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From: mrubin@amanda.dorsai.org (mark rubin)
 Ken Key uploaded this song originally but I think these cords are closer to
 the recording on Excitable Boy.  I left Ken's lyric formatting and just
 changed the cords . key@cs.utk.edu
 Mark Rubin 
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  Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
  Warren Zevon
 
  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 join 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 help out the Congolese
 
  G          D                    A    Bm
  Roland the Thompson gunner...
  G          D                    A    Bm
  Roland the Thompson gunner...
 
 
      Bm               D                            G
  His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest
  G                        D                      A
  But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best
         Bm     D                       G
  So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
  G                       D    A                 Bm
  That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head
 
 
  Chorus:                                      Harmony:
  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 see his headless body stalking through the night
         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 in
  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
 
 
 All the A cords can be played as a regular A or  O O 2 2 O O,  [I forget
 the name of this cord]