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Introduction:
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Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
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With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
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The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
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So he set out for Biafra to j oin the bloody fray
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Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war
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Fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore
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For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees
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Cºngolese
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Roland the Thompson gunner...
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Roland the Thompson gunner...
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His comrades fought b eside him - Van Owen and the rest
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But of all the Thompson g unners Roland was the b est
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So the CIA dec ided they wanted Roland dead
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That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head
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Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time
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Norway's bravest son But time stands still for
Roland
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They can still s ee his headless b ody s talking through the n ight
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In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
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In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
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Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him i n
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He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin
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Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word
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But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg
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Roland the headless Thompson gunner...
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Roland the headless Thompson gunner...
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Roland the headless Thompson gunner...
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The eternal Thompson gunner, still wandering through the night
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Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight
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In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
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Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
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And bought it