    Now you got it! The gun, the gun
    Oh yes, they both reached
    For the gun
    For the gun.

    [Billy and Reporter]
    Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both
    Oh yes, they both
    Oh yes, they both reached for
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
    Oh yes, they both reached for the gun.

    Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both
    Oh yes, they both
    Oh yes, they both reached for
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun,
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun,
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun,
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun.

    [Billy]
    Both reached for the...gun

    [Reporter]
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
    The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
    Both reached for the gun.

    "Stop The Presses!"

    "'We Both Reached For The Gun,' Says Roxie!"

    "Dancing Feet Lead To Sorrow, Says Beautiful Jazz Slayer!"

    "Jazz And Liquor, Roxie's Downfall!" Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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