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| Loreena McKennitt – The Highwayman Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[Skybluepoet:16207] During that period of time. It did not matter your crime. If you eluded capture. You would most likely be shot down like a dog, but on rare occasions, especially if you were notorious, they would take you to London in chains and execute you publicly. |
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| Loreena McKennitt – The Highwayman Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[SoakedinMercury:16205] The Highwayman didn't kill himself. The Redcoats caught up to him and killed him on the highway. The poem says, "When they shot him down in the highway/ Down like a dog on the highway/ And he lay in his blood in the highway/ With a bunch of lace at his throat" in the thirteenth stanza. |
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