Forty Thousand Headmen
Traffic

(S. Winwood - J. Capaldi)

from the album Traffic (Oct, 1968)


 Intro:

         acoustic guitar (w/flute):

              v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
         ---|-0-7-6-5-3-0-----|-0-7-6-5-353-0---|---|---
         -0-|-------------3-0-|--------------(0)|---|---
         ---|-----------------|-----------------|-%-|-%-
         ---|-----------------|-----------------|---|---
         ---|-----------------|-----------------|---|---
         ---|-----------------|-----------------|---|---
                                              ^ 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

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