Highwayman Outwitted, The

<p>Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics - The Highwayman Outwitted</p>

<h2>The Highwayman Outwitted</h2>

<pre>The Highwayman Outwitted

In Lincolnshire lived a rich farmer,

And his daughter to market would go;

Thinking that no body would harm her,

As she rode away to and fro.

Till she met with a lusty highwayman,

Her pockets he drew from her sides;

And as she stood shivering and shaking,

He gave her the bridle to hold.

From stirrip to saddle she mounted,

She threw her legs over like a man;

All the way that she gallop'd, she shouted

Now catch me you rogue, if you can.

This highwayman soon followed after,

A bullet from his pistol let fly;

He ran, but he could not come at her,

His boots they so hampered his knees.

As she rode over her father's green pasters,

It had just struck a eleven by the clock;

Her father was sorely afrighted, to see

Her ride home in her smock.

O daughter what has been the matter, you

Have tarried so long from your home?

O father I have been sorely afrighted,

But still I have come to no harm.

Then he pulled from behind her, a

Port mantell with several articals more;

And ninety score of bright guineas,

He tumbled them out on the floor.

O father this is a grand portion,

It will keep the wild wolf from the door;

O daughter it is a grand portion,

Unto thee I will give as much more.

Then here is a health to the lass,

That the risk of her life she has run;

She tricked the highwayman compIetely

Out of his horse, money and gun.

DT #682

Laws L2

Reprinted from a broadside by Harkness in the Houghton Library

at Harvard University in Laws American Balladry From British

Broadsides.

SOF

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