up to the old inn-door. |
The highwayman comes riding |
Riding riding |
The highwayman comes riding |
When the road is a gypsy's ribbon looping the purple moor |
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas |
when the wind is in the trees |
they say |
And still on a winter's night |
with the bunch of lace at his throat. |
And he lay in his blood in the highway |
Down like a dog in the highway |
When they shot him down in the highway |
wine-red was his velvet coat |
Blood-red were his spurs in the golden noon |
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! |
shrieking a curse to the sky |
he spurred like a madman |
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