| 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 |