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	Bm	D	G
	Roland was a	warrior from the Land of the Midnight	Sun

G D A*

With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done

	Bm	D	G
The	deal was made in	Denmark on a dark and stormy	day

	G	D	A	Bm
	So he set out for	Biafra to j	oin the bloody	fray

	Bm	D	G
	Through sixty-six and	seven they fought the Congo	war

	G	D	A
	Fingers on their	triggers, knee-deep in	gore

	Bm	D	G
For	days and nights they	battled the Bantu to their	knees

	G	D	A	Bm
	They killed to earn their	living and to h	elp out the C	ongolese

	G	D	A	Bm
	Roland the	Thompson gunner...

	G	D	A	Bm
	Roland the	Thompson gunner...

	Bm	D	G
His	comrades fought b	eside him - Van Owen and the	rest

	G	D	A
	But of all the Thompson g	unners Roland was the b	est

	Bm	D	G
So the	CIA dec	ided they wanted Roland	dead

	G	D	A	Bm
	That son-of-a-bitch Van	Owen	blew off Roland's	head

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	D	A	G	Bm
	Roland the	headless Thompson	gunner	(Time, time, time

D A For another peaceful war

Norway's bravest son But time stands still for

Roland

'Til he evens up the score)

	A	Bm	A	D	A	G	Bm
	They can	still s	ee his	headless b	ody s	talking through the n	ight

	D	A	Bm
In the	muzzle flash of	Roland's Thompson	gun

	D	A	G	Bm
In the	muzzle flash of	Roland's Thompson	gun

	Bm	D	G
	Roland searched the	continent for the man who'd done him i	n

	G	D	A
	He found him in	Mombassa in a barroom drinking	gin

	Bm	D	G
	Roland aimed his	Thompson gun - he didn't say a	word

	G	D	A	Bm
	But he blew Van Owen's	body from	there to	Johannesburg

	G	D	A	Bm
	Roland the headless	Thompson gunner...

	G	D	A	Bm
	Roland the headless	Thompson gunner...

	G	D	A	Bm
	Roland the headless	Thompson gunner...

	Bm	D	G
	The eternal Thompson	gunner, still wandering through the	night

	G	D	A
	Now it's ten years	later but he still keeps up the	fight

	Bm	D	G
In	Ireland, in	Lebanon, in Palestine and	Berkeley

	G	G	G	D
	Patty Hearst	heard the burst of	Roland's Thompson	gun

	A	Bm
	And	bought it

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Roland The Headless

Warren Zevon

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