[ti:40,000 Headmen] [ar:Blood, Sweat & Tears] [al:The Best Of Blood, Sweat & Tears: What Goes Up!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]40,000 Headmen (Album Version) - Blood, Sweat & Tears [00:22.13]Written by:James Capal [00:44.26]Forty thousand headmen [00:46.61]Couldn't make me change my mind [00:49.46]If I had to make the choice [00:51.87]Between the deafman and the blind [00:55.45]I know just where my [00:57.14]Feet should go and that's enough for me [01:01.06]I turned around and knocked them down [01:04.41]And walked across the sea [01:12.17]Hadn't traveled very far [01:15.00]When suddenly I saw [01:17.89]Three small ships asailing out [01:20.94]Towards a distant shore [01:23.98]Lighting up a cigarette I followed in pursuit [01:29.75]And found a secret cave where [01:31.84]They obviously stashed their loot [01:37.29]Filling up my pockets even stuffed it up my nose [01:41.97]I must have weighed a hundred tons [01:44.64]Between my head and toes [01:47.02]I ventured forth before the dawn [01:48.97]Had time to change I'ts mind [01:51.86]Soaring high above the clouds [01:53.97]I found a golden shrine [03:14.35]Laying down my treasure before the iron gate [03:20.12]Quickly rang the bell hoping I hadn't come too late [03:25.78]Someone came along and told [03:28.45]Me not to waste my time [03:31.36]And when I asked him who he was [03:34.68]He said 'Just look behind' [03:37.95]So I turned around and forty [03:40.36]Thousand headmen hit the dirt [03:43.52]Firing twenty shotguns [03:45.32]Each and man it really hurt [03:48.11]But luckily for me [03:50.10]They had to stop and then reload [03:53.16]And by the time they'd [03:54.27]Done that I was heading down the road