Highwaymen - Highwayman lyrics

HIGHWAYMAN

Written by: Jimmy Webb

Performed by: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash & Kris

Kristofferson

Appears on: Highwayman-1985, The Highwayman Collection-2000, et

al.

[Nelson:]

I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride.

With sword and pistol by my side.

Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.

Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade.

The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five.

But I am still alive.

[Kristofferson:]

I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide.

And with the sea I did abide.

I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico.

I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow.

And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed.

But I am living still.

[Cash:]

I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide.

Where steel and water did collide.

A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado.

I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below.

They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound.

But I am still around.

I'll always be around, and around, and around, and around, and around.

[Jennings:]

I fly a starship across the Universe divide.

And when I reach the other side,

I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can.

Perhaps I may become a highwayman again.

Or I may simply be a single drop of rain.

But I will remain.

And I'll be back again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

[Thanks to Briana Carson for lyrics]