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: : : : : 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 <B style="color:white;background-color:#880000">through</B>, I'd be thrilled if you could send it. Brother and I used to know it all the way <B style="color:white;background-color:#880000">through</B> 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 <B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">daylight </B><B style="color:black;background-color:#A0FFFF">moon </B><B style="color:black;background-color:#99ff99">looked </B><B style="color:black;background-color:#ff9999">quietly </B><B style="color:black;background-color:#ff66ff">down</B>, : : : : <B style="color:white;background-color:#880000">Through</B> the <B style="color:white;background-color:#00aa00">gathering </B><B style="color:white;background-color:#886800">dusk</B> on <B style="color:white;background-color:#004699">London </B><B style="color:white;background-color:#990099">Town</B>. : : : : 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. : : : There is also: : : : Alone in her stall his mare Black Bess : : : Lifted her head in mute distress, : : : For 5 strange men had entered her yard, : : : they <B style="color:black;background-color:#99ff99">looked</B> at her long, they <B style="color:black;background-color:#99ff99">looked</B> at her hard : : : etc etc. Can't remember that either. My mum and I were trying to remember so thought I'd have a look on the net. : : : Doesn't he whistle and the horse comes flying out of the stall?

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