Chords for Highwayman - Loreena Mckennit

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[D] Wind was a torrent of darkness [A] among the ghastly [D] trees
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloud of seas
The road was a ribbon [C] of moonlight [Dm] over the purple [G] moon
And the highwayman came riding
[A] Riding, [C]
riding
The highwayman [C] came riding [D] up to the golden [G]
door
_ [Dm] He had a French cocktail on his forehead, a bunch of lace [D] on his chin
A cord of claret [Dm] velvet and breeches of brown [D] door skin
They fitted [C] with a nap of a wrinkle, his boots were up [G] to the thigh
And he rode with a jewel [C] twinkle, [Bb] his pistol [C] buds a twinkle
His rapier a hilt a [F] twinkle
[Dm] Under the jewel [Gm] spine
_ [Dm] And of a cob was he clattered and clashed in the [D] darkened yard
And he tapped with his whip on the shepherds, the gall was locked [Dm] and barred
[D] He [C] whistled a tune to the window and who should be waiting there?
[G] But the landlord's black [C]-eyed daughter
[Dm] The best of [C] landlord's daughter
[D] Pleading a dark [F] red love-knot [Dm] into her long black [D] hair
_ And kiss my bum, my sweetheart, I'm after a prize [Dm] tonight
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the [D] morning light
Yet he [C] would press me sharply
And hurry me through [G] the day
Then look [C] for me by the moonlight
[Dm] Watch for me [C] by the moonlight
[Dm] I'll come to thee [F] by the moonlight
Though hell should bar [Gm] the way _ _
[Dm] He rose up right in the steps, his scarce could reach a hand
But she loosened her care in the casement, [Bb] his face blue like [Dm] a brand
As a black [C] cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast
And he kissed its waves in the moonlight
[Dm] Oh, sweet waves [C] in the moonlight
Tugged to his rein [F] in the moonlight and galloped away [G] to the land
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_ [G] _ _ _ [D] did not come at the dawning, he did not come at noon
And out of the tawny sunset before the rise of the moon
When [G] the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moon
A rancor troop came marching, [C] marching, marching
[Dm] King George's men [F] came arching up to the [Gm] olden door
_ [Dm] They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale [D] instead
But they gagged his daughter and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed
Tooth [C] then knelt in the casement [Dm] with muskets at [C] the side
There was death at every window, [Dm] hell at one [C] dark window
For best could see [F] through the casement [Dm] the road he [G] would [D] ride _
They tied her up [Dm] to a tension with many a [D] sniggering chest
They bound a [A] musket beside her with a barrel beneath [D] her breast
Now keep [C] good watch when they kissed her, she heard the dead man say
Look for me by the moonlight, [Dm] watch for me [C] by the moonlight
I'll come to thee [F] by the moonlight, though hell should bar the [G] way
_ She [Dm] twisted her hands behind her, but all the knots still hold her
She writhed with hands to her fingers, were wet with sweat and blood
They stretched [C] and strained in the darkness, and the hour's called but like years
To now the stroke of midnight, called on the stroke of midnight
The tip of the finger [F] touched him, the trigger at least [Gm] was heard
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[D] Tot-la, tot-la, tot-la, [A] tot-la, _ [D]
tot-la, tot-la, tot-la, tot-la, tot-la
Tot-la, tot-la, tot-la, tot-la, tot-la, tot-la, tot-la, tot-la
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the [C] reef in the moonlight, [D] over the brow [C] of the hill
The highwayman came riding, riding, riding
The redcoats locked [F] up her ironing, she [Dm] stood up straight [D] and still
_ Tot-la to the frosty sides, tot-la to the yick'ry [Dm] night
_ Nearer came and nearer, her face was like [D] a light
[Gm] Her eyes grew wide [D] for a moment, she drew [Gm] one last deep breath
Then her finger [D] moved in the moonlight, [Gm] her mask had shattered the moonlight
[Dm] Shattered her breast in the moonlight, and warmed him with [Gm] her death
[D] _ He turned [Dm] his fur to the west, he did not know she stood
But with her head of a mustard, drenched with her own red blood
[Gm] Not here [C] the dawn he heard her, his face could play to hear
Up there's the landlord's daughter, the landlord's black-eyed daughter
[Dm] Had watched for her love [F] in the moonlight, and died in the [Gm] darkness there
On [Dm] the back he stood like a madman, shaking her curse to the sky
With a white-rolled smoke behind him, and his rapier brandished high
Blood red were [C] the spurs of the golden moon, whining 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 [F] on the highway, with a flung chalice [G] on his throat _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] He watched [Dm] for the winter's night, this scene where the wind is hewn of trees
When the moon is a ghost, a gallant, tossed upon the cloud [D] he sees
When the road is a [F] ribbon of moonlight, [Dm] over the purple [G] moon
The highwayman comes riding, riding, riding
The highwayman [F] comes riding, up to the old [D] inn door _
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