Describe your life in an alternate universe.
Lyrics
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 ’25
But I am still alive
I was a sailor
I was born upon the tide
With the sea I did abide
I sailed a schooner ’round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft to furl the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still
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 and around and around
I’ll 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 come back again, and again
And again and again and again and again
And again
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Jimmy L Webb
Highwayman lyrics © White Oak Songs, Seventh Son Music Inc., Nivek Yash Music
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Jimmy Webb is a great songwriter, and of course the artists are immortals! Do you Townes Van Zandt?
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Thank you. I’d never heard of either of these artists. Zandt kinda reminds me of Marty Robbins. Story telling through song.
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Ohhh Marty Robbins is great too. My Dad’s fav—I sent him a hard to find compilation last year for Xmas. Hope he listens to it. Also try Guy Clark. The album Old No. 1 was never a huge hit but has some of the best writing on it I’ve ever heard. “You’d have thought there were less fools in this world . . .”
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Thank you. I’ll give him a listen.
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