Put That Pistol Down

It was a Friday afternoon breezy and cool

When I saw this girl on her way back home from school

Sweet sixteen and swaying as she moved

To the zouk music laying down a lovers' groove

As she passed me by I could not help but smile

At this beautiful woman who was still only a child

She caught my eye and grinned and shook her head

And then she spoke to me and this is what she said

Oh uncle won't you put that pistol down

Uncle please put that pistol down

I'm still too young to go out on the town

So uncle please put that pistol down

I went down to the seashore to check the swell

I thought I'd bring my board out for a spell

Standing at a coconut stall wetting my throat

I saw a woman coming to meet a fisher boat

She was beautiful and walked just like a queen

The prettiest woman I had ever seen

With her basket of fish balanced on her head

She passed me by and said

Oh uncle won't you put that pistol down

Uncle please put that pistol down

I'm not the kind of woman to roam around

So uncle please put that pistol down

On my way back home sometime after four

I stopped to get a drink at the corner store

Two friends were arguing why heaven knows

Soon it turned physical, they came to blows

Pushing each other around in the parking lot

Shouting and swearing, the tension was hot

I saw one guy take a mighty blow to his head

As they pulled out their guns I stopped and I said

Woah woah woah woah

Uncle won't you put that pistol down

Put that pistol down

Uncle please put that pistol down

Put that pistol down

Talk it over and tomorrow you can still be friends

Put that pistol down

But if you shoot it out that's how it ends

Put that pistol down

I got back home and turned on the TV news

Everyone was shouting so many points of view

I sat down to eat but before I could take a bite

I saw such visions of war that I lost my appetite

In the rubble of a town the bodies were strewn all around

Stray dogs were wandering, digging at the ground

A mother staggering carrying her dead child

Screaming out in a voice painful and wild

I say uncle won't you put that pistol down

Uncle please put that pistol down

This poor mother's heart has turned to stone

All that's left of her child is flesh and bone

The world is getting harder every single day

Oh harder

Innocence and joy slips away

What the world needs right now is peace, love and harmony

True humanity without any boundary

Woah sing it now!

So uncle won't you put that pistol down

Uncle please put that pistol down

The world is crying

Livin' under, we're livin' under

Livin' under, we're livin' under

Livin' under a gun

I say uncle won't you put that pistol down

Oh uncle please put that pistol down

Talk it over and tomorrow you can still be friends

So uncle please put your weapons away

Put away your gun live as one

Put away your gun live as one

I say put away your gun we can live as one

Put away your gun we can live as one

Put away put away put away put away put away

Put away your gun

Put away put away put away put away put away

Put away your gun

Put away put away put away put away put away

Put away your gun

Put away put away put away put away put away

Put away your gun