Tonalidad: E minor•
Verse 1
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The wind was
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a torrent of darkness
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among the gusty trees
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Moon was a ghostly galleon
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tossed upon cloudy seas
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And the road was a
ribbon of moonlight
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over the purple moor.
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Ebm
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When the highwayman came riding, riding, riding, yes,
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Gb
the highwayman came riding up to the golden door
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and over the cobbles
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he clattered and clashed
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in the darkened yard
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he cracked with his whip on the window
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but all was locked in bar
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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
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-eyed daughter
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Best the landlord's daughter
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Ebm
Plating a dark red love knot
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Ebm
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Into her long black hair
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Now, one kiss, my Bonnie sweetheart
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for I'm after prize tonight
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and I shall be back with
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the yellow gold
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before the morning light
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yet if they should press me sharply
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an d Harry me through the day
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whoa look for me by moonlight
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watch for me by moonlight
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Ebm
And I'll come to thee by moonlight,
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Though hell should bar the way.
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No, he did not come at the dawning,
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He did not come at the 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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F#
Oh, a redcoat troop came marching,
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march ing, marching
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King George's men came marching
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Up to the old inn door
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And they bound
the landlord's daughter
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With many a snickering jest
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And they bound the musket beside her
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With a barrel beneath her breast
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Now take good watch,
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and they kissed her
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She heard the dead man say
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Oh, look for me by moonlight
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Watch for me by moonlight
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F#
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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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Hoofbeat s ringing clear
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watch for me by moonlight
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for the deaf that they did not hear for
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he wro te on the gypsy's highway
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she breathed one final breath
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and her finger moved in the moonlight
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her musket shattered the moonlight
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and it shattered her
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breast in the moonlight
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an d warned him with her death
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he spurred on yes to the West
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for he did not know who stood bowed
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with a black hair of flowing down
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drenched in her own red blood twas
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not till the dawn that he heard it
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and his face grew gray to hear how best 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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Then he spurred on like a madman,
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shrieking a curse to the sky,
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with the white road smoking be hind him
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and his rapier brandished high
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Blood red were his spurs
and the golden moon
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Wine red his velvet coat
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when they shot him down on
the highway
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Ab
Down like a dog on the highway
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and he lay in his blood on the highway
with a bunch of lace at his throat,
but still on a winter's night
when the wind is in the trees,
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when the moon is a ghostly galle
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on tossed upon cloudy
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When the road is a ribbon of highway,
Looping the purple moor.
Oh, the highwayman comes riding,
Riding, riding.
Yes, the highwayman comes riding,
Up to the olden door.
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