Zevon Warren

Zevon Warren - Roland The Headless guitar tab

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]

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