40,000 Headmen chords by Traffic

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
 (E minor) Forty thousand headmen couldn't
A 
Am 
make  (A major) me change  (A minor) my mind
Bm 
If I  (B minor) had to take the choice between
Am 
the  (A minor) deafman and the blind
Bm 
I know  (B minor) just where my feet should
Am 
go  (A minor) and that's enough for me
Bm 
I  (B minor) turned around and knocked them down
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Am 
Em 
 (A major) and walked  (A minor) across the  (E minor) sea.

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Verse 2
Em 
 (E minor) 
Hadn't traveled very far
Am 
when  (A minor) suddenly I saw
Bm 
Three  (B minor) small ships a-sailing out
Am 
out  (A minor) towards a distant shore
Bm 
So  (B minor) lighting up a cigarette
Am 
 (A minor) I followed in pursuit
Bm 
And  (B minor) found a secret cave where they
G 
Em 
obvi (G major) ously stashed  (E minor) their loot.

Verse 3
Em 
 (E minor) Filling up my pockets,
A 
even  (A major) stuffed it up my nose
Em 
I  (E minor) must have weighed a hundred
A 
tons between  (A major) my head and toes
Em 
I  (E minor) ventured out before the dawn had time
A 
 (A major) to change its mind
Em 
 (E minor) And soaring high above the cloud

Verse 4
I found a golden shrine.
Em 
 (E minor) Laying down my treasure be
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Am 
fore  (A major) the iron  (A minor) gate
Bm 
 (B minor) Quickly rang the bell hoping
Am 
I  (A minor) hadn't come too late
Bm 
But  (B minor) someone came along and told
Am 
me  (A minor) not to waste my time
Bm 
A 
And  (B minor) when Iasked him who he was  (A major) he said,
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Em 
 (G major) 'Just look  (E minor) behind.'

Verse 5
Em 
So I turned around and  (E minor) forty
A 
thousand  (A major) headmen hit the dirt
Em 
A 
Fir (E minor) ing twenty shotguns each and man,  (A major) 
it really hurt
Em 
But  (E minor) luckily for me they had
A 
to stop  (A major) and then reload
Em 
A 
G 
Em 
And  (E minor) by  the time they'd done that I was  (A major)  (G major)  (E minor) heading

Outro 1
down the road.
Em 
Bm 
A 
Asus4 
Em 
 (E minor)  (B minor)  (A major)  (Asus4)  (E minor) 
C 
 (C major) 
A 
Em 
Bm 
Em 
 (A major)  (E minor)  (B minor)  (E minor) 