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Lyrics for Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner by Warren Zevon:
| | | Artist: | Warren Zevon |
| | Album: | Excitable Boy | | Track: | Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 225 | | | | Lyrics: | "Roland was a warrior from the land of the midnight sun
With a thompson gun for hire fighting
to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra
to join the bloody fray
Through '66 and 7 they fought the Congo war
With their
fingers on their triggers knee deep in gore
For days and nights they battled, the Bantu to
their knees
They killed to earn their living, and to help out the Congolese
Roland
the thompson gunner (2x)
His comrades fought beside him, Van Owen and the rest
But
of all the thompson gunners, Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland
dead
That son of a bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head
Roland the headless
thompson gunner
Norway's son won't stop till he sums up the score
They can still see his
headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's thompson gun
(2x)
Roland searched the continent for the man who done him in
He found him in
Mombasa in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his thompson gun, he didn't say a word
But
he blew Van Owen's body, from there to Johannesburg
Roland the headless thompson gunner
(4x)
The eternal thompson gunner, still wandering through the night
Now it's ten
years later, but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and
Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's thompson gun and bought it | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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