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Posted by barry sands on February 17, 19104 at 10:40:57:
In Reply to: Re: the ballad of turpin posted by sharon on July 02, 19103 at 00:01:39:
the day light moon looked quietly down
through the gathring dusk on london town
a smock frocked yokel hobbled along
by new gate humming a country song
chewing a straw he stood to starr
at the proclaimation posted there
two hundred guines on turpins head
trap him alive or shoot him dead
and a hundrec more for his mate tom king
he crouched like a tiger about spring
then he looked up and he looked down
and chuckleing low like a country clown
dck turpin pain fully hobbled away
in search of his inn the load of hay
alone in her stall his mare black bess
lifted her head in mute distress
for 5 strange men had entered the yard
and looked at her long and looked at her hard
they went out muttering under thier breath
and then the dusk grew still as death
but the velvet ears of the listening mare
lifed and twitched they were there still ther
hidden in waiting for whom and why
the clock struck 4 a step drew nigh
it was king tom king dck turpins mate
the black mare whinneyed too late too late
they rose like shadows out of the ground
grappled him there with out a sound
throuttle him quietly choke him dead
or we lose the hawk for a jay they said
they wrestled and heaved 5 men to one
and a yokel entered the yard alone
a smock frokt yokel hobbleing slow
but a fight is physic as all men know
his age dropped off he stood up right
he lept like a tiger into the fight
hand in hand they fought in the dark
for no one could fire at a twisting mark
for he that shoot at a foe may send
his pistol ball threw the skull of a friend
but shoot dck shoot gasped out tom king
shoot or dame it we both shall swing
dck lept back he drew he fired
at the pistols crack
the wrestlers whirled they scattered apart
and the bullet drilled threw tom kings heart
dck turpin droped his smoking gun they had trpped him now 5 men to 1
a gun in each hand of the crouchin 5 they could take dck turpin now alive........
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