[ti:The Highwayman]
[ar:Phil Ochs]
[al:There But For Fortune]
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[00:00.81]The Highwayman - Phil Ochs
[00:04.31]The wind was a torrent of darkness
[00:06.81]
[00:08.44]Among the gusty trees
[00:12.37]The moon was a ghostly galleon
[00:14.63]
[00:15.52]Tossed upon the cloudy seas
[00:18.80]The road was a ribbon of moonlight
[00:22.84]Over the purple moor
[00:25.84]And the highwayman came riding
[00:29.65]Riding  riding
[00:32.16]Yes the highwayman came riding
[00:36.32]Up to the old indoor
[00:40.55]Over the cobbles he clattered
[00:43.55]And clashed in the dark innyard
[00:47.04]And he tapped with his whip on the shutters
[00:50.77]But all was locked and barred;
[00:54.35]So he whistled a tune to the window
[00:58.27]Who should be waiting there
[01:01.12]But the landlord's black eyed daughter
[01:06.10]Bess  the landlord's daughter
[01:09.12]Plaiting a dark red love knot
[01:12.79]Into her long black hair
[01:16.45]One kiss  my bonny sweetheart
[01:18.82]
[01:19.87]I'm after a prize tonight
[01:23.44]But I shall be back with the yellow gold
[01:27.21]Before the morning light;
[01:30.56]Yet if they press me sharply
[01:34.04]And harry me through the day
[01:37.41]Then look for me by moonlight
[01:41.81]Watch for me by the moonlight
[01:44.58]And I'll come to thee by moonlight
[01:48.46]Though hell should bar the way
[01:52.59]He did not come at the dawning;
[01:55.83]No he did not come at noon
[01:59.41]And out of the tawny sunset
[02:02.97]Before the rise of the moon
[02:06.07]When the road was a gypsy's ribbon
[02:10.10]Looping the purple moor
[02:13.02]Oh a red coat troop came marching
[02:16.55]Marching  marching
[02:19.55]King George's men came marching
[02:22.74]Up to the old indoor
[02:26.20]They boought the landlow catter
[02:29.92]With many a sniggering jest;
[02:33.38]They had bound a musket beside her
[02:36.58]With the barrel beneath her breast
[02:39.85]Now keep good watch
[02:42.20]And they kissed her
[02:44.05]She heard the dead man say
[02:47.13]
[02:48.02]Look for me by  moonlight
[02:50.38]
[02:51.82]Watch for me by  moonlight
[02:54.51]And I'll come to thee by  moonlight
[02:58.50]Though hell should bar the way
[03:03.03]Look for me by  moonlight
[03:06.36]Look it again in clear
[03:10.08]Watch for me by moonlight
[03:12.61]Where they dead that they did not here for he
[03:17.00]Road down the Gypsy highway
[03:20.17]She brings one final brother
[03:23.04]That her finger move then the moon light
[03:27.40]Her must keep shat her the moonlight
[03:29.73]
[03:30.33]And then shat her brighten the moonlight
[03:34.54]And walk him with her down
[03:38.02]Oh
[03:38.32]He turned; he spurred to the west;
[03:41.65]He did not know who stood
[03:45.19]Now  with her black over follow down
[03:48.20]Drenched with her own red blood
[03:51.27]No not till the dawn had heard it;
[03:55.42]And his face grew grey to hear
[03:58.71]How Bess  the landlord's daughter
[04:03.15]The landlord's black eyed daughter
[04:05.99]Had watched for her love in the moonlight
[04:09.83]And died in the darkness there
[04:14.18]Back  he spurred like a madman
[04:17.28]Shrieking a curse to the sky
[04:20.65]With the white road smoking
[04:22.49]Behind him and his rapier
[04:25.31]Brandished high
[04:27.57]Blood red were the spurs
[04:29.34]Then the golden noon;
[04:31.37]Wine red was his velvet coat
[04:34.29]When they shot him down
[04:36.15]On the highway
[04:38.43]Down like a dog on the highway
[04:41.35]And he lay in his blood on the highway
[04:45.33]With the bunch of lace at his throat
[04:49.36]And still of a winter's night  they say
[04:52.88]When the wind is in the trees
[04:56.35]When the moon is a ghostly galleon
[05:00.46]Tossed upon the cloudy seas
[05:03.65]When the road is a ribbon of moonlight
[05:07.83]Over the purple moor
[05:10.95]Oh a  highwayman comes riding
[05:14.76]Riding  riding
[05:17.64]Yes a highwayman comes riding
[05:21.78]Up to the old indoor