| 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 |
| Back |