{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2382769,"song":"The Highwayman","artist":"Phil Ochs","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11492405-the-highwayman-chords-by-phil-ochs/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2382769?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":52,"content":"Poem by Alfred Noyes\r\n[1st stanza]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe wind was a torrent of darkness[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAmong the gusty trees[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe moon was a ghostly galleon[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nTossed upon cloudy seas[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the road was a ribbon of moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOver the purple moor[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the highwayman came riding, riding, riding[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYes, the highwayman came riding[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nUp to the old inn door[/tab]\r\n\r\n[2nd stanza]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOver the cobbles he clattered[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd clashed in the darkened yard[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd he tapped with his whip at the window[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]                     [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nBut all was locked and barred[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSo he whistled a tune to the window[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd who should be waiting there[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut the landlord's black eyed daughter[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBess the landlord's daughter[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nPlaiting a dark red love knot[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]                 [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nInto her long black hair[/tab]\r\n\r\n[3rd stanza]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOne kiss, my bonny sweetheart[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFor I'm after a prize tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut I shall be back with the yellow gold[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nBefore the morning light[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYet if they press me sharply[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHarry me through the day[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh, then look for me by moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWatch for me by moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll come to thee by moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                         [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nThough Hell should bar the way[/tab]\r\n\r\n[4th stanza]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe did not come at the dawning[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNo, he did not come at the noon[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd out of the tawny sunset[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                     [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nBefore the rise of the moon[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhen the road was a gypsy's ribbon[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nLooping the purple moor[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOh a redcoat troop came marching, marching, marching[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nKing George's men came marching[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                 [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nUp to the old inn door[/tab]\r\n\r\n[5th stanza]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd they bound the landlord's daughter[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWith many a sniggering jest[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd they bound the musket beside her[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]                 [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nWith the barrel beneath her breast[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow keep good watch and they kissed her[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nShe heard the dead man say[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\"Oh look for me by moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWatch for me by moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll come to thee by moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]                 [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nThough Hell should bar the way\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[6th stanza]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nLook for me by moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHoofbeats rining clear[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWatch for me by moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Dm[/ch]                    [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nWere they deaf that they did not hear[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFor he rode on the gypsy highway[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nShe breathed one final breath[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen her finger moved in the moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHer musket shattered the moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd it shattered her breast in the moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]                 [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd warned him with her death[/tab]\r\n\r\n[7th stanza]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOh he turned; he spurred on to the west[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe did not know who stood[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOut with her black hair a flowing down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                         [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nDrenched with her own red blood[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOh not 'til the dawn had he heard it[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd his face grew gray to hear[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHow Bess the landlord's daughter[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe landlord's black eyed daughter[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHad watched for her love in the moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd died in the darkness there[/tab]\r\n\r\n[8th stanza]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBack he spurred like a madman[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nShrieking a curse to the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWith the white road smoking behind him[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd his rapier brandished high[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBlood red were his spurs in the golden noon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWine red his velvet coat[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen they shot him down on the highway[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDown like a dog on the highway[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd he lay in his blood on the highway[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith a bunch of lace at his throat[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd still on a winter's night they say[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen the wind is in the trees[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhen the moon is a ghostly galleon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                  [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nTossed upon cloudy seas[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhen the road is a ribbon of moonlight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOver the purple moor[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOh the highwayman comes riding, riding, riding[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYes the highwayman comes riding[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]G7[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nUp to the old inn door[/tab]","plain_text":"Poem by Alfred Noyes\n[1st stanza]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[2nd stanza]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[3rd stanza]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[4th stanza]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[5th stanza]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[6th stanza]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[7th stanza]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[8th stanza]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["C","Em","Am","F","Dm","G7","E","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}