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Can you name the The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes?
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And the highwayman can riding-
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riding--riding--
83.5%
The highwayman came riding-
-
riding--riding--
83.5%
The highwayman comes riding-
-
riding--riding--
83.5%
The highwayman came riding,
up to the old inn door.
80.4%
King George's men came marching,
up to the old inn door.
80.4%
The highwayman comes riding,
up to the old inn door.
77.3%
The moon was a ghostly galleon
tossed upon cloudy seas
76.3%
When the moon is a ghostly galleon
tossed upon cloudy seas,
76.3%
When the road was a gypsy's ribbon
over the purple moor,
72.2%
But the landlord's black-
eyed daughter-
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Bess, the landlord's daughter--
63.9%
But the landlord's black-
eyed daughter-
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Bess, the landlord's daughter--
63.9%
He'd a french cocked hat on his forehead,
and a bunch of lace at his chin;
60.8%
Plaiting a dark red love knot
into her long black hair.
56.7%
Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
56.7%
'Look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
56.7%
Plaiting a dark red love-
knot
into her long black hair.
56.7%
I'll come to thee by moonlight,
though hell should bar the way.'
55.7%
I'll come to thee by moonlight,
though Hell should bar the way.'
55.7%
The redcoat troops came marching-
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Marching--marching--
52.6%
'One kiss my bonny sweetheart;
I'm after a prize tonight,
51.5%
He did not come in the dawning;
he did not come at noon.
50.5%
He whistled a tune to the window,
and who should be waiting there
47.4%
But he loved the landlord's daughter-
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The landlord's black-eyed daughter;
47.4%
They said no word to the landlord;
they drank his ale instead,
47.4%
How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
47.4%
He whistles a tune to the window,
and who should be waiting there
47.4%
He tapped with his whip on the shutters,
but all was locked and barred,
44.3%
But I shall be back with the yellow gold
before the morning light.
44.3%
For Bess could see, through her casement,
the road that he would ride.
44.3%
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And he rode with a jeweled twinkle-
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His rapier hilt a twinkle--
43.3%
The road was a ribbon of moonlight
looping the purple moor,
42.3%
But they gagged his daughter and bound her
to the foot of her narrow bed.
42.3%
There was death at every window,
and hell at one dark window,
42.3%
The tip of one finger touched it!
The trigger at least was hers!
42.3%
When the road is a gypsy's ribbon
looping the purple moor,
42.3%
Yet if they press me sharply,
and harry me through the day,
40.2%
Shattered her breast in the moonlight
and warned him--with her death.
40.2%
They had tied a rifle beside her,
with the barrel beneath her breast!
38.1%
Up, she stood up at attention,
with the barrel beneath her breast.
38.1%
Had watched for her love in the moonlight,
and died in the darkness there.
38.1%
He stood upright in the stirrups;
he scarce could reach her hand,
37.1%
And out of the tawny sunset,
before the rise of the moon,
36.1%
His pistol butts a-
twinkle,
under the jeweled sky.
35.1%
Over the cobbles he clattered
and clashed in the dark inn-yard,
35.1%
And he tugged at his reins in the moonlight,
and galloped away to the west.
35.1%
'Now keep good watch!' and they kissed her.
She heard the dead man say,
35.1%
She writhed her hands till her fingers
were wet with sweat or blood!
35.1%
Blood red were his spurs in the golden noon,
wine red was his velvet coat
34%
With the white road smoking behind him
and his rapier brandished high!
33%
They had bound her up at attention,
with many a sniggering jest!
32%
She twisted her hands behind her,
but all the knots held good!
32%
Till, on the stroke of midnight,
Cold on the stroke of midnight,
32%
And still on a winter's night they say,
when the wind is in the trees,
32%
He taps with his whip on the shutters,
but all is locked and barred,
32%
The redcoats looked to their priming!
She stood up straight and still.
30.9%
When they shot him down in the highway,
Down like a dog in the highway,
29.9%
They fitted with never a wrinkle;
his boots were up to his thigh!
27.8%
Not till the dawn did he hear it,
and his face grew grey to hear
27.8%
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Back he spurred like a madman,
shrieking a curse to the sky,
27.8%
Dark in the dark old inn-
yard
a stable-wicket creaked
26.8%
But she loosened her hair in the casement!
His face burnt like a brand
26.8%
They stretched and strained in the darkness,
and the hours crawled by like years,
26.8%
Nearer he came and nearer!
Her face was like a light!
26.8%
Then her finger moved in the moonlight-
-
-
her musket shattered the moonlight--
26.8%
Bowed with her head o'er the casement,
drenched in her own red blood!
26.8%
And he lay in his blood in the highway,
with a bunch of lace at his throat.
26.8%
Tlot tlot, tlot tlot, in the distance!
Were they deaf that they did not hear?
25.8%
Tlot tlot, in the frosty silence!
Tlot tlot, in the echoing night!
25.8%
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs
in the dark inn-yard,
25.8%
Dumb as a dog he listened,
and he heard the robber say:
24.7%
The tip of one finger touched it,
she strove no more for the rest;
24.7%
Where Tim, the ostler listened-
-
his face was white and peaked--
23.7%
Down the ribbon of moonlight,
over the brow of the hill,
23.7%
Her eyed grew wide for a moment,
she drew one last deep breath,
22.7%
He turned, he spurred to the west;
he did not know who stood
22.7%
His eyes were hollows of madness,
his hair like mouldy hay,
21.6%
For the road lay bare in the moonlight,
Blank and bare in the moonlight,
20.6%
As the sweet black waves of perfume
came tumbling o'er his breast,
19.6%
She would not risk their hearing,
she would not strive again,
17.5%
And the blood in her veins, in the moonlight,
throbbed to her love's refrain.
17.5%
The wind was a torrent of darkness
upon the gusty trees
14.4%
Then he kissed its waves in the moonlight
O sweet black waves in the moonlight
11.3%
Tlot tlot, tlot tlot! Had they heard it?
The horse hooves, ringing clear;
9.3%
He'd a coat of the claret velvet,
and breeches of fine doe-skin.
8.2%
Two of them knelt at her casement,
with muskets by their side;
6.2%
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