Intro:

      acoustic guitar (w/flute):

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      -0- | -------------3-0- | --------------(0) | --- | --- | 
      --- | ----------------- | ----------------- | -%- | -%- | 
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                                           ^ omit last time

      Em     Em6/9 Em     Em6/9       [ Em6/9: slide 022000 to 044000]
      /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /

Verse 1:

       Em                              Am7
      Forty thousand headmen couldn't make me change my mind
           Bm7                                 Am7
      If I had to take the choice between the deafman and the blind
         Bm7                                   Am7
      I know just where my feet should go and that's enough for me
         Bm7                                     Am7    /G       ( Em )
      I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea

      [1:] Em     Em6/9 Em     Em6/9
           /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /

Verse 2:

      Hadn't travelled very far when suddenly I saw
      Three small ships a sailin' towards a distant shore
      So lighting up a cigarette I followed in pursuit
      And found a secret cave where they obviously stashed their loot

Chorus 1:

       E7                         A7
      Filling up my pockets even stuffed it up my nose
       E7                         A7
      I must have weighed a hundred tons between my head and toes
       E7                         A7
      I ventured forth before the dawn had time to change it's mind
           E7                              A7      /G     Em
      And soaring high above the clouds I found a golden shrine

Verse 3:

      Laying down my treasure before the iron gate
      Quickly rang the bell, hoped I hadn't come too late
      But someone came along and told me not to waste my time
      And when I asked him who he was he said "just look behind"

Chorus 2:

      So I turned around and 40,000 headmen bit the dirt
      Firing twenty shotguns each and man, it really hurt
      But luckily for me they had to stop and then reload
      And by the time they'd done I was heading down the road

Coda:

                       ( Em )
      Heading down the road
      Forty thousand headmen on my trail
      Rambling and rambling
      Rambling and rambling...
      With forty thousand headmen on my trail


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers