Tonart: E minor•
Verse 1
E
D#m
C
E
Ebm
The wind was
E
Ebm
a torrent of darkness
Eb
Ab
Am
among the gusty trees
Eb
Ebm
E
Moon was a ghostly galleon
E#
Db
Gb
tossed upon cloudy seas
Ebm
And the road was a
ribbon of moonlight
Eb
Ebm
Ab
Am
over the purple moor.
E#
Ebm
Eb
Ab
When the highwayman came riding, riding, riding, yes,
E#
Ebm
Gb
E
Gb
the highwayman came riding up to the golden door
Ebm
and over the cobbles
Eb
Ebm
he clattered and clashed
Ab
in the darkened yard
Eb
E#
he cracked with his whip on the window
Gb
but all was locked in bar
Cb
Ebm
Eb
so he whistled a tune to the window
Ab
Who should be waiting there
Am
E#
But the landlord's black
Eb
G#
Best the landlord's daughter
E#
E
F
Ebm
Plating a dark red love knot
Dm
E
Ebm
F#
Into her long black hair
E#
Ebm
Eb
Now, one kiss, my Bonnie sweetheart
Ebm
G#
for I'm after prize tonight
Eb
and I shall be back with
F#
before the morning light
Ebm
B#
Ebm
yet if they should press me sharply
Eb
Ebm
G#
Am
an d Harry me through the day
G#
E
F#
E
whoa look for me by moonlight
Ebm
Eb
G#
watch for me by moonlight
E
E#
Ebm
And I'll come to thee by moonlight,
F
Dm
E
F#
Though hell should bar the way.
F#
Ebm
B
Ebm
No, he did not come at the dawning,
Eb
Ebm
G#
Am
He did not come at the noon,
Ebm
Eb
E#
And out of the tawny sunset,
F#
Before the rise of the moon,
Ebm
When the road was a gypsy's ribbon
Eb
Ebm
G#
Looping the purple moor
E#
F#
Oh, a redcoat troop came marching,
Ebm
Eb
G#
march ing, marching
E
E#
King George's men came marching
Ebm
E
Ebm
F#
Up to the old inn door
the landlord's daughter
Am
G#
With many a snickering jest
Eb
E#
And they bound the musket beside her
F#
With a barrel beneath her breast
Ebm
Now take good watch,
Ebm
Am
G#
She heard the dead man say
E
E#
F#
Ebm
Oh, look for me by moonlight
Eb
G#
Watch for me by moonlight
E
F#
Ebm
And I'll come to thee by moonlight
F#
E
F#
Though hell should bar the way
F#
B
Ebm
Look for me by moonlight
Eb
Ebm
G#
Am
Hoofbeat s ringing clear
G#
Eb
Ebm
E#
watch for me by moonlight
E
Gb
for the deaf that they did not hear for
Cb
Ebm
he wro te on the gypsy's highway
Eb
Ebm
Am
Ab
she breathed one final breath
E#
Cb#
and her finger moved in the moonlight
Ebm
Eb
Ab
her musket shattered the moonlight
Am
E#
and it shattered her
E
Ebm
breast in the moonlight
Cb
Gb
Gb
an d warned him with her death
Cb
Ebm
he spurred on yes to the West
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Ebm
Am
Ab
E
for he did not know who stood bowed
Ebm
E#
with a black hair of flowing down
Gb
drenched in her own red blood twas
Ebm
not till the dawn that he heard it
Ab
E#
Gb
and his face grew gray to hear how best the landlord's daughter,
Ebm
Eb
Ab
the landlord's black -eyed daughter,
Gb
had watched for her love in the moonlight
Gb
and died in the darkness there.
Cb
Cb#
Ebm
Then he spurred on like a madman,
Eb
Ebm
Ab
shrieking a curse to the sky,
Ebm
E#
with the white road smoking be hind him
Gb
and his rapier brandished high
Ebm
Blood red were his spurs
and the golden moon
Ab
Wine red his velvet coat
E#
when they shot him down on
the highway
Eb
Ab
Down like a dog on the highway
E#
E
and he lay in his blood on the highway
with a bunch of lace at his throat,
but still on a winter's night
when the wind is in the trees,
Ebm
when the moon is a ghostly galle
Ebm
When the road is a ribbon of highway,
Looping the purple moor.
Oh, the highwayman comes riding,
Riding, riding.
Yes, the highwayman comes riding,
Up to the olden door.
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Akkorde & SongtexteE D#m C Ebm Eb...
E
D#m
C
Ebm
Eb
Ab
Am
E#
Db
Gb
Cb
G#
F
Dm
F#
B#
B
Cb#
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E
D#m
C
Ebm
Eb
Ab
Am
E#
Db
Gb
Cb
G#
F
Dm
F#
B#
B
Cb#
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