Roches - On The Road To Fairfax County lyrics

rate me

(by David Massengill)<br />

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O once I loved an outlaw he came and stole my heart<br />

O how I count the hours <br />

Since we were torn apart<br />

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On the road to Fairfax County<br />

I spied a highwayman<br />

He wanted all my money<br />

My heart beat like a drum<br />

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I gave him all my money<br />

And sweet he smiled at me <br />

His beauty eye took pity<br />

Beneath the old oak tree<br />

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We kissed but for an hour<br />

The sun was newly warm<br />

The clouds were as the flowers<br />

That bloom but for a morn<br />

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He gave back all my money<br />

And bowed most gallantly<br />

He promised for to meet me<br />

That night beneath the tree<br />

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We'd flee to some far island<br />

And there we would be wed<br />

And freely we would live there<br />

With no price upon his head<br />

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That night I went to meet him<br />

With my inheritance<br />

He kissed me 'neath the half moon<br />

And joyful we did dance<br />

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O love betrays all secrets<br />

It whispers in the breeze<br />

The sheriff he did follow<br />

With all his deputies<br />

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Like hounds rushing to slaughter<br />

The fox whose luck is run<br />

And he stood erect and cursed them<br />

God damn you every one<br />

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They seized him in a fury<br />

And heeding not my plea<br />

They hung him from the oak tree<br />

Where he made love to me