Just on a small point of fact, this poem relates the end of a highwayman, but not that of Dick Turpin.

Turpin was hanged at York after due trial, having been arrested in conection with the shooting of his landlord's cockerel and identified as Turpin while in prison (he had been hiding out under the name Palmer). He spent most of his criminal career as part of an Essex gang which specialised in robbing isolated houses, sometimes torturing occupants into revealing the whereabouts of their valuables. A one-time butcher, he also went in for the theft of livestock.

I heard this sung by an unknown duo who visited my secondary school around 1970, I can still remember the tune so they must have made an impression, I wonder who they were?