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.
Read more about this topic: Janie's Got A Gun
Famous quotes containing the words covers and/or versions:
“... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. “Miserable” covers many; “shabby” most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, “disagreeable” includes them all.”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)
“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)