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Tony how fab I remember me Nan singing it x

Me favourite.
Also apparently, sung to Ned Kelly by a young lad, during Ned's last stand at Glenrowan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-vYckKuMOI

There was a wild colonial boy,
Jack Duggan was his name
He was born and raised in Ireland,
in a place called Castlemaine
He was his father's only son,
his mother's pride and joy
And dearly did his parents love
the wild colonial boy

When scarcley sixteen years of age
he left his father's home,
And through Australia's sunny shores
a bushranger did roam.
He'd rob the largest squatters,
their stock he would destroy,
a terror to Australia was
the wild Colonial Boy.

In sixty-one this daring youth
commenced his wild career,
With a heart that knew no danger,
no stranger would did he fear.
He bailed up the Beechworth roll mail-coach,
and robbed Judge MacEvoy,
Who trembled and gave up his gold to
the wild Colonial Boy.

He bade the judge "Good morning",
and told him to beware,
That he'd never rob a poor man
who wafted on the square,
Three mounted troopers came in sight
Kelly, Davis and Fitzroy,
who thought that they would capture him,
the wild Colonial Boy.

"Surrender now, Jack Doolan,
you see were three to one".
Surrender in the queens name
you daring highwayman,"
Jack drew two pistols from his belt,
and waved them proud and free
"I'll fight, but not surrender,"
cried the wild Colonial Boy.

He fired at Trooper Kelly
and brought him to the ground,
And in return from Davis
received a mortal wound.
All shattered through the jaws he lay
still firing at Fitzroy,
And that's the way they captured him-
the wild Colonial Boy.

Tony...:>))

Oh thanx all an overwhelming response I forgot about the Ballad of Ned Kelly lol ty Tony x

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWv53vnkuZE

Ah, Loreena McKennitt - one of our many fab women singers here in Canada. Check out some of her others (in the related videos at Youtube) if you like her style.

Me, I'll still take my Phil Ochs. ;)

That Adam Ant ... hmm. ;)

One of my dad's favourite things to watch on TV was The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh - a Disney?

Here's part 1 - I guess it's all there on Youtube, but where the Stand and Deliver song is, I don't know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cZtwEJJOu8


Footie, you should play the song version of The Highwayman, and certainly use the poem!

Ha I said to myself when I saw the title Highwaymen. My very most favourite poem. Alfred Noyes. I don't even have to look it up I can quote most of it. Well with a few mistakes here and there.

It has the most famous examples of alliteration in English poetry. Magic stuff.

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor
And the highwayman came riding riding riding
The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door

Find it and read it, out loud and listen to the words make the sounds of the action...... "Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn yard"

The words are so evocative it is like watching the action.

He turned, he spurred to the Westward; he did not know who stood
Bowed, with her head o'er the musket, drenched with her own red blood!
Not till the dawn he heard it, and slowly blanched to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there."



Pulls another tissue from the box and adds it to the soggy pile on the floor!!

where Bob?

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http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/04/01/1691-jack-withrington-highwayman/

and a NZ highwayman listed in NZ Biographical Volumes
Robert Herman Wallath

http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=2W5

Perse

Hmmm.........I'd av thought gordon brown and alistair darling.......but I'm not sure who's riding who......

Bob

Adam & the Ants...........Stand & Deliver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PonczpswC3s

lol
:o)))

I restrained myself Janey ;) just........

goes off muttering
"........Bess, the landlord's daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair."

Ha, I was going to say: watch out, or I'll be spouting the whole poem at you ... if Rambling Rose doesn't beat me to it. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9fWjzYiRUE

He sang the whole thing *to me* at a local coffeehouse a year almost to the day before he killed himself ...

The . single . biggest . regret of my life, that I didn't ditch the accountant and follow him to his dressing room when the song was over ...

We had a few Highway men in Australia, although ours were called Bushrangers. We didnt have to many Highways back then, apart from say the Highway leading from Melbourne to Sydney........moreso dirt roads.

The gold rush were more responsible for our hold ups "Bail ups" as the Gold bearing wagons and stage coaches bringing gold from the Various gold fields dotted throughout the country into the major city vaults.

Aussies Highway men.... aka Bushranger ( many were ex convicts )

EDWARD KELLY ( Ned Kelly )
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
JAMES ATTERALL
GRAHAM BENNETT
BILL THE PUNTMAN
BOGONG JACK
ROBERT BOURKE
CHARLES BOW
JOHN BOW
HENRY BRADLEY
JACK BRADSHAW
MATHEW BRADY
WILLIAM BROOKMAN
RICHARD BRYANT
MICHAEL BURKE
JOHN CAESAR (alias "Black Caesar")
MARTIN CASH
GEORGE CHAMBERLAIN
THE CLARKE BROTHERS (Thomas & John)
FRANCIS CHRISTIE (alias "Frank Gardiner")
GEORGE COMERFORD
PATRICK DALEY
JAMES DALTON
JOSEPH DIGNUM
JOHN DONOHUE (alias "Bold Jack Donohue")
JAMES DUNCAN
JOHN DUNN
JOHN FULLER (alias "Dan Morgan")
JOHN GILBERT
BENJAMIN HALL
MICHAEL HOWE
JOHN JAMES (alias "Johnstone")
HENRY JOHNSTONE (alias "Harry Power")
FREDERICK LOWRY
JAMES ALPINE MACPHERSON (alias "The Wild Scottsman")
FRANK McCALLUM (alias "Captain Melville")
GEORGE MELVILLE
JAMES MORGAN
PATRICK O'CONNOR
GEORGE PENNY
ALEXANDER PIERCE
JOHN PEISLEY
ANDREW GEORGE SCOTT (alias “Captain Moonlight”)
THOMAS SMITH (alias "Captain Midnight")
JOHN VANE
FREDERICK WARD (alias "Captain Thunderbolt")
WILLIAM WESTWOOD (alias "Jackey Jackey



Tony.....:>))

Check out:

http://www.stand-and-deliver.org.uk/famous_highwaymen.htm

There is also Edward Higgins of Knutsford. Ask search engine for Edward Highwayman Higgins.

Dianne xx

Budgie, we had it read to us at school too and even reading that verse then I could feel the hairs rise on the back of my neck. Great poem.

we had to annotate the poem last week ~ was fanastic the ideas generated from it x

Budgie, my english teacher in the Isle of Man used to read it to us with suitable dramatic emphasis and a great sense of tension...I can still hear him :)

that and "My baby has gone down the plughole" lol

One of my favourites that is, Budgie :)

Gordon Brown !!!!!