Summer Breeze - Sing 07 - Numi Who Cover Songs

Cover Songs- Sing

Chelsea Morning - Joni Mitchell (1969) - Multitrack Sing 01 - Numi Who Cover Songs

Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon (1977) - Sing 01 - Numi Who Cover Songs

PART ONE

The wind was a torrent of darkness, among the gusty trees.   
The moon was a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas.   
  The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor;   
    And the highwayman came riding—
         Riding—riding—
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a gather of lace at his chin.   
His coat was of claret velvet, his breeches, of brown doe-skin.
  They fitted with never a wrinkle, his boots were up to his thighs,   
    And he rode with a jeweled twinkle,
         His pistol butts, a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt, a-twinkle... under the jeweled sky.

Over the cobbles he clattered, and clashed in the dark inn-yard.
He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred.   
  He whistled a tune at 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.

Off in the dark inn-yard, a stable-wicket creaked;
Where Tim, the ostler, listened; his face was white and peaked.   
  His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair, a mouldy hay;   
    But he loved the landlord’s daughter,
         The landlord’s red-lipped daughter.
Dumb, as a dog, he listened, and he heard the robber say:

“One kiss, my bonny sweetheart! I’m after a prize to-night!
But I shall be back with the yellow gold, before the morning light.
  Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,   
    Then look for me by moonlight,
         Watch for me by moonlight,
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!”

He rose upright in his stirrups, he scarce could reach her hand.
When she loosened her hair in the casement, his face burnt like a brand!
  As her black cascades of perfume went tumbling to his breast,   
    he kissed her waves in the moonlight,
         O, her sweet black waves in the moonlight!
Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight, and galloped away to the West.


PART TWO

He did not come by the dawning, he did not come by noon.   
Then, out of the tawny sunset, before the rise of the moon,   
  When the road was a gypsy’s ribbon, looping the purple moor,   
    A red-coat troop came marching—
         Marching—marching—
King George’s men came marching, up to the old inn-door.

They said no word to the landlord, they drank his ale, instead.   
Then they gagged his daughter, and bound her to the foot of her narrow bed.
  Two of them knelt at her casement, with muskets at their sides -    
    There was death at every window;
         And hell at one dark window;
Where Bess could see, through the casement, the road that he would ride.

They tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest.
They bound a musket beside her, with the muzzle beneath her breast.
  “Now, keep good watch!” and they kissed her. Then she heard her doomed love say:
    "Look for me by moonlight;
         Watch for me by moonlight;
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way!"

She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good.
She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with her sweat and blood.   
  She stretched and strained in the darkness, while the hours crawled on like years,
    Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
         Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
The tip of one finger touched it - the trigger at least was hers!

The tip of one finger touched it, she strove no more for the rest.   
Up, she stood up to attention, with the muzzle still beneath her breast.   
  She would not risk their hearing; she would not strive again;   
    For the road lay bare in the moonlight;
         Blank and bare in the moonlight;
And the blood of her veins, in the moonlight, throbbed to her love’s refrain...

(that's all the lyrics that Soundcloud will allow)

The Highwayman - Loreena McKennitt (1997) Alfred Noyes (1906) - Sing 04 - Numi Who?

Sloop John B - The Beach Boys (1966) - Sing 01 - Numi Who?

Fun, Fun, Fun - The Beach Boys (1964) - Sing 01 - Numi Who?

Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John (1975) - Sing 03 - Numi Who?

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (taxidermied) - Radiohead (2007) - Sing 01 - Numi Who?

Never My Love - the Association (1967) - Sing 01 - Numi Who~

Fake Plastic Trees (not even real plastic) (Radiohed 1995) - Sing 03 - Numi Who~

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (1967) - Sing 01 - Numi Who Cover Songs

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (1967) - Sing 01 - Numi Who Cover Songs

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