Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - chords, tab and comments
At the bottom you'll find a link to the complete lyrics.
From Warren Zevon's third album "Excitable Boy"(1978) : about mercenaries in the aftermath of 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 performance before his death in 2003: on Late Show with David Letterman
30th of October 2002.
Am C 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 C F
the deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
F C G Fmaj7
so he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray
F C G Am
Roland the Thompson gunner
C G F Am
... Roland the headless Thompson gunner
C G
Norway's bravest son ...
F C
... Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
G Am
and bought it