#Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

[to2llynottoby]

His comrades fought beside him Van Owen and the rest But of all the Thompson Gunners Roland was the best So the CIA decided They wanted Roland dead That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen Blew off Roland's Head

Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

#Warren Zevon #Excitable Boy #Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner #Norway's bravest son #rock #70s #Halloween #ballads #to2lly not tunes #Spotify

[freetheshit-outofyou]

Excitable Boy was his best album, but I am very partial to Mr. Bad Example also.

#warren zevon #roland the headless thompson gunner #1978 #excitable boy #Youtube

[blacjaq1]

#halloween #halloween music #warren zevon #roland the headless thompson gunner #Youtube

[thatsbelievable]

What’s the word? Johannesburg!

Ask Van Owen!

#asks #Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner #Warren Zevon

[ungoliantschilde]

“Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner”, by Warren Zevon. Live on Letterman.

#Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner #Warren Zevon #Excitable Boy #David Letterman #Music #Live Music #Music Video #RIP #Youtube

[the-chill-remains]

Watch "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner | Historia Ephemera" on YouTube

#roland the headless Thompson gunner #warren zevon #murder ballad #warfare #mercenary #Youtube

[gobbluthbutagirl]

i saw last night that there was apparently a tag game on here a while back where people would post their 10 favorite songs with names in the title and i was like, do i even like 10 songs with names in the title? and then i went through my liked songs on spotify and started making a list and it turns out that a) yes i do and b) i actually couldn’t even narrow it down to 10

#i had it at 10 and then i was like oh my god i forgot about my boy roland…(who’s roland?) headless thompson gunner…

[shatterstar]

every warren zevon song is like here’s a guy I just made up

#was listening to Roland the headless thompson gunner #p

[wastemanjohn]

y'know I thought I was all done but I got one more thing to add to my earlier (lengthy -- sorry!) response to the wincest wednesday askbox scattergun, and that's on the topic of familial lexicon:

mundane headcanons, I hear you say? how about this one that is gospel in my heart: there are dozens, if not HUNDREDS, of songs that sam hears in his brother's voice before anybody else's.

there's songs for bathtime and bedtime, songs to make sam sit still while dean clips his sharp little fingernails, songs for when dad's been gone for so many minutes, way past the little hand on the eight and the big hand on the four. there's songs for waiting in the car while dad pumps gas or digs deep holes or lights fires that make dean go pale and a little sweaty, so his palm slides clammy-cold over sam's. there's songs for walking home from school, songs that sam gets to hear vibrating up to where he's perched on dean's shoulders, and songs whispered against his temple when sleep won't come.

(later, when he's older, there's songs for counting cadence during PT and songs for walking back to the fence to reset the pop can targets and songs for when he's fought with dad and screamed himself hoarse. there's songs for hanging out the window to the waist while dean does a conservative seventy-five of roads graded for fifty. there's songs dean sings to and for himself, but he doesn't mind if sam listens in.)

like, for sam, pete seeger didn't sing "little boxes"; dean winchester did. paul simon and art garfunkel didn't sing "cecelia"; dean winchester did. bruce springsteen didn't sing "atlantic city" and arlo guthrie didn't sing "alice's restaurant massacre" and warren zevon didn't sing "roland the headless thompson gunner" (besides, sam's pet theory is that warren's probably a hunter himself, or at least a well-informed civilian); peter schilling didn't sing "major tom" and elvis didn't sing "suspicious minds" and roy orbison didn't sing "all I have to do is dream". joan baez didn't sing "with god on our side" and tom paxton didn't sing "lyndon johnson told the nation" and hoyt acton didn't sing "greenback dollar" and fleetwood mac sure as hell didn't sing "the chain". phil ochs didn't sing "the highwayman" and john denver didn't sing "country roads" and dusty springfield didn't sing "I only want to be with you". dean winchester did; word-perfect, every time.

sam's a connoisseur of the entire dean winchester discography. no matter what anybody else (the radio included) says, sam knows how those song go.

sam knows that the song goes, "my sammy lies over the prairie, my sammy lies over the sea, my sammy lies over the prairie, so bring back my sammy to me"

sam knows that the song goes, "a-round her neck/ she wore a yellow ribbon/ she wore it in the springtime/ and in the month of may/ and if you asked/ her why the hell she wore it/ she wore it for her young marine sent far, far away"

sam knows that the song goes, "I've got some fine memories of san angelo/ and I've seen some beauty queens in el paso/ but the best lookin' women that I've ever seen/ have all been from kansas and all wearin' jeans"

sam knows that the song goes, "we've hauled some barges in our day/ filled with lumber, coal, and hay/ and we know every inch of the way/ from albany to far below"

sam knows that the song goes, "my father was hung as a horse thief/ my mother was burned as a witch/ my seventeen sisters, they run the whorehouse/ and I'm a cocksucking son of a bitch"

sam knows that the song goes, "oh, my darling/ oh, my darling/ oh, my darling clementine/ you are lost and gone forever/ dreadful sorry, clementine"

sam knows that the song goes, "so take my tip before you ship to join the iron gang/ don't be too gay in botany bay, or else you'll surely hang/ "or else you'll surely hang," says he, and after that, jim jones/ way up upon the gallows tree, the crows will pick your bones"

sam know that the song goes, "bye, baby bunting, daddy's gone a-hunting, gone to fetch a gator skin, to wrap his baby bunting in"

(sam's twenty-three and newly dead so he doesn't know the next time a song from dean's back catalogue gets sung in a whisper against the thin skin of his temple, hair pushed back behind his ear so maybe he'll hear: bring back, bring back, oh, bring back my sammy to me, to me; bring back, bring back, oh bring back my baby to me)

!!!! SCREAM! ANON YOU ARE FUCKING *COOKING* this is so beautiful 😭😭😭😭 gosh. I'm screaming. EVERYONE READ WHAT ANON SAID PLEASE BECAUSE MY BRAIN IS REARRANGED BY THIS

#😭😭😭 #THE LAST PARAGRAPH #SCREAMING #samdean #wincest Wednesday

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Johnny Strikes Up The Band • Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner • Excitable Boy • Werewolves Of London • Accidentally Like A Martyr • Nighttime In The Switching Yard • Veracruz • Tenderness On The Block • Lawyers, Guns And Money

Spotify ♪ Youtube

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: warren zevon #language: english #decade: 1970s #Singer-Songwriter #Piano Rock #Pop Rock

[olderthannetfic]

I haven’t come across many other people who like Warren Zevon! What are your favorite songs of his?

--

Really? I wonder if it's generational. I feel like everyone I know is obsessed with Werewolves Of London.

I love that one, of course, but for less obvious picks... hmm...

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Lawyers, Guns and Money

Poor Poor Pitiful Me

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

[radioprune]

tagged by the wonderful maddie @leonardcohenofficial to shuffle my on repeat and post the first 10 songs! thanks :-)

i call your name - the beatles

circle sky (live) - the monkees

lavender lane - the kinks

awaiting on you all (demo) - george harrison

run of the mill - adelaide

what about everything - carbon leaf

roland the headless thompson gunner - warren zevon

i want to tell you - the beatles

bad habit - steve lacy

i'll keep you satisfied - billy j kramer & the dakotas

i'll tag @tagomago @sgt-celestial @heybulldogs @bellsofrhymney @ladyoftheharbour if you'd like!!

#this is like a caricature of the music i listen to lol

[notanothersongaboutlovebracket]

Revenge/Confrontation Song Sub-Bracket

Ryan Scott Oliver - Leave, Luanne vs Queen - Death on Two Legs

steampianist - black hole

Miles Luna and Benjamin Zecker - Better Than You vs Gaelic Storm - The Night that I Punched Russell Crowe

Da games - Moving up in the world vs Alice Francis - Shoot Him Down!

Olivia Olsen and Ashley Tisdale - Busted vs the living tombstone, eliemonty - die in a fire

grandson - Bury Me Face Down vs Schell Games - I Expect You To Die

Scene queen - The rapture (but it's pink)

Dalton Deschain & the Traveling Show - Devil's Night vs 100 Gecs - Sympathy 4 The Grinch

Vane Lilly - Perfectly Sweet vs Aviators - Red Water Dreams

Poor Man's Poison - Hell's Coming with Me vs The Crane Wives - Take Me to War

Lord Huron - The World Ender vs Death Note the Musical - Playing His Game

The Decemberists - Mariner's Revenge Song

ponyphonic - the moon rises vs Naethan Apollo - You’re Not Welcome

Nightmare Time 2 (StarKid) - Yellow Jacket vs Fish in a Birdcage - Four Aces

Twisted Musical (StarKid) - No One Remembers Achmed vs Martina McBride - Independence Day

Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner vs Lestat The Musical - After All This Time

Set It Off - Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

dead end paranormal park - My Frankenstein vs I don’t know how but they found me - Choke

Jeremy Irons - Be Prepared vs Jhariah - Whose Eye Is It Anyway???

Bruce Springsteen - Death to My Hometown vs Bring Me The Horizon - medicine

#bracket info

[alcnfr]

Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner

#youtube

[strangenewwords]

Orchid & chamomile!

Orchid - what’s a song you consider to be perfect?

OKAY so this is insanely hard. Because I love music to an incomparable level. And I love all of it, and at any given time some song is perfect to me. They're all perfect to me. And I've rewritten this three times. BUT. I got it.

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner by Warren Zevon.

(It also could have been anything by Bowie, Arcade Fire, The Clash, Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, etc etc etc.)

chamomile ⇢ what kind of things do you like receiving as gifts?

Food and time. Best if mixed together. I want very few things because I'm pretty minimalist when it comes to stuff. But I wanna talk to people and I like eating stuff. It can be like super fancy lets go to a place with a Michelin star things, or it can be bowling alley nachos.

Also knowledge. If you share with me, teach me something I didn't know? I will literally fall in love with you.

#ask game

[pattern-recognition]

do you like the song roland the headless thompson gunner?

this ask would make more sense if i didn’t recognize that song. what compelled you to ask this, i wonder

#but i have heard it #it’s a catchy tune but about genocidal mercenaries #anonymous