Preface to "The Highwayman"

This is one of the songs for which Art Bell and I share a love.      With all the fine souls leaving the floor lately like Mother Teresa, Robert Mitchum, Red Skelton, John Denver and now James Michener, it's nice to think they will be back in another form.  Enjoy, Cynthia.

BUNI

The Highwayman

THE  HIGHWAYMAN

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's blood on my blade the bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five but i am still alive i was a sailor, i was born upon the tide with the sea i did abide i sailed a schooner 'round the horn to mexico i 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 colorado i 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... i'll fly a starship 'cross the universe divide and when i reach the other side, i'll find a place to rest my spirit if i can perhaps 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 again and again and again...

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