Forty Thousand Headmen chords by
Traffic And Steve Winwood

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Key: E minor

Intro 1

Em

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Verse 1
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Forty thousand headmen couldn't
Am Am 
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make me  change my mind
Bm Bm 2
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If I had to take the choice between
Am Am 
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the deaf man and the blind
D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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I know just where my feet should go
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an  d that's enough for me
Bm Bm 2
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I turned around and knocked them down
Am Am 
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and walked across the sea
Em Em 
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Verse 2
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Hadn't traveled very far,
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when suddenly I saw
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Bm Bm 2
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Three small ships are sailing out
Am Am 
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towards a distant shore
Bm Bm 2
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So lighting up a cigarette,
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I followed in pursuit
Bm Bm 2
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And found a secret cave,
Am Am 
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Em Em 
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where they ob  viously stashed their loot

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

Verse 4
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Laying down my treasure be
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A A 
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Am Am 
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fore the iron gate
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Quickly rang the bell hoping
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I hadn't come too late
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D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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But someone came along and told
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me not to waste my time
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Am Am 
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And when I asked him, who he was,
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he said, "Just look behind"

Verse 5
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So I turned around and forty
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A A 
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thousand headmen hit the dirt
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E E 
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Firing twenty shotguns each
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and man it really hurt
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But luckily for me they had
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to stop and then reload
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Em Em 
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Am Am 
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And by  the time they'd done that I was
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heading down the road

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

Outro 1

Em

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