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[ti:The Highwayman] |
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[ar:Phil Ochs] |
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[al:There But For Fortune] |
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The Highwayman - Phil Ochs |
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The wind was a torrent of darkness |
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Among the gusty trees |
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The moon was a ghostly galleon |
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Tossed upon the cloudy seas |
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The road was a ribbon of moonlight |
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Over the purple moor |
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And the highwayman came riding |
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Riding riding |
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Yes the highwayman came riding |
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Up to the old indoor |
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Over the cobbles he clattered |
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And clashed in the dark innyard |
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And he tapped with his whip on the shutters |
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But all was locked and barred; |
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So he whistled a tune to the window |
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Who should be waiting there |
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But the landlord's black eyed daughter |
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Bess the landlord's daughter |
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Plaiting a dark red love knot |
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Into her long black hair |
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One kiss my bonny sweetheart |
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I'm after a prize tonight |
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But I shall be back with the yellow gold |
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Before the morning light; |
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Yet if they press me sharply |
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And harry me through the day |
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Then look for me by moonlight |
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Watch for me by the moonlight |
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And I'll come to thee by moonlight |
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Though hell should bar the way |
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He did not come at the dawning; |
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No he did not come at noon |
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And out of the tawny sunset |
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Before the rise of the moon |
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When the road was a gypsy's ribbon |
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Looping the purple moor |
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Oh a red coat troop came marching |
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Marching marching |
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King George's men came marching |
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Up to the old indoor |
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They boought the landlow catter |
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With many a sniggering jest; |
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They had bound a musket beside her |
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With the barrel beneath her breast |
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Now keep good watch |
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And they kissed her |
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She heard the dead man say |
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Look for me by moonlight |
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Watch for me by moonlight |
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And I'll come to thee by moonlight |
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Though hell should bar the way |
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Look for me by moonlight |
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Look it again in clear |
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Watch for me by moonlight |
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Where they dead that they did not here for he |
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Road down the Gypsy highway |
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She brings one final brother |
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That her finger move then the moon light |
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Her must keep shat her the moonlight |
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And then shat her brighten the moonlight |
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And walk him with her down |
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Oh |
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He turned; he spurred to the west; |
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He did not know who stood |
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Now with her black over follow down |
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Drenched with her own red blood |
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No not till the dawn had heard it; |
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And his face grew grey to hear |
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How Bess the landlord's daughter |
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The landlord's black eyed daughter |
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Had watched for her love in the moonlight |
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And died in the darkness there |
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Back he spurred like a madman |
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Shrieking a curse to the sky |
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With the white road smoking |
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Behind him and his rapier |
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Brandished high |
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Blood red were the spurs |
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Then the golden noon; |
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Wine red was his velvet coat |
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When they shot him down |
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On the highway |
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Down like a dog on the highway |
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And he lay in his blood on the highway |
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With the bunch of lace at his throat |
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And still of a winter's night they say |
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When the wind is in the trees |
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When the moon is a ghostly galleon |
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Tossed upon the cloudy seas |
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When the road is a ribbon of moonlight |
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Over the purple moor |
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Oh a highwayman comes riding |
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Riding riding |
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Yes a highwayman comes riding |
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Up to the old indoor |
