We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/
  • Digital Track
    Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $0.80 USD  or more

    You own this

     

lyrics

Adieu, Adieu

Adieu, adieu, hard was my fate,
I was brought up in a tender state.
Bad company did me entice,
I left off work and took bad advice.

It makes me now to lament and call,
Have pity on such fellows all

At 17 I took a wife, I loved her dear as I love my life
And to maintain her both fine and gay I went a robbing on the highway

I robbed Lord Goldwyn, I do declare,
And Lady Mancefield of Grosvenor Square,
But Fielding's gang did me pursue,
Taken I was by that cursed crew

Before Judge Hall then I was took,
Before Judge Hall then I was tried.
It's, "Harry Jones, this will not do,
My iron chest you have broke through."

Now when I'm dead and going to my grave
A pleasant funeral let me have,
Six highwaymen to carry me,
Give them broadswords and sweet liberty

Six blooming girls to bear up my pall,
Give them white hats and pink ribbons all
When I am dead, they may tell the truth,
There goes a wild undaunted youth.

credits

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Skylark Productions Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Record label featuring "More or less traditional" folk and traditional music from the Northern Hemisphere and the previous millennium.

contact / help

Contact Skylark Productions

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account