Misc Traditional – Female Highwayman (Guitar)

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Cecilia one certain day

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She dressed herself in man’s array

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With a brace of pistols right by her side

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To meet her true love, to meet her true love

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She met him boldly on the plain

                                  D
Stand and deliver she said young man

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Stand and deliver, young man she said

                                   D
Or else this moment, or else this moment

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She robbed him of his watch and gold

                             D
Gave him the empty purse to hold

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There’s one thing more on your finger now

                                D
Deliver it to me, deliver it to me

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This diamond ring a token was

                                D
Before I’d lose it my life I’d lose

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Being tender-hearted, more like a dove

                          D
She rode away, she rode away

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Early next morning, plain to be seen

                                  D
The couple walked on the garden green

                                       A
When he saw his watch hanging my her clothes

                                       D
Which made him blush, which made him blush

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How can you blush at such a thing

                              D
More if I’d had your diamond ring

                                    A
For it’s I who robbed you upon the plain

                                               D
Now take your gold, love, Now take your gold, love

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How could you enter such a foolish plot

                                     D
Suppose your pistols you would have shot?

                                    A
And if you’d killed me out on the plain

                          D
Forever after, forever after

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I did intend and twas to know

                                  D
Whether your love, it was true or no

                            A
And now I have a contented mind

                              D
My love and all, my love and all

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And now this couple married were

                               D
And they do live a most happy pair

                                     A
For the bells do ring and the music plays

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And they have pleasure, and they have pleasure

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And they have pleasure, and they have pleasure

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And they have pleasure both night and day.