You Can't Get a Man with a Gun
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"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin. It was originally performed by Ethel Merman.
Other singers to have recorded the song include Betty Hutton, Bernadette Peters and Judy Garland.
In the song, Annie Oakley sings about how a girl with talent as a sharpshooter nevertheless finds that her abilities don't help her attract men. She introduces herself with: "I'm quick on the trigger/with targets not much bigger/than a pinpoint I'm number one." The song is humorous in that Annie imagines different scenarios in which shooting a man won't make him fall in love with you. "A man may be hot/but he's not/when he's shot/oh, you can't get a man with a gun!"
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