Gunpowder & Lead
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| “Gunpowder & Lead” | |||||
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| Single by Miranda Lambert from the album Crazy Ex-Girlfriend |
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| Released | 2008 | ||||
| Format | CD Single | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 3:12 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Nashville | ||||
| Writer(s) | Miranda Lambert Heather Little |
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| Producer | Frank Liddell Mike Wrucke |
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"Gunpowder & Lead" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Miranda Lambert on her 2007 album Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The album's third single, it is also the third song of her career to reach Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and is her highest charting single to date.
The song is a moderate up-tempo focusing on the narrator, who tells of her plans to shoot her abusive husband once he is let out of jail:
- "I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
- Wait by the door and light a cigarette
- He wants a fire, well, now he's got one
- And he ain't seen me crazy yet
- Slapped my face and he shook me like a rag doll
- Don't that sound like a real man?
- I'm gonna show him what a little girl's made of
- Gunpowder & lead"
The music video for Gunpowder & Lead is a live performance. On CMT.com, there are videos for the song from live performances at the CMA Music Festival and CMT Cross Roads.
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 12 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 70 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 84 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 66 |
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