# bazooka song

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-song/69625>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 21, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-song/69625 "2001-06-21T14:45:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![justinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@justinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justinh)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-song/69625/1 "2001-06-21T14:45:51Z")

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I heard a song on the radio a while back with the phrase something like “if I had a bazooka,I would blow you away”. and it was a love song! good music. was I dreaming or is this an actual song?

one more song, please. this is a live song I think. the singer plays all of these other guitar styles while anouncing their names.

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**Author:** ![\_authority](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e56c9b/32.png) [@\_authority](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_authority)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-song/69625/2 "2001-06-21T14:56:26Z")

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IF I HAD A ROCKET LAUNCHER - BRUCE COCKBURN

[http://members.tripod.com/esmeralda75/MyWorld/Rocket.htm](http://members.tripod.com/esmeralda75/MyWorld/Rocket.htm)

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**Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-song/69625/3 "2001-06-21T15:01:27Z")

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as for the other, Bill Kirchen [http://www.billkirchen.com/](http://www.billkirchen.com/)  
the song is “Hot Rod Lincon-Live” on the album of the same name.

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**Author:** ![justinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@justinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justinh)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-song/69625/4 "2001-06-21T15:27:07Z")

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?authority,  
thanks youre amazing. change your name to “amazing larry”.  
do you know where I left my car keys with the swiss army knife?  
the rocket launcher song is great guitar. is his other stuff as good guitar? sounds Neil Youngish.(my hero)

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**Author:** ![\_authority](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e56c9b/32.png) [@\_authority](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_authority)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-song/69625/5 "2001-06-21T15:43:13Z")

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Check the ignition, or maybe the pants you had on last Tuesday.

Bill Kirchen is great, he is local to my area and I love to go see him play.

As for Bruce Cockburn, I always thought he sounded more Velvet Underground, I don’t really know a lot of his work but have always liked “Rocket Launcher” the part at the end about “some son of a bitch will pay”.

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**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bazooka-song/69625/6 "2001-06-21T15:50:12Z")

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My personal favorite take on this is the alternate (live I think) version of **If I Had A Million Dollars** by _Barenaked Ladies_. It ends:

“If I had a million dollars, some son of a bitch would die”