Machine gun Tearing my body all apart Machine gun Tearing my body all apart Evil man make evil kill you And they make evil kill me Even though we're only families apart ♪ Blowing away all my family My only mother's child Blowing away all my family My mother's only child Don't you understand machine gun That's the same way you'd be gone after a while Three times the pain All across your brain ♪ Hoping y'all understands a mother Serving clothes in the sun to fight the war I said I'm her lover baby We will just try to fight the war So shoot while I'm close within I'm not afraid to shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot some more ♪ Well, I'll pick up my axe and sometimes fight like a farmer And you'll shoot me down right back to the ground (Shoot him down, shoot him down, shoot him down) Pick up my axe and fight like a farmer Will be right back now on the rest I was working on (Don't you shoot me down, don't you shoot me down) The same way you shoot me down, baby You'll be going just the same Three times the pain Hey, machine gun ♪ Thank you very much