Highwayman (video)

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1. I was a highwayman, along the coach roads I did ride,

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sword and pistol by my side.

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Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade,

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many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade.

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The bastards hung me in the spring of forty-five,

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but I am still alive.

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2. I was a sailor, I was born upon the tide,

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with the sea I did abide.

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I sailed a schooner round the horn of Mexico,

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I went aloft and furled the main sail in a blow.

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And when the yards broke off, they say that I got killed,

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but I am living still.

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3. I was a dam builder, across a river deep and wide,

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where steel and water did collide.

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A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado,

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I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below.

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They buried me in that gray tomb that knows no sound,

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but I am still around.

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I'll always be around, and around, and around, and around,

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and around.

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4. I'll fly a star ship across the universe divide,

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and when I reach the other side

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I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can.

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Perhaps I may become a highwayman again,

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or I may simply be a single drop of rain,

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but I will remain.

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And I'll be back again, and again, and again, and again,

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and again.

(orig. = capo 2nd) (Highwaymen)