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Johnny Cash - Highwayman
Author And Composer: Jimmy Webb
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I was a highwayman
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Along the coach roads I did ride
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With sword and pistol by my side
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Many a young girl lost her
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Baubles to my trade
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Many a soldier shed his lifeblood
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On my blade
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They finally hung me in the
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Spring of twenty-five
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But I am still alive
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I was a sailor
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I was born upon the tide
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And with the sea I did abide
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I sailed a schooner round
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The horn to Mexico
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I went aloft and furled the
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Mainsail in a blow
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And when the yards broke off
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They said that I got killed
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But I am living still
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I was a dam builder across
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The river deep and wide
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Where steel and water
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Did collide
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A place called Boulder on
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The wild Colorado
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I slipped and fell into the
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Wet concrete below
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They buried me in that great
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Tomb that knows no sound
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But I am still around
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Yes I'll always be around
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And around and around and
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Around and around
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Around
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I fly a starship across the
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Universe divide
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And when I reach the other side
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I'll find a place to rest
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My spirit if I can
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Perhaps I may become a highwayman
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Again
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Or I may simply be a single
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Drop of rain
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But I will remain and I'll
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Be back again
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And again and again and again
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And again and again
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