Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, artist - Warren Zevon. Album song Original Album Series, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 10.12.2015
Record label: Rhino Entertainment Company
Song language: English
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner |
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 sixty-six and seven 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… |
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 bravest son |
Time, time, time |
For another peaceful war |
But time stands still for Roland |
'Til he evens up the score |
They can still see his headless body stalking through the night |
In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun |
In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun |
Roland searched the continent for the man who’d done him in He found him in Mombassa 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… |
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 |