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The La's (Band)

Son Of A Gun (Mike Hedges Version)

Release date: 7th April 2008

From The La’s [Deluxe Edition]

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About This Track

"Son Of A Gun (Mike Hedges Version)" is a track by The La's (Band), from the album The La’s [Deluxe Edition], released 7th April 2008. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Son Of A Gun (Mike Hedges Version)

If you want I'll sell you a life story

About a man who's at loggerheads

With his past all the time

He's alive and living in purgatory

All he's doing is rooming in hotels

And scooping up lots of wine

There was once a boy of life

Who lived upon a knife

He took his share of everywhere

But he never took a wife...

He was born to live like a mercenary

Well personally I think that's fine

If you're in the right mind

He was burned by the twentieth century

Now he's doing time

In the back of his mind

He can hear them outside

Better run, rabbit run

Run into the sun

Kick your heels in the killing fields

Run rabbit run

You're a son of a gun

He was born to live like a mercenary

Well personally I think that's fine

If you're in the right mind

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Track details

From The La’s [Deluxe Edition]

2008

Album

The La’s [Deluxe Edition]

The La's (Band)

Release year

2008

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—I Can't Sleep (Jeremy Allom Version)
—Clean Prohpet (Bob Andrews Version)
—Feelin' (Mike Hedges Version)
—Doledrum (Mike Hedges Version)
—I Can't Sleep (Mike Hedges Version)
—Feelin' (Bob Andrews Version)
—I Can't Sleep (Gary Crowley, GLR Session Dec '88)
—Clean Prophet (Mike Hedges Version)
—Doledrum (John Porter Mix Version)
—Knock Me Down (Mike Hedges Version)
—Man I'm Only Human (John Leckie Version)
—I.O.U. (Mike Hedges Version)
—I Am The Key (Key 103, Jan '89)
—Failure (Mike Hedges Version)
—There She Goes (Mike Hedges Version)
—Looking Glass (Mike Hedges Version)
—That'll Be The Day (BBC2 The Late Show '89)
—Son Of A Gun (Gary Crowley, GLR Session Dec '88)
—Son Of A Gun (Mike Hedges Version)
—There She Goes (John Leckie Version)
—Way Out (Key 103, Jan '89)
—Way Out (Mike Hedges Version)
—Timeless Melody (Mike Hedges Version)
—Way Out (Andy MacDonald Version)

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