Roland The Headless

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 Roland was a warrior from the 
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Land of the Midnight Sun
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 With a Thompson gun for hire, 
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fighting to be done
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 The deal was made in Denmark on a
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 dark and stormy day
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 So he set out for Biafra to join
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 the bloody fray


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 Through sixty-six and seven they 
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fought the Congo war
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 Fingers on their triggers, 
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knee-deep in gore
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 For days and nights they battled 
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the Bantu to their knees
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 They killed to earn their living 
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and to help out the Congolese

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 Roland the Thompson gunner...
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 Roland the Thompson gunner...
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 His comrades fought beside him - 
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Van Owen and the rest
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 But of all the Thompson gunners 
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Roland was the best
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 So the CIA decided they wanted 
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Roland dead
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 That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen 
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blew off Roland's head


 Chorus:                            
          Harmony:
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 Roland the headless Thompson 
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gunner         (Time, time, time
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          For another peaceful war
 Norway's bravest son               
          But time stands still for
                                    
          Roland
                                    
          'Til he evens up the 
score)

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 They can still see his headless 
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body stalking through the night
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 In the muzzle flash of Roland's 
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Thompson gun
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 In the muzzle flash of Roland's 
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Thompson gun

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 Roland searched the continent for
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 the man who'd done him in
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 He found him in Mombassa in a 
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barroom drinking gin
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 Roland aimed his Thompson gun - 
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he didn't say a word
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 But he blew Van Owen's body from 
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there to Johannesburg

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 Roland the headless Thompson 
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gunner...
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 Roland the headless Thompson 
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gunner...
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 Roland the headless Thompson 
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gunner...

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 The eternal Thompson gunner, 
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still wandering through the night
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 Now it's ten years later but he 
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still keeps up the fight
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 In Ireland, in Lebanon, in 
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Palestine and Berkeley
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 Patty Hearst heard the burst of 
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Roland's Thompson gun
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 And bought it