Covers and Other Versions
The song title was parodied on The Daily Show on February 13, 2006; at one point, while Jon Stewart and his "correspondents" were mocking the Dick Cheney hunting incident, a placard displayed the caption "Cheney's Got a Gun." A parody song of that same name was written by Bob Rivers and is featured on the website atomfilms.com. Three other "Cheney's Got a Gun" parodies were submitted to the popular music parody website Amiright, along with the Bob Rivers version of the parody.
Another parody was "Elmo's Got a Gun" by Tommy & Rumble. It was about Sesame Street character Elmo going on a killing spree. It is often erroneously attributed to Weird Al. There are many fan-made videos of this on Youtube.
In Not Another Teen Movie (2001); Jake, played by Chris Evans, while trying to seduce a girl, is told to sing a song with the name (Janie Briggs) in it. Unfortunately, Jake sings "Janie's Got a Gun", which gets Janie Briggs arrested and tasered by campus police for suspicion of a concealed weapon.
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Famous quotes containing the words covers and/or versions:
“What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood. St. Peter’s cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)