Tablature roland the headless - Warren Zevon

          



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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 <thanks Ken>. key@cs.utk.edu

  

  Mark Rubin <mrubin@dorsai.org>

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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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 Roland the headless, de Warren zevon 

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