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The Highwayman letra
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor
And the highwayman came riding
Riding, riding
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door
He'd a French cocked hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin
A coat of claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin
They fitted with never a wrinkle; his boots were up to the thigh!
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle
His pistol butts a-twinkle
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky
Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard
And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter
Bess, the landlord's daughter
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair
One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize tonight
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light
Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day
Then look for me by the moonlight
Watch for me by the moonlight
I'll come to thee by the moonlight, though hell should bar the way
He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand
But she loosened her hair i' the casement! His face burnt like abrand
As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast
And he kissed its waves in the moonlight
(Oh, sweet waves in the moonlight!)
Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight, and galloped away to the west
He did not come at the dawning; he did not come at noon
And out of the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon
When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor
A red-coat troop came marching
Marching, marching
King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door
They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale instead
But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed
Two of them knelt at the casement, with muskets at their side!
there was death at every window
and hell at one dark window
For Bess could see, through the casement
The road that he would ride
They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest
They had bound a musket beside her, with the barrel beneath her breast!
Now keep good watch! - And they kissed her
She heard the dead man say
Look for me by the moonlight
Watch for me by the moonlight
I'll come to thee by the moonlight, though hell should bar the way!
She twisted her hands behind her, but all the knots held good!
She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
They stretched and strained in the darkness and the hours crawled by like years!
Till, now, on the stroke of midnight
Cold, on the stroke of midnight
The tip of one finger touched it!
The trigger at least was hers!
Tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hoofs were ringing clear
Tlot-tlot, in the distance! Were they deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill
The highwayman came riding
Riding, riding!
The red-coats looked to their priming!
She stood up straight and still!
Tlot in the frosty silence! Tlot, in the echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!
Her eyes grew wide for a moment! She drew one last deep breath
Then her finger moved in the moonlight
Her musket shattered the moonlight
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him with her death
He turned; he spurred to the west; he did not know she stood
bowed, with her head o'er the musket, drenched with her own red blood!
Not till the dawn he heard it; his face grew grey to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter
The landlord's black-eyed daughter
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there
Back, he spurred like a mad man, shrieking a curse to the sky
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high!
Blood-red were the spurs i' 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 the bunch of lace at his throat
Still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees
When the moon is a ghostly galleon, tossed upon the cloudy seas
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor
A highwayman comes riding
Riding, riding
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door
Loreena McKennitt - Letras
- A Hundred Wishes
- A Time For Us
- Ages Past, Ages Hence
- Ai Giochi Addio
- All Souls Night
- Annachie Gordon
- As I Roved Out
- Balulalow
- Banks Of Claudy
- Beneath A Phrygian Sky
- Between The Shadows (Persian Shadows)
- Blacksmith
- Bonny Portmore
- Breaking Of The Sword
- Breaking The Silence
- Brian Boru's March
- Caravanserai
- Carrighfergus
- Ce He Mise le Ulaingt?
- Come By The Hills
- Courtyard Lullaby
- Coventry Carol
- Custom Gap
- Cymbeline
- Dante´s Prayer (Spanish Version)
- Dante's Prayer
- Dickens' Dublin
- Down By The Sally Gardens
- Emmanuel
- Full Circle
- Gloucestershire Wassail
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Good King Wenceslas
- Greensleeves
- Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance
- Huron Carol
- In Praise Of Christmas
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Kecharitomene
- Kellswater
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Let All That Are To Mirth Inclined
- Let Us The Infant Greet
- Lost Souls
- Lullaby
- Manx Ayre
- Marco Polo
- Marrakesh Night Market
- Mary And The Soldier
- Moon Cradle
- Mummer's Dance
- Never-Ending Road (Amhrán Duit)
- Night Ride Across The Caucasus
- Noël Nouvelet!
- On A Bright May Morning
- Penelope's Song
- Prospero's Speech
- Raglan Road
- Salvation Contradiction
- Samain Night
- Santiago
- Searching For Lambs
- Seeds Of Love
- She Moved Through The Fair
- Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór / Wild Mountain Thyme (medley)
- Skellig
- Snow
- Spanish Guitars And Night Plazas
- Standing Stones
- Stolen Child
- Sun, Moon And Stars
- Tango to Evora
- The Ballad Of The Fox Hunter
- The Bonny Swans
- The Christmas Bells Carol
- The Dark Night Of The Soul
- The Death Of Queen Jane
- The Emigration Tunes
- The English Ladye And The Knight
- The Foggy Dew
- The Gates Of Istambul
- The Highwayman
- The Holly & The Ivy
- The King
- The Lady Of Shalott
- The Last Unicorn
- The Mummer's Dance
- The Mystic's Dream
- The Old Ways
- The Parting Glass
- The Seasons
- The Seven Rejoices of Mary
- The Star Of The County Down
- The Stolen Child
- The Two Trees
- The Wexford Carol
- The Wind That Shakes The Barley
- To The Fairies They Draw Near
- Wiccan Dance
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