| Em | Am | |
| Forty thousand headmen couldn't | make me change my mind |
| Bm | Am | |
| If I | had to take the choice between the | deaf man and the blind |
| Bm | Am | |
| I | know just where my feet should go and | that's enough for me |
| Bm | |
| I | turned around and knocked them down |
| Am | G | Em | |
| And | walked a | cross the | sea. |
| same chord pattern as 1st verse |
| Hadn't travelled very far when suddenly I saw |
| Three small ships a sailin' towards a distant shore |
| So lighting up a cigarette I followed in pursuit |
| And found a secret cave where they obviously stashed their loot |
| E7 | A7 | |
| Filling up my pockets even | stuffed it up my nose |
| E7 | A7 | |
| I | must have weighed a hundred tons bet | ween my head and toes |
| E7 | A7 | E7 | A | G | Em | |
| I | ventured forth before the dawn had | time to change it's mind |
| E7 | A | G | Em | |
| And | soaring high above the clouds I | found a | golden | shrine. |
| Laying down my treasure before the iron gate |
| Quickly rang the bell, hoped I hadn't come too late |
| But someone came along and told me not to waste my time |
| And when I asked him who he was he said "Just look behind" |
| So I turned around and 40,000 headmen bit the dirt |
| Firing twenty shotguns each and man it really hurt |
| But luckily for me they had to stop and then reload |
| And by the time they'd done I was heading down the road. |
| inst. break on Em |
| Em |
| Heading down the road, |
| Forty thousand headmen on my trail |
| end on C D Em |