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Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
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Warren Zevon
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"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 They killed to earn their living, and to help out the Congolese For days and nights they battled, the Bantu to their knees Roland the thompson gunner (2x) But of all the thompson gunners, Roland was the best So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead His comrades fought beside him, Van Owen and the rest That son of a bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head Roland the headless thompson gunner They can still see his headless body stalking through the night Norway's son won't stop till he sums up the score Roland searched the continent for the man who done him in In the muzzle flash of Roland's thompson gun (2x) Roland aimed his thompson gun, he didn't say a word He found him in Mombasa in a barroom drinking gin But he blew Van Owen's body, from there to Johannesburg Roland the headless thompson gunner (4x) Now it's ten years later, but he still keeps up the fight The eternal thompson gunner, still wandering through the night Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's thompson gun and bought itIn Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
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