Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (Live)-Warren Zevon

[ti:Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (Live Version)] [ar:Warren Zevon] [al:Learning To Flinch] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (Live) - Warren Zevon [03:42.92]Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun [03:48.33]With a Thompson gun for hire fighting to be done [03:53.91] [03:55.00]The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day [04:01.08]So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray [04:06.49] [04:09.37]Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war [04:15.91]With their fingers on their triggers knee-deep in gore [04:22.16] [04:22.88]For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees [04:28.76]They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese [04:34.57] [04:38.04]Roland the Thompson gunner [04:40.57] [04:44.32]Roland the Thompson gunner [04:47.68] [04:52.55]His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest [04:59.20]But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best [05:04.46] [05:05.60]So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead [05:11.47] [05:12.30]That son-of-a-b**ch Van Owen blew off Roland's head [05:17.88] [05:21.05]Roland the headless Thompson gunner [05:25.36] [05:27.99]Norway's bravest son [05:31.55] [05:33.73]They can still see his headless body stalking through the night [05:40.74]In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun [05:45.07] [05:47.51]In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun [05:51.76] [06:01.86]Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in [06:07.35] [06:08.31]He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin [06:14.50] [06:15.67]Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word [06:20.86] [06:21.84]But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg [06:27.87] [06:30.91]Roland the headless Thompson gunner [06:34.03] [06:37.74]Roland the headless Thompson gunner [06:40.56] [06:44.45]Roland the headless Thompson gunner [06:47.23] [06:48.66]Talkin' about the man [06:51.25]Roland the headless Thompson gunner [06:54.27] [10:11.75]The eternal Thompson gunner still wandering through the night [10:19.10] [10:20.04]Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight [10:25.61] [10:27.20]In Ireland in Lebanon in Palestine and Berkeley [10:33.61] [10:50.37]Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it