THE HIGHWAYMAN OUTWITTED (The Rich Farmer of Chesterfield)

1 0 there was a rich farmer of Chest'field,
And to market his daughter did go;
She was thinking that nothing would happen,
For she'd been on the highway before.

2 She met with three daylighted robbers,
And three links they did hold to her breast;
' You'll deliver your clothes and your money,
Or else you shall die in distress '.

3 They stripped the poor damsel stark naked,
And they gave her the bridle to hold;
And there she stood shivering and shaking,
Much perished to death by the cold.

4 She slipped her right foot in the stirrup,
And she mounted her horse like a man :
Over hedges and ditches she galloped,
' Come, catch me, bold rogues, if you can !'

5 Well, she rode to the gates of her father,
Shee shouted, her voice like a man;
' Dear father, I've been in great danger,
But the rogues didn't do me no harm '.

6 She whipped the grey mare to the stable,
And white sheets she spread on the floor;
She counted her money twice over,
She'd five hundred bright pounds, if not more.


from the singing of Caroline Hughes, Poole, Dorset, 1964
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