Intro:

        acoustic guitar (w/flute):

             v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
        ---|-0-7-6-5-3-0-----|-0-7-6-5-353-0---|---|---|
        -0-|-------------3-0-|--------------(0)|---|---|
        ---|-----------------|-----------------|-%-|-%-|
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                                             ^ omit last time

        Em     Em6/9 Em     Em6/9       [Em6/9: slide 022000 to 044000]
        /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /

Verse 1:

         Em                              Am7
        Forty thousand headmen couldn't make me change my mind
             Bm7                                 Am7
        If I had to take the choice between the deafman and the blind
           Bm7                                   Am7
        I know just where my feet should go and that's enough for me
           Bm7                                     Am7    /G       (Em)
        I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea

        [1:] Em     Em6/9 Em     Em6/9
             /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /

Verse 2:

        Hadn't travelled very far when suddenly I saw
        Three small ships a sailin' towards a distant shore
        So lighting up a cigarette I followed in pursuit
        And found a secret cave where they obviously stashed their loot

Chorus 1:

         E7                         A7
        Filling up my pockets even stuffed it up my nose
         E7                         A7
        I must have weighed a hundred tons between my head and toes
         E7                         A7
        I ventured forth before the dawn had time to change it's mind
             E7                              A7      /G     Em
        And soaring high above the clouds I found a golden shrine

Verse 3:

        Laying down my treasure before the iron gate
        Quickly rang the bell, hoped I hadn't come too late
        But someone came along and told me not to waste my time
        And when I asked him who he was he said "just look behind"

Chorus 2:

        So I turned around and 40,000 headmen bit the dirt
        Firing twenty shotguns each and man, it really hurt
        But luckily for me they had to stop and then reload
        And by the time they'd done I was heading down the road

Coda:

                         (Em)
        Heading down the road
        Forty thousand headmen on my trail
        Rambling and rambling
        Rambling and rambling...
        With forty thousand headmen on my trail