Once I Had a True Love-Ewan MacColl

[ti:Turpin Hero] [ar:Ewan MacColl] [al:Essential Masters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.72]Once I Had a True Love - Ewan MacColl [00:03.00]Written by：Ewan Maccoll/Peggy Seeger [00:03.10] [00:23.30]On hounslow heath as I rode o'er [00:26.66]I spied a lawyer riding before [00:29.42]Kind sir said I ain't you afraid [00:32.47]Of turpin that mischievous blade [00:35.56] [00:36.12]O rare turpin hero [00:39.57]O rare turpin o [00:42.28] [00:44.84]Said turpin he'd ne'er find me out [00:48.13]I've hid my money in my boot [00:51.37]Says the lawyer there's none can find [00:54.35]Me gold for it's stitched in me cape behind [00:57.30] [00:57.94]O rare turpin hero [01:01.25]O rare turpin o [01:03.85] [01:06.82]As they rode down by the powder mill [01:09.63] [01:10.21]Turpin commands him to be still [01:13.13]Says he your cape I must cut off [01:16.18]For my mare she wants a saddle cloth [01:19.38]O rare turpin hero [01:23.02]O rare turpin o [01:25.70] [01:28.41]As turpin rode in search of prey [01:31.43]He met an excise man on the way [01:34.49]Then boldly he did bid him stand [01:37.21] [01:37.72]Your gold he said I do demand [01:40.50] [01:41.12]O rare turpin hero [01:44.41]O rare turpin o [01:47.06] [01:50.19]Turpin then without remorse [01:52.86]Soon knocked him quite from off his horse [01:56.10]And left him on the ground to sprawl [01:59.10]So he rode off with his gold and all [02:02.43]O rare turpin hero [02:05.74]O rare turpin o [02:08.51] [02:11.22]So he rode over salisbury plain [02:14.46]He met lord judge with all his train [02:17.43]Then hero like he did approach [02:20.53]And robbed the judge as he sat in his coach [02:23.84]O rare turpin hero [02:27.16]O rare turpin o [02:29.89] [02:32.66]For the shooting of a dung hill cock [02:35.58]Poor turpin now at last he's took [02:38.70]And carried straight into a jail [02:41.81]Where his ill luck he does bewail [02:44.96]O rare turpin hero [02:48.59]O rare turpin o [02:51.35] [02:53.96]Now turpin is condemned to die [02:57.00]To hang upon yon gallows high [03:00.17]His legacy is a strong rope [03:03.39]For stealing a poor dung hill cock [03:06.37]O rare turpin hero [03:09.42] [03:09.97]O rare turpin o [03:12.59] [03:13.27]O rare turpin hero [03:16.44]O rare turpin o