Roland The Headless Chords

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  RBmoland was a warDrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun G

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  WAith a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done

  TBmhe deal was made inD Denmark on a dark and stormy dGay

  SGo he set out for BiaDfra to join tAhe bloody fray Bm

  TBmhrough sixty-six and sevDen they fought the Congo war G

  FGingers on their triDggers, knee-deep in gore A

  FBmor days and nights theyD battled the Bantu to their kGnees

  TGhey killed to earn their livDing and to help oAut the CongolesBme

  RGoland the ThoDmpson gunner... A Bm

  RGoland the ThoDmpson gunner... A Bm

  HBmis comrades fought Dbeside him - Van Owen and the rGest

  BGut of all the Thompson gunnDers Roland was the best A

  SBmo the CIAD decided they wanted RolanGd dead

  TGhat son-of-a-bitch Van OweDn blew Aoff Roland's head Bm

Chorus

Harmony:

  RDoland the heaAdless Thompson gunneGr (BmTime, time, time

D A For another peaceful war

Norway's bravest son But time stands still for

Roland

'Til he evens up the score)

  TAhey can stiBmll see hiAs headlesDs body stalkAing thrGough the night Bm

  IDn the muzzle flashA of Roland's ThompsoBmn gun

  IDn the muzzle flashA of Roland's ThompsoGn gun Bm

  RBmoland searched the conDtinent for the man who'd done him in G

  HGe found him in MomDbassa in a barroom drinking gin A

  RBmoland aimed his ThoDmpson gun - he didn't say a word G

  BGut he blew Van Owen's bodDy from thereA to JohanneBmsburg

  RGoland the headless ThoDmpson gunner... A Bm

  RGoland the headless ThoDmpson gunner... A Bm

  RGoland the headless ThoDmpson gunner... A Bm

  TBmhe eternal Thompson gunDner, still wandering through the nightG

  NGow it's ten years latDer but he still keeps up the fightA

  IBmn Ireland, in DLebanon, in Palestine and BeGrkeley

  PGatty Hearst heaGrd the burst of RolanGd's Thompson gun D

  AAnd bouBmght it