The highwayman

The song the highwayman put to an appropriate vid

Category:

Music

Tags:

• celtic
• fleetwood
• mac
• Loreena
• Mckenitt

[Freebee59]

who sings this

[jeffrydhall]

@Freebee59 Loreena Mckennitt.

[Freebee59]

@jeffrydhall

thank you

can i get this on itunes?

[jeffrydhall]

@Freebee59 I think so.

[jeffrydhall]

@Freebee59 what is your email and I will see if i can send it to you.

[darn1240]

Bess certainly was not the Highwayman's horse. Not sure where that came from. Bess and the Highwayman had obviously known each other for some time. McKennitt's version leaves out Tim the Ostler, unfortunately. Tim is the pivotal point in the story as he is the snitch. Without him, how would the Redcoats have known that the Highwayman was in the territory? One of my favorite poems...

[strawbg13]

I think the clip is well made apart from the car in it but I loved it. It really makes you think and puts you in the character's shoes. Great clip!

[GimmeDemPiez]

@Tinyoak2 Its actually the poem by Alfred Noyes written in the 1700's in song form.

[LakerSteelerFan23]

Good video but audio kind of late

[sheffieldsavenue7683]

this is pretty but your forgetting the last paragraph! :< shame.. this is my fave poem! MISSING: Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard;

He taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred;

He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there

But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,

Bess, the landlord's daughter,

Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

[Tinyoak2]

The story kind of echoes the true life tail of two genuine highwaymen of the eighteenth century, James MacLaine and William Plunkett. The real story goes that to save his own neck from hanging, Plunkett snitched on Maclaine---which didn't work because years later, Plunkett was hanged anyway. My point I guess it, I am not sure if that was intentional or not...perhaps the poem was based on the highwaymen of the time in general, but it certainly sounded inspired by the true story of these two.

[JimmyScOpen]

So i learned of this song from my english class, of all of them :P... and from the story "Agela's ashes" Or something, i don't remember D:!!!

[bethan130100]

i like the intro to this xx

[UnpimpYourAuto]

That IS a great vid for this song. However, you might consider putting some inserts into the vid so the timing lines up better with the song. Since the vid was made for Fleetwood Mac's song, the timing is different. But again, good find!

[nikolaitravolskie]

@AnimeGirl1723 no problem lass, hahaha i actually had the dick turpin movie clip in my history thats how i found it again