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Thread #174602 Message #4233751
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
03-Jan-26 - 06:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Captain Grant
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Captain Grant
For reference (in case that site isn't durable) here are those lyrics:
Oh me name is Captain Grant and I am bound to say I'm one of them bold heroes found on the highway With a brace of pistols and me bright long sword Stand and deliver was always my word
Well doing the dirty act I always did scorn But taking from the rich, well I thought it no harm So I went collecting, had me cash secured One half I spent and the other I gave to the poor
Oh when I saw poor people starve hungry or dry Well I quickly sought out fair ones and I did them supply In cheerful company, I spent me store And when it's gone, I go boldly collecting more
Brought to Edinburgh jail, then I was passed along And th?re I was confined till me trial, it cam? on I was sentenced to be hanged for sheltering my lay Although I had no hand in that robbery
Ah, but before the day had dawned that I was to be hung I burst through the prison doors and away I did run And I escaped through the castle gates And it was not safe there for me long to wait
Out of Edinburgh jail, then I made my way good And I took up my lodgings that night in a wood But there was a woman who did me betray And I was surprised as asleep there I lay
I was surrounded, away I could not get They seized me pistols for me powder was wet And in me ill fortune, I gave meself up To that noted hero Lord Natty Take-up
Well back to Edinburgh jail, then I was passed along And there I was confined till me trial, it came on I was sentenced to be hanged for sheltering my lay Although I had no hand in that robbery
Oh men, now do forgive me, I pardon receive I've took from the rich for the poor to relieve God bless me wife and child, may they never want Lord have mercy on the soul of poor Captain Grant You know me name is Captain Grant