Posted by Jean Beatty on April 10, 19103 at 12:21:41:

In Reply to: Re: the ballad of turpin posted by Ray MacLeod on July 15, 19101 at 20:09:50:

: I haven't seen it in years. I used to tach in in confunction with Noyes' 'The Highwayman". My gut feeling is that it, also, was by Alfred Noyes.

If you know the ballad all the way through, I'd be thrilled if you could send it. Brother and I used to know it all the way through when we were little. He's coming here to NC tomorrow from England for a month. It would thrill us both to pieces if I could have it to show him. It starts:
The daylight moon looked quietly down,
Through the gathering dusk on London Town.
A smock-frocked yokel hobbled along,
From Newgate humming a country song.
Chewing a straw he stood to stare
At the proclomation posted there.
Three hundred guineas ib Turpin's head
And a hundred more for his mate Tom King.
something, something, something - and so on.

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