[00:00.00] 作词 : McKennitt, Noyes
[01:08.30]The wind was a torrent of darkness
[01:10.89]Among the gusty trees
[01:12.64]
[01:13.35]The moon was a ghostly galleon
[01:15.81]
[01:16.35]Tossed upon the cloudy seas
[01:18.85]The road was a ribbon of moonlight
[01:22.00]Over the purple moor
[01:24.06]
[01:24.69]And the highwayman came riding
[01:26.94]
[01:27.50]Riding, riding
[01:29.87]
[01:30.81]The highwayman came riding
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[01:33.19]Up to the old inn-door
[01:35.69]
[01:37.78]He'd a French cocked hat on his forehead
[01:40.42]A bunch of lace at his chin
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[01:43.11]A coat of claret velvet
[01:45.18]
[01:45.99]And breeches of brown doe-skin
[01:48.06]
[01:48.75]They fitted with never a wrinkle
[01:51.51]His boots were up to the thigh
[01:54.32]And he rode with a jeweled twinkle
[01:56.66]
[01:57.22]His pistol butts a-twinkle
[01:59.04]
[02:00.29]His rapier hilt a-twinkle
[02:02.05]
[02:02.80]Under the jeweled sky
[02:04.88]
[02:07.51]And over the cobbles he clattered
[02:09.89]And clashed in the dark inn yard
[02:12.08]
[02:12.71]And he tapped with his whip on the shutters
[02:15.66]But all was locked and barred
[02:18.11]He whistled a tune to the window
[02:21.31]And who should be waiting there
[02:23.26]
[02:24.00]But the landlord's black-eyed daughter
[02:26.20]
[02:26.83]Bess, the landlord's daughter
[02:29.21]
[02:30.15]Plaiting a dark red love-knot
[02:32.47]Into her long black hair
[02:34.49]
[02:37.11]"One kiss, my bonny sweetheart
[02:39.49]I'm after a prize tonight
[02:41.56]
[02:42.56]But I shall be back with the yellow gold
[02:45.46]Before the morning light
[02:47.27]
[02:48.27]Yet if they press me sharply
[02:50.33]
[02:50.97]And harry me through the day
[02:53.03]
[02:53.65]Then look for me by the moonlight
[02:56.56]Watch for me by the moonlight
[02:58.80]
[02:59.70]I'll come to thee by the moonlight
[03:02.25]Though hell should bar the way
[03:04.17]
[03:06.67]He rose upright in the stirrups
[03:09.19]He scarce could reach her hand
[03:11.38]
[03:12.14]But she loosened her hair in the casement
[03:14.85]His face burnt like a brand
[03:16.91]
[03:17.60]As the black cascade of the perfume
[03:20.54]Came tumbling over his breast
[03:22.54]
[03:23.29]And he kissed its waves in the moonlight
[03:25.62]
[03:26.30]Oh, sweet waves in the moonlight
[03:28.38]
[03:29.06]He tugged at his rein in the moonlight
[03:31.89]And galloped away to the west
[03:34.39]
[04:00.39]He did not come at the dawning
[04:02.26]
[04:02.83]He did not come at noon
[04:04.96]
[04:05.83]And out of the tawny sunset
[04:08.41]Before the rise o' the moon
[04:10.55]
[04:11.42]When the road was a gypsy's ribbon
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[04:14.10]Looping the purple moor
[04:16.26]
[04:17.00]A red-coat troop came marching
[04:19.27]
[04:20.01]Marching, marching
[04:21.59]
[04:22.90]King George's men came marching
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[04:25.58]Up to the old inn-door
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[04:29.98]They said no word to the landlord
[04:31.94]
[04:32.56]They drank his ale instead
[04:34.32]
[04:35.26]But they gagged his daughter and bound her
[04:38.14]To the foot of her narrow bed
[04:40.34]
[04:40.90]Two of them knelt at the casement
[04:43.73]With muskets at their side
[04:45.61]
[04:46.42]There was death at every window
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[04:49.44]Hell at one dark window
[04:51.62]
[04:52.43]For Bess could see through the casement
[04:55.08]The road that he would ride
[04:57.20]
[04:59.72]They had tied her up to attention
[05:02.17]With many a niggering jest
[05:04.23]
[05:04.97]They had bound a musket beside her
[05:07.86]With the barrel beneath her breast
[05:09.70]
[05:10.39]"Now keep good watch", and they kissed her
[05:13.59]She heard the dead man say
[05:16.23]"Look for me by the moonlight
[05:18.53]
[05:19.30]Watch for me by the moonlight
[05:21.42]
[05:22.01]I'll come to thee by the moonlight
[05:24.76]Though hell should bar the way"
[05:26.77]
[05:29.12]She twisted her hands behind her
[05:31.18]But all the knots held good
[05:33.52]
[05:34.95]She writhed her hands till her fingers
[05:37.53]Were wet with sweat or blood
[05:39.54]
[05:40.42]They stretched and strained in the darkness
[05:43.11]And the hours crawled by like years
[05:45.25]
[05:45.93]Till now on the stroke of midnight
[05:48.13]
[05:48.76]Cold on the stroke of midnight
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[05:51.71]The tip of one finger touched it
[05:54.34]The trigger at least was hers
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[06:13.08]Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, had they heard it?
[06:15.35]
[06:15.90]The horses hoofs ring clear
[06:17.67]
[06:18.61]Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance
[06:21.30]Were they deaf that they did not hear?
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[06:24.50]Down the ribbon of moonlight
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[06:27.08]Over the brow of the hill
[06:29.13]
[06:29.71]The highwayman came riding
[06:31.71]
[06:32.54]Riding, riding
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[06:35.86]The red-coats looked to their priming
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[06:38.17]She stood up straight and still
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[06:42.57]Tlot, in the frosty silence
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[06:45.20]Tlot, in the echoing night
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[06:48.21]Nearer he came and nearer
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[06:50.85]Her face was like a light
[06:52.97]
[06:53.74]Her eyes grew wide for a moment
[06:56.50]She drew one last deep breath
[06:58.56]
[06:59.24]Then her finger moved in the moonlight
[07:02.13]Her musket shattered the moonlight
[07:04.44]
[07:05.26]Shattered her breast in the moonlight
[07:07.75]And warned him with her death
[07:09.81]
[07:12.34]He turned, he spurred to the west
[07:14.85]He did not know she stood
[07:16.94]
[07:17.82]Bowed with her head o'er the musket
[07:20.40]Drenched with her own red blood
[07:22.60]
[07:23.29]Not till the dawn he heard it
[07:26.11]His face grew gray to hear
[07:28.31]
[07:28.94]How Bess, the landlord's daughter
[07:31.04]
[07:31.73]The landlord's black-eyed daughter
[07:33.98]
[07:34.60]Had watched for her love in the moonlight
[07:37.36]And died in the darkness there
[07:39.87]
[07:41.93]And back, he spurred like a madman
[07:44.44]Shrieking a curse to the sky
[07:47.27]With the white road smoking behind him
[07:50.09]And his rapier brandished high
[07:51.98]
[07:52.85]Blood-red were the spurs in the gold moon
[07:55.92]Wine-red was his velvet coat
[07:57.88]
[07:58.50]When they shot him down on the highway
[08:01.39]Down like a dog on the highway
[08:03.58]
[08:04.15]And he lay in his blood on the highway
[08:07.09]With the bunch of lace at his throat
[08:09.24]
[08:27.30]Still of a winter's night, they say
[08:29.92]When the wind is in the trees
[08:31.94]
[08:32.49]When the moon is a ghostly galleon
[08:35.19]Tossed upon the cloudy seas
[08:37.08]
[08:38.20]When the road is a ribbon of moonlight
[08:41.01]Over the purple moor
[08:43.04]
[08:43.66]A highwayman comes riding
[08:45.92]
[08:46.80]Riding, riding
[08:48.56]
[08:49.93]A highwayman comes riding
[08:51.43]
[08:52.55]Up to the old inn-door
[08:55.14]
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