You've Got the Gun explained

You've Got the Gun
Type:	single
Artist:	Sherbet
Album:	Time Change... A Natural Progression
B-Side:	Do It
Released:	October 1972
Genre:	Rock
Length:	3:10 (single edit) 3:56 (1976 version) 5:03 (album version)
Label:	Infinity Records, Festival Records
Producer:	Howard Gable
Prev Title:	You're All Woman
Prev Year:	1972
Next Title:	Hound Dog
Next Year:	1973

"You've Got the Gun" is a song by Australian band Sherbet. It was released in October 1972 as the fourth and final single from Sherbet's debut studio album Time Change... A Natural Progression. The song was written by Sherbet band members Garth Porter, Clive Shakespeare, Daryl Braithwaite.^[1] The song reached at number 29 on Go-Set and number 27 on the Kent Music Report.^[2]

Charts

Chart (1972)	Peak position
Australia (Go-Set) Chart^[3]	29
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[4]	27

Alan Sandow – drums, percussion, bongoes, chimes
- Daryl Braithwaite – lead vocals, tambourine, tabla Clive Shakespeare – guitar, vocals
Garth Porter – keyboards, clavinet, piano, lead vocals, backing vocals, Hammond organ, electric piano, synthesiser

http://www.45cat.com/record/ink4859 Sherbet - You've Got The Gun at 45cat
http://australianmusicdatabase.com/recordings/you-ve-got-the-gun-by-sherbet Sherbet - You've Got The Gun at Australian Music Database
http://www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts/1973/19730127.html Sherbet - You've Got The Gun at Pop Archives
Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)
. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. 1972. 0-646-11917-6. St Ives. 271. David Kent (historian).