The Highwayman chords by Don Partridge
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Intro 1
(C minor) (G major) (C major) (C minor)
(A minor) (G major) (D major) (G major)
Verse 1
The wind (C minor)
was a torrent (G major) of darkness
Among the gusty trees
(C major) The (C minor) moon was a ghostly (A minor) galleon
tossed (G major) upon the cloudy (F major) sea. (C major)
(C minor) Road was a ribbon of (G major) moonlight
over the purple moor. (C major)
When (C minor) the high women came riding,
(A minor) the (G major) high women came riding (F major) up
to (C major) the Odin (G major) door. (D major) (G major)
French (D major) cock had on his forehead
a bunch of lace at his chin
A (G major) coat of claret velvet,
breeches of fine dull skin
It (D major) fitted without a wrinkle,
his boots rose to the thigh
And he (F major) rode with a duel twinkle,
(G major) his pistol butts a sparkle
His (D major) rabia held to glisten
un (B flat major) der (C major) the dueled sky (D major)
Over (G major) the cobbles he clattered,
clanked in the Odin guard
Tapped his whip on the shutters,
but all was locked and barred
He whistled a tune at the window,
the casement opened there
To best the landlord's (D major) daughter,
(E minor) the landlord's black -eyed daughter
(C minor) Grating a dark red (E minor) love knot
into (A minor) a long black (G major) bow
(C minor) One kiss, my bunny (G major) sweetheart,
I'm after a prize tonight
(C major) (C minor) I shall be (A flat major) back
with the yellow (A minor) gold
Before (G major) the (B minor) morning light (G major)
(C major) But (C minor) if they press me (G major) sharply
And harry me through the (C major) day
Then (C minor) watch for me by moonlight
(A minor) I'll (G major) come to thee by (D major) moonlight
(G major) Though hell should bar the way
He (D major) rose up in his stirrups
So he could reach her hand
She (G major) loosed her hair from the window,
his face burned like a brand
As (D major) a black cascade of perfume
came tumbling down his breast
He (F major) kissed its waves in the moonlight,
(G major) sweet black waves in the (D major) moonlight
He tugged at his reins in the (B flat major) moonlight
and (C major) galloped away (D major) to the west
But (G major) in the dark old inyard,
the stable wicked tweaked
Where Tim the Oscillor listened,
his face was white (D major) with pee
His (G major) eyes were hollows of madness,
hair like bony hay
And he loved the landlord's (D major) daughter,
(E minor) the landlord's black -eyed (B minor) daughter
And he (C major) made off to King George's (E minor) men,
(A minor) his treach (D major) ery to (G major) be frayed
(C minor) Highwoman came not (G major) in the dawning,
he did not come at (C major) noon
(C minor) Out in the tawny sunset,
(A minor) before the (G major) rising of (D major) the (G major) moon
(C major) When (C minor) the road was a
gypsy's (G major) ribbon,
looping the purple morn (C major)
King (C minor) George's men came march (A minor) ing,
the (G major) red coat troops (D major) came marching
(G major) Up to the old inn door
They (D major) said no word to the landlord,
he drank his ale instead
They (G major) gagged his black -eyed daughter,
tied her to a bed
Two (D major) troopers at a window,
with muskets at their side
There was (F major) death at every window,
and (G major) hell at one dark window
(D major) For best could see out through the glass,
(B flat major) the road (C major) where he (D major) would ride
They (G major) tied her to a tension,
many a lonely jest
They bound a musketeer
with a barrel to (D major) her breast
Now (G major) keep good watch, they sneered,
but she could hear her lover say
Watch for me by (D major) moonlight,
I'll (E minor) come to thee by (B minor) moonlight
Come (C major) to thee by moon (E minor) light,
(A minor) though hell should fall (G major) away
(C minor) She twisted her hands (G major) be hind her
But all the knots held (C major) good
She (C minor) stretched (F major) an
d strained till (C major) her fingers
(A minor) Were (D major) wet with the (G major) crimson blood
She (C major) (C minor) stretched and strained
in the (G major) darkness
And the hours they seemed like (C major) years
Till (C minor) on the (E flat major) stroke of midnight
(A minor) Her (G major) little finger (D major) touched it,
(G major) and the trig (C major) ger now (G major) was hers.
(D major) Horse hooves, had they heard them,
horse hooves ringing clear.
(G major) Horse hooves in the distance,
were they deaf, they did not hear.
(D major) Down the ribbon of moonlight,
over the brow of the hill.
(F major) The high women came riding,
(G major) the high women came riding.
Red (D major) coats to their priming,
(B flat major) Bess stood (C major) up straight (D major) and still.
(G major) Who's in the frosty silence?
Who's in the echoed night?
Nearer he came and nearer,
her face was like a (D major) light.
Her (G major) eyes grew wide a moment,
she drew her last deep breath.
Then her finger moved in
(D minor) the moonlight,
(E minor) musket shattered the (B minor) moonlight.
(C major) Shattered her breast in the (E minor) moonlight,
(A minor) and warned him with her (G major) death.
He (C minor) turned and spurred to (G major) the westward,
but did not know who stood (C major)
(C minor) Bowed with her head on the (A minor) mus ket,
and (G major) drenched in her old red blood (C major)
(C minor) But till the dawn did (G major) he hear it,
and slowly he plunged to (C major) hear
(C minor) How best a landlord's (A minor) daughter
had (G major) watched for a (D major) love in the moonlight
(G major) and died in the darkness there
Back (D major) he rode like a madman,
shrieking a curse to the sky
The (G major) white road smoking behind him,
maybe a brandy's time
And (D major) reddish smurfs in the golden dew,
wine -redded velvet coat
(F major) When they shot him down on
(G major) the highway,
down like a dog (D major) on the highway
Laying his blood on (B flat major) the highway
with a (C major) bloodshed blaze (D major) at his throat (G major) (D major) (G major)
(D major) (E minor) (B minor)
(C major) (E minor) (A minor) (G major)
(C minor) (G major)
(C major) (C minor) (A minor)
(G major) (D major) (F major) (C major) (G major)
(D major) Still of a winter's night,
they say,
when the wind is in the trees
The (G major) moon is a ghostly galleon,
tossed on cloudy seas
The (D major) road is a gypsy's river,
looping the purple moor
The (F major) moonraker comes riding,
(G major) the moonraker comes riding
The (D major) moonraker comes riding,
(B flat major) up to (C major) the old hill (D major) moor
Over (G major) the cobbled he clatters,
bangs in the olding guard
Taps his whip on the shutters,
but all is locked and barred
He whistles a tune at the window,
and who should be waiting there?
But Bess, the landlord's (D major) daughter,
the (E minor) landlord's black -eyed (B minor) daughter,
He comes to her by moonlight, (E minor)
and oh, (A minor) how I can bother her (G major) !
Outro 1
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The Highwayman
Don Partridge
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