The Highwayman (feat. Mark Knopfler)

I was a highwayman

Along the coach roads

I did ride

With sword and pistol by my side

Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade

Many a soldier shed his life blood on my blade

The bastards hung me in the spring of '25

But I am still alive

I was a sailor

I was born upon the tide

And with the sea

I did abide

I sailed a schooner 'round the horn to

MexicoI went aloft to furl the mainsail in a blow

And when the yards broke off they said that

I got killed

But I am living still

I was a dam builder

Across the river deep and wide

Where steel and water did collide

A place called

Boulder on the wild

ColoradoI slipped and fell into the wet concrete below

They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound

But I am still around.

I'll always be around, and around, and around, and around, and around.

I'll fly a starship

Across the

Universe divide

And when I reach the other side

I'll find a place to rest my spirit if

I canPerhaps

I may become a highwayman again

Or I may simply be a single drop of rain

But I will remain

And I'll be back againand again, and again, and again, and again...