Lyr Req: Highway Lady?

Subject: Lyr Req: Highway Lady?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Dec 24 - 09:34 PM

I'm looking for the song where a lady disguises herself as a highwayman and confronts her fiancé to test his courage. He gives up his gold and silver but refuses to give up his gold ring. She then admits who she really is and says that if he had given up "her ring" she would have shot him dead, and they ride off happily ever after.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Highway Lady?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Dec 24 - 10:03 PM

Oh, it's titled "Sovay, the Female Highwayman"a

Here's the Pentangle version:

Sovay, the Female Highwayman

Sovay, Sovay all on a day
She dressed herself in man's array
With a brace of pistols all by her side
To meet her true love, to meet her true love, she did ride.

As she was riding over the plain
She met her true love and bid him stand,
"Stand and deliver, young man,' she said
"And If and you do not, and if and you do not, I'll shoot you dead!'

He delivered up his golden store
And still she craved for one thing more;
"That diamond ring, that diamond ring that I see you wear
Oh hand it over, oh hand it over, and your life I'll spare.'

"That diamond ring I wouldn't part
For it's a token from me sweetheart;
You shoot and be damned, you rogue," said he.
"And you'll be hanged, and you'll be hanged for murdering me.'

Next morning in the garden green
Young Sophie and her love were seen;
He spied his watch hanging by her clothes
Which made him blush lads, which made him blush, lads, like any rose.

"Why do you blush, you foolish thing,
I thought to have that diamond ring;
'Twas I who robbed you all on the plain
So here's your gold, so here's your gold and your watch and chain.'

"I only did it for to know
Whether you were a man or no;
"If you had given me that ring," she said,
"I'd have pulled the trigger, I'd have pulled the trigger and shot you dead.'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Highway Lady?
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 07 Dec 24 - 04:57 AM

Or try this one:

Album: Since Time Immoral – Artist: The Kipper Family

It’s of a female highwayman all on a summer’s day
She said a frolic I will have and dress in man’s array

And I’ll ride out along the lea
And hope my true love I shall see
And there I’ll test his constancy
With a female highwayman.
With a female highwayman
With a female highwayman
–last two lines of verse–

And so this female highwayman has mounted on a horse
And she’s rode out and there she’s met her own true
love, of course
” Stand and deliver sir”, she said,
” Or if you don’t I’ll shoot you dead
Or would you rather come to bed
With a female highwayman?”

So they jogged on together till they came unto an inn
And there they called an ostler and boldly they walked
in
They called for liquors of the best,
They went upstairs and got undressed
What happened next can ne’er be guessed
To the female highwayman

For she’s pulled off her breeches and likewise her
jacket red
She’s taken off her velvet cape and lay upon the bed.
Her true love in amazement stands
It seems the end of all his plans
For she has proved to be a man
This female highwayman.

Her true love stands like one amazed and at her did
stare
But when the joke he did find out he loudly did
declare:
” Fear not my love, it’s time to smile”
He threw his clothes down in a pile
He was a female all the while
For the female highwayman