Lay Down Your Guns

"Lay Down Your Guns" is a song by Australian rock musician, Jimmy Barnes. It was released in July 1990 as the lead single from Barnes' fourth studio album, Two Fires. It reached #4 on the Australian ARIA charts.

"Lay Down Your Guns"
Single by Jimmy Barnes
from the album Two Fires
B-side	"Broken Hearts"
Released	July 1990
Genre	Pop, rock
Length	4:00
Label	Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s)	Jimmy Barnes, Rick Nowels
Producer(s)	Don Gehman
Jimmy Barnes singles chronology
""Last Frontier" (live)" (1988) "Lay Down Your Guns" (1990) "Let's Make it Last All Night" (1990)

Track listing

CD Single (D10133)/ 7" single (K 10133) [1]

1. "Lay Down Your Guns"
2. "Broken Hearts"

Charts

"Lay Down Your Guns" debuted at #9 in Australia, before peaking at number 4.[2]

Weekly charts

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[3]	4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[4]	12

Year-end charts

Chart (1990)	Position
ARIA Singles Chart[5]	23
Australian Artist Singles Chart	4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[6]	44

Sales and certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[7]	Platinum	70,000^^
^^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

1. "Jimmy Barnes "Lay Down Your Guns"". Discogs. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
2. "Jimmy Barnes – Lay Down Your Guns". Australian-Charts.com. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
3. "Australian-charts.com – Jimmy Barnes – Lay Down Your Guns". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
4. "Charts.nz – Jimmy Barnes – Lay Down Your Guns". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
5. "ARIA Top 100 Singles 1990". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
6. "End of Year Charts 1990". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
7. "ARIA Accreditations (1987-2010)". Australian Fun Countdowns. Retrieved 2015-08-04.