Sixty Eight Guns

Album: Declaration (1983)
Charted: 17 106
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  • Hey!

    And now they are trying to take my life away
    Forever young I cannot stay
    Hey!
    On every corner I can see them there
    They don't know my name, they don't know my kind
    They're after you with their promises
    (Promises of love) they're after you to sign your life away
    (Yeah, yeah)

    Sixty-eight guns will never die
    Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry
    Sixty-eight guns will never die
    Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry
    Sixty-eight guns
    Sixty-eight guns
    The sixty-eight

    Living in the backstreets
    That's our home from home
    The painted walls were all we've ever known
    'The Guns Forever' that's our battle cry
    It is the flag that we fly so high
    For every day they'll try and drag us down (drag us down and down)
    I cry with anger I have done no crime, no
    (Yeah, yeah)

    Sixty-eight guns will never die
    Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry
    Sixty-eight guns will never die
    Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry
    Sixty-eight guns
    Sixty-eight guns
    The sixty-eight guns

    Sixty-eight guns will never die
    Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry
    Sixty-eight guns will never die
    Sixty-eight guns, our battle cry
    Sixty-eight guns
    Sixty-eight guns
    The sixty-eight guns Writer/s: EDWARD JAMES MAC DONALD, MICHAEL LESLIE PETERS
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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