MUSIC: Three Tune Tuesday 75 - 3 "Songs About Guns"! (2 Covers + 1 Original!)

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa.

This is my tenth week contributing to "Three Tunes Tuesday", started by @ablaze. It is week 75 overall!

I am trying to stick to a set pattern, where I perform 2 cover songs (written by famous artists) and 1 original song (written by me) around a theme. This week I've chosen the theme of "Songs about Guns"!

The first song is an absolute classic by Bob Marley, although it has also famously been covered by Eric Clapton. It is called "I Shot the Sheriff" - Here is the original by Bob Marley:

My second cover is a lot more serious. It is by Tracy Chapman, who I adore. When I was younger with a slightly higher pitch, I liked to imagine that my voice resembled hers a bit. Now I have taken her song "Bang Bang Bang" down a few semitones. Here is the original:

And now it's time for my original song! I should make a disclaimer that this is not my most serious song, and is another one of those that I use to lighten the mood. It is called "Shotgun Wedding" and my then-girlfriend, now wife, Julia helped me write the first few lines! Luckily, our own wedding was not a "Shotgun Wedding" (our baby daughter only showed up 7 years later) and my father-in-law loves me as his own son!

Before I go: Please look out for my weekly cover request post on Thursday! If you make a song request in the comments, and then I attempt the song, you get rewarded with 50% of that post's rewards in HP! Please have a think about what song you would like me to tackle for you?

**Lyrics for "Shotgun Wedding" by Jasper Dick

Looks like we cocked up
Looks like she'd knocked up
And the thing that we're dreading...
Is a shotgun wedding...
It's not as if we planned it
Her dad will demand it
With a shotgun to my head...
Hottest little girl I knew,
But daddy's little princess too,
That's my bun in the oven
When all I wanted was loving... yeah, Shotgun Wedding!

Now we'd better make a plan
Should I run or be a man?
Guess I'd better be a man,
'Coz daddy shot the last boy that ran...
It's not as if we planned it
Her dad will demand it
With a shotgun to my head...
Hottest little girl I knew,
But daddy's little princess too,
That's my bun in the oven
When all I wanted was loving... yeah, Shotgun Wedding!

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