《The Highwayman(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:00] The Highwayman - Phil Ochs

[00:00:04] The wind was a torrent of darkness

[00:00:08] Among the gusty trees

[00:00:12] The moon was a ghostly galleon

[00:00:15] Tossed upon the cloudy seas

[00:00:18] The road was a ribbon of moonlight

[00:00:22] Over the purple moor

[00:00:25] And the highwayman came riding

[00:00:29] Riding riding

[00:00:32] Yes the highwayman came riding

[00:00:36] Up to the old indoor

[00:00:40] Over the cobbles he clattered

[00:00:43] And clashed in the dark innyard

[00:00:47] And he tapped with his whip on the shutters

[00:00:50] But all was locked and barred;

[00:00:54] So he whistled a tune to the window

[00:00:58] Who should be waiting there

[00:01:01] But the landlord's black eyed daughter

[00:01:06] Bess the landlord's daughter

[00:01:09] Plaiting a dark red love knot

[00:01:12] Into her long black hair

[00:01:16] One kiss my bonny sweetheart

[00:01:19] I'm after a prize tonight

[00:01:23] But I shall be back with the yellow gold

[00:01:27] Before the morning light;

[00:01:30] Yet if they press me sharply

[00:01:34] And harry me through the day

[00:01:37] Then look for me by moonlight

[00:01:41] Watch for me by the moonlight

[00:01:44] And I'll come to thee by moonlight

[00:01:48] Though hell should bar the way

[00:01:52] He did not come at the dawning;

[00:01:55] No he did not come at noon

[00:01:59] And out of the tawny sunset

[00:02:02] Before the rise of the moon

[00:02:06] When the road was a gypsy's ribbon

[00:02:10] Looping the purple moor

[00:02:13] Oh a red coat troop came marching

[00:02:16] Marching marching

[00:02:19] King George's men came marching

[00:02:22] Up to the old indoor

[00:02:26] They boought the landlow catter

[00:02:29] With many a sniggering jest;

[00:02:33] They had bound a musket beside her

[00:02:36] With the barrel beneath her breast

[00:02:39] Now keep good watch

[00:02:42] And they kissed her

[00:02:44] She heard the dead man say

[00:02:48] Look for me by moonlight

[00:02:51] Watch for me by moonlight

[00:02:54] And I'll come to thee by moonlight

[00:02:58] Though hell should bar the way

[00:03:03] Look for me by moonlight

[00:03:06] Look it again in clear

[00:03:10] Watch for me by moonlight

[00:03:12] Where they dead that they did not here for he

[00:03:17] Road down the Gypsy highway

[00:03:20] She brings one final brother

[00:03:23] That her finger move then the moon light

[00:03:27] Her must keep shat her the moonlight

[00:03:30] And then shat her brighten the moonlight

[00:03:34] And walk him with her down

[00:03:38] Oh

[00:03:38] He turned; he spurred to the west;

[00:03:41] He did not know who stood

[00:03:45] Now with her black over follow down

[00:03:48] Drenched with her own red blood

[00:03:51] No not till the dawn had heard it;

[00:03:55] And his face grew grey to hear

[00:03:58] How Bess the landlord's daughter

[00:04:03] The landlord's black eyed daughter

[00:04:05] Had watched for her love in the moonlight

[00:04:09] And died in the darkness there

[00:04:14] Back he spurred like a madman

[00:04:17] Shrieking a curse to the sky

[00:04:20] With the white road smoking

[00:04:22] Behind him and his rapier

[00:04:25] Brandished high

[00:04:27] Blood red were the spurs

[00:04:29] Then the golden noon;

[00:04:31] Wine red was his velvet coat

[00:04:34] When they shot him down

[00:04:36] On the highway

[00:04:38] Down like a dog on the highway

[00:04:41] And he lay in his blood on the highway

[00:04:45] With the bunch of lace at his throat

[00:04:49] And still of a winter's night they say

[00:04:52] When the wind is in the trees

[00:04:56] When the moon is a ghostly galleon

[00:05:00] Tossed upon the cloudy seas

[00:05:03] When the road is a ribbon of moonlight

[00:05:07] Over the purple moor

[00:05:10] Oh a highwayman comes riding

[00:05:14] Riding riding

[00:05:17] Yes a highwayman comes riding

[00:05:21] Up to the old indoor