Forty thousand headmen couldn't make me change my mind
If I had to take the choice between the deafman and the blind
I know just where my feet should go and that's enough for me
I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea
Hadn't traveled very far when suddenly I saw
Three small ships a-sailing out towards a distant shore
So lighting up a cigarette I followed in pursuit
And found a secret cave where they obviously stashed their loot
Filling up my pockets, even stuffed it up my nose
I must have weighed a hundred tons between my head and toes
I ventured forth before the dawn had time to change it's mind
And soaring high above the clouds I found a golden shrine
Laying down my treasure before the iron gate
Quickly rang the bell hoping 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'
So I turned around and forty thousand headmen hit 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 that I was heading down the road
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The lyrics 40,000 HEADMEN of STEVE WINWOOD is also present in the album The finer things (1996)
Steve Winwood (nato Stephen Lawrence Winwood il 12 maggio 1948) è un leggendario musicista britannico noto per la sua poliedrica carriera che spazia dal rock al blues, dal soul al jazz. Iniziò a suonare giovanissimo, entrando nel gruppo The Spencer Davis Group all'età di 16 anni. Con loro ottenne grande successo negli anni '60 con brani come "Gimme Some Lovin'". Dopo la disgregazione del gruppo, Winwood si unì a Traffic, band psichedelica che lo vide comporre e interpretare successi come "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" e "Feelin' Alright". Nel 1969 formò Blind Faith con Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker e Steve Stills, un supergruppo che registrò un unico album auto-intitolato prima di sciogliersi. Negli anni '70 Winwood intraprese una carriera solista di grande successo, pubblicando album come "Arc of a Diver" (1982) con il singolo "Higher Love", e "Back in the High Life" (1986), che lo consacrò come uno dei più grandi artisti del suo tempo. Winwood è stato insignito di numerosi premi, tra cui un Grammy Award per la sua carriera musicale.
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