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The Highwayman chords by
John Otway
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Key: E major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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The Wind
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Was was a torrent of darkness
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Among the gusty trees

The moon was a ghostly galleon
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Tossed upon cloudy seas
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The road was a rhythm of moonlight
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over the purple moon
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On a highway, man, I come a -ridin',
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ridin' up to the old inn door

Over the cobbles,
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he clatters
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and crashes into the dark inn yard
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He taps with his whip on the shutters,
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but all is locked and barred

He whistles a tune to the window,
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and who should be waiting there?
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Be st, the landlord's daughter,
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the landlord's black -eyed daughter
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Clapping a dark red love -knot
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into her long black hair
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One kiss, my bunny sweetheart,
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I'm after a prize tonight
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I'll be back with a yellow gold

before the morning light
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But if they press me sharply
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and carry me through the day
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I'll come to thee by moonlight,
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your hell should bob away
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Out were the tawny sunset,
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over the fertile moor
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King George's men came marching,

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marching up to the holding door

They grabbed the landlord's daughter
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and bound her to the foot of the bed
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Two of them knelt at her casement
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with muskets at their side
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Our best could see through her window,
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the rolls out of here
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would arise.

Well, they bound her up to attention
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With many a sniggering jest
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They bound a musket beside her
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With a muzzle at her breast
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Now Keith did watch and they kissed her
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She heard her dead man say
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He said, watch for me by the moonlight
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For hell shall bar the way

She wretched her hands behind her

But all her knots held good

She wretched her hands till her fingers

Were wet with sweat or blood

She wretched and she

writhed in the moonlight

And the hours crawled by like years
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Till now on the stroke of midnight,
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told on the stroke of midnight,
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the tip of one finger touched it,
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the trigger at least was heard.
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Trot -lot in the frosty silence
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Trot -lot in the echoing night
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Nearer, he came and nearer,
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her face was like a knight,
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her eyes grew wide for a moment,
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she took one last deep breath,

when her finger moved in the moonlight,
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her musket shattered the moonlight,

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shattered her breasts in the moonlight,
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and warned him with her death.
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He turned, he spurred to the west,

he did not know who stood.

Bowed with her head o 'er the musket

and drenched with her own blood.

Not till dawn he heard it,

and his face grew grey to hear,

How Bess, the landlord's daughter,


the landlord's black -eyed daughter,


Had waited for her love in the moonlight

and died in the darkness there.

Back he spurted like a madman,

shrieking a curse to the sky,

With the white road smoking behind him,


and his rapier brandished high.

Blood red were his spurs

in the golden noon,

wine red was his velvet coat.

When they shot him down

on the highway,

down like a dog on the highway,

And he lay in his blood on the highway,


with a bunch of lace at his throat.

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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • C

  • F

  • G

  • Bb

Capo: 2

Transpose: 0

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The original key of The Highwayman by John Otway is E major.

The primary chords used in The Highwayman are E, D, G, A, C.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 2 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like E, D, G, A, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of The Highwayman is approximately 158 beats per minute.

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