"The Forty-Four" is a century old blues standard, reinvented, sung and performed by the likes of Howlin' Wolf, Robert Plant and The Black Crowes. That Ezra has early blues as a major influence is self evident. This Forty-Four reference also ties in with the most legendary of all hand guns the Colt Forty-Four and the iconic point four four
(.44) Magnum hand gun. Making a complete and clever lyric.