Forty Thousand Headmen Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Em]

[Verse 1]
Forty thousand [Em]headmen couldn't
make [Am]me change my mind
If [Bm]I had to take the choice between
the deaf [Am]man and the blind
I [D]know just where my feet should [Bm]go
[Am]an d that's enough for me
[Bm]I turned around and knocked them down
and [Am]walked across the sea
[Em]

[Verse 2]
[Em]Hadn't traveled very far,
when [Am]suddenly I saw
Three [D]small [Bm]ships are sailing out
to[Am]wards a distant shore
So [Bm]lighting up a cigarette,
[Am]I followed in pursuit
And [Bm]found a secret cave,
where they [Am]ob viously stashed th[Em]eir loot

[Verse 3]
Filling up my [Em]pockets,
even [Am]stuffed it up my nose
I [Em]must have weighed a hundred tons
[Am]between my head [A]and toes
I ven[Em]tured forth before the dawn,
had [A]time to change its mind
And [Em]soaring high above the clouds,
[Am]I found a golden [Em]shrine[D]

[Verse 4]
[Em]Laying down my treasure be
[Am]fore the [A]iron [Am]gate
[Bm]Quickly rang the bell hoping
[Am]I hadn't come too late
But [Bm]someone came [D]along [Bm]and told
me [Am]not to waste my time
And [Bm]when I asked him, who [Am]he was,
he said, "Just look be[Em]hind"

[Verse 5]
So I turned around and [Em]forty
thousand [Am]headmen hit [A]the dirt
Fir[Em]ing t[E]wenty shotguns each
and [A]man it really hurt
But [Em]luckily for me they had
to [A]stop and then reload
[Am]And by t[Em]he time they'd done that I was[Am]
heading down the [Em]road

[Verse 6]
Heading down [Em]the road,
forty thousand headmen
Going around [A]the lane, [Em]going around the lane,
around, around the lane
Forty thousand headmen on [C]my [Em]trail, oh

[Outro 1]
[Em]