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I'd never have guessed there were so many different versions ha ha..I did see a mention of the Mckennit version on a messageboard and hoped to find it to listen to over the net,but I didnt find any...Dave had this poem sent to him by a lady friend sometime ago who suggested he might like to give it his treatment....I wouldnt be surprised if his friend hadnt come across it probably from that Phil Ochs version that was mentioned because Dave has been a regular performer on the London Bohemian type open mike acoustic music poetry scene and was a regular performer at the famous but now extinct "Bunjies Folk Cellar" for getting on for the last 40 years..Though! he himself performed it on my recording somewhat spontaneosly providing the music on keyboard made up on the spot to suit the mood of the poem....we are going to use this track on a CD I am putting together of poems recorded by him unusualy for(he's usualy purely acoustic) him accompanied by his own keyboard playing...
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes 1888 - 1958 performed by Dave Russell