40,000 Headmen    (video)    (midi)

 

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1. Forty thousand headmen couldn't make me change my mind,

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    if I had to take the choice between the deaf man and the blind.

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    I know just where my feet should go and that's enough for me,

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    I turned around and knocked them down,

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    and walked across the sea.

 

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2. Hadn't travelled very far when suddenly I saw,

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    three small ships a sailin' towards a distant shore.

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    So lighting up a cigarette I followed in pursuit,

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    and found a secret cave where they obviously stashed their loot.

 

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    Filling up my pockets, even stuffed it up my nose,

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    I must have weighed a hundred tons between my head and toes.

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    I ventured forth before the dawn had time to change its mind,

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    and soaring high above the clouds, I found a golden shrine.

 

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3. Laying down my treasure before the iron gate,

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    quickly rang the bell, hopeing I hadn't come too late.

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    But someone came along and told me not to waste my time,

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    and when I asked him who he was he said "Just look behind".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    So I turned around and 40,000 headmen bit the dirt,

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    firing twenty shotguns each and, man, it really hurt.

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    But luckily for me they had to stop and then reload,

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    and by the time they'd done I was         heading down the road.

 

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+  Heading down the road ....

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    Forty thousand headmen              on my trail ...

 

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