Lyrics:

(Strummer/Jones)





Tommy gun – you ain't happy ‘less he got one

Tommy gun – ain't gonna shoot the place up just for fun

Maybe he wants to die for the money

Maybe he wants to kill for his country

Whatever he wants, he's gonna get it



Tommy gun – you better strip down for a custom run

Tommy gun – waiting at the airport ‘till Kingdom Come

An' we can watch you make it on the nine o'clock news

Standing there in Palestine lighting a fuse

Whatever you want, you're gonna get it



Tommy gun

Tommy gun



Tommy gun – a-you'll be dead when you war is won

Tommy gun – but did you have to gun down everyone?

I can see its kill or be killed

A nation of destiny has got to be fulfilled

Whatever you want, you're gonna get it



Tommy gun – a-you can be hero in an age of none

Tommy gun – I'm cutting out your picture from page one

I'm gonna a get a jacket just like yours

An' give my false support to your cause

Whatever you want, you're gonna get it

All right!



Okay, so let's agree about the price

An' make it one jet airliner for ten prisoners

And boats and tanks and planes, it's your game

Kinds and Queens and Generals, learn your name

I see the innocents, the human sacrifice

And if death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life