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There's a Gun Still Smoking in Nashville

from Love In The Hot Afternoon by Vicki Lawrence

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    The Eddie Capra Mysteries is a 1978–1979 United States mystery television series starring Vincent Baggetta as a lawyer who investigates murders and has a knack for solving them. Original episodes aired from September 8, 1978, to January 12, 1979

    Taken from the episode, "Murder on the Flip Side":

    A young secretary hears a recording-company executive call for help from his office and finds him dead, having both suffered a gunshot wound and taken a drink from a glass of poisoned liquor. She becomes the main witness in the executive's murder, but then comes under suspicion herself when the owner of the record label is found stabbed to death in her bathtub. Eddie sets out to prove her innocence, and his investigation reveals that she could not have killed the record-label owner because that murder occurred while the police were interviewing her; he also discovers that the two murder victims were involved in a feud over a crooked record deal. Vicki Lawrence, Dick Haymes, Mel Carter, Joanna Miles, Andrew Robinson, and Rick Springfield guest-star.

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Recorded during 1976, "There's a Gun Still Smokin' in Nashville" was the second two-sided single issued by Private Stock Records (following 1975's "The Other Woman"). The song "Mama's Gonna Make It All Better" (from 1974's "Ships in the Night") served as the 45's B-Side.

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She was sixteen on her own
With no place to call her home
She had the dreams of a child
But the heart of a woman turned to stone
And every night she slept
She never woke up alone
When Annie was around, she'd get the party going on

She fell in love with a man who knew her past
But only asked her stay by him
A few years went by, a child came
And so did her bad ways again
And one night when she was more than lonely
She called an old obliging friend
And while they held each other
The man who really loved her happened to walk in

Chorus:
Tonight there's a gun still smoking in Nashville
And Annie's dying in bed
He pulled that gun from the closet
And put a bullet in her head
And his child cried, "Daddy, what you do that for?"
But he didn't hear the words he said
All he saw was his wife with another man lying naked in his bed

Well, they buried Annie two days later
In the early morning dew
And the little boy was crying for his mama
And so was his daddy, too
And he said, "Son, I'll get back to you,
God willing, in a year or two
Try to forgive me, 'cause all I got is you."

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from Love In The Hot Afternoon, track released June 1, 1977
Written by John Durrill

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Vicki Lawrence Inglewood, California

Vicki Lawrence is an American actress, comedian, and pop singer known for the many characters she originated on The Carol Burnett Show, where she appeared from 1967 to 1978, for the entire series run. One such character, "The Family" matriarch Mrs.Thelma Harper, later was the central character of the television situation comedy series Mama's Family on NBC and, later, in first-run syndication. ... more

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