Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
From the third album of Warren William Zevon (1947–2003): "Excitable Boy"(1978). Fictional, of course, about mercenaries in and after the Congo Crisis during the late sixties, co-written by David Lindell, who actually had been there. The headless norwegian mercenary became Zevon's last public performance before his death in 2003: on Late Show with David Letterman 30th of October 2002. The act used to be on YouTube, but Worldwide Pants Inc. has blocked it now ... Letterman is the owner of the company =:D so You have to watch the WHOLE show ... This song is now revisited, November 2024: see full lyrics or bottom of this page.Am C [Cmaj7] F Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun F C G with a Thompson gun for hire fighting to be done Am G C [Cmaj7] F the deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day F C G Am so he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray F C ...Dm...Am Roland the Thompson gunner F C ...Dm...Am Roland the Thompson gunner C [Cmaj7] G Fmaj7...F Roland the headless Thompson gunner C G Norway's bravest son Am G C G they can still see his headless body F Am stalking through the night G C G Am in the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun C [Cmaj7] G Fmaj7...F Roland the headless Thompson gunner C [Cmaj7] G Fmaj7...F...Am Roland the headless Thompson gunner F Dm C ... Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun Am and bought it
To honor Zevon and bring the song up to date, You may change the last verse:
the eternal Thompson gunner is still wandering through the night
now fifty years later he still keeps up the fight
in Palestine, in Lebanon and now in Ukraina:
Putin first [*] heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
then bought it [*] : or fill in an optional name and place
now fifty years later he still keeps up the fight
in Palestine, in Lebanon and now in Ukraina:
Putin first [*] heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
then bought it [*] : or fill in an optional name and place
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Cmaj7
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Dm
Fmaj7
