Turpin Hero (特平英雄) - Ewan MacColl

On hounslow heath as I rode o'er

I spied a lawyer riding before

Kind Sir said I ain't you afraid

Of turpin that mischievous blade

O rare turpin hero

O rare turpin o

Said turpin he'd ne'er find me out

I've hid my money in my boot

Says the lawyer there's none can find

Me gold for it's stitched in me cape behind

O rare turpin hero

O rare turpin o

As they rode down by the powder mill

Turpin commands him to be still

Says he your cape I must cut off

For my mare she wants a saddle cloth

O rare turpin hero

O rare turpin o

As turpin rode in search of prey

He met an excise man on the way

Then boldly he did bid him stand

Your gold he said I do demand

O rare turpin hero

O rare turpin o

Turpin then without remorse

Soon knocked him quite from off his horse

And left him on the ground to sprawl

So he rode off with his gold and all

O rare turpin hero

O rare turpin o

So he rode over salisbury plain

He met Lord judge with all his train

Then hero like he did approach

And robbed the judge as he sat in his coach

O rare turpin hero

O rare turpin o

For the shooting of a dung hill cock

Poor turpin now at last he's took

And carried straight into a jail

Where his ill luck he does bewail

O rare turpin hero

O rare turpin o

Now turpin is condemned to die

To hang upon yon gallows high

His legacy is a strong rope

For stealing a poor dung hill cock

O rare turpin hero

O rare turpin o

O rare turpin hero

O rare turpin o