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06 Dec 24 - 09:34 PM (#4213046) Subject: Lyr Req: Highway Lady? From: Charley Noble 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. |
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06 Dec 24 - 10:03 PM (#4213047) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Highway Lady? From: Charley Noble 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.' |
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07 Dec 24 - 04:57 AM (#4213053) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Highway Lady? From: GUEST,PMB 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 |