Highwaymen song?!
Question: In this song each member of the highwaymen sing of suffering the fate of each of their perspective lives and livelihoods. Johnny was a shotgun rider, Waylon was a river gambler, Willie was a farmer and Kris was an American Indian. They are heroes of the homeland calling themselves WHAT?
Answer is the title of the song.
Answers: In this song each member of the highwaymen sing of suffering the fate of each of their perspective lives and livelihoods. Johnny was a shotgun rider, Waylon was a river gambler, Willie was a farmer and Kris was an American Indian. They are heroes of the homeland calling themselves WHAT?
Answer is the title of the song.
It's "American Remains"
Can't be "Highwayman" because they're 1. a Highwayman, 2. a Sailor, 3. a Dam builder, 4. Starship pilot
The Highwayman
The Highwaymen would be the answer then!
Single by The Highwaymen
from the album Highwayman
Released 1985 Recorded 1984
"Highwayman" is the first single released by country music group The Highwaymen, a supergroup consisting of established singer-songwriters Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. It was the lead-off single on the Highwaymen's first album, Highwayman. The song is a Jimmy Webb cover and remains the most popular and widely-known of The Highwaymen's songs, having reached No. 1 on the US country charts.
About the song
It is distinctive in that it utilizes the voices of all of the members of the group and has no chorus between the four stanzas, sung by Nelson, Kristofferson, Jennings and Cash, respectively.
The song's main theme is death and rebirth, either physical or through one's legacy. In the first three verses, the characters mentioned meet their demise in some way, yet all are noticeably interconnected. Nelson's character is a wanted highwayman, beginning his verse with what are probably the most famous lyrics of the song, "I was a highwayman / Along the coach roads I did ride". The man's adventures were brought to an abrupt end when he was caught and hanged "in the spring of '25". Nelson's verse ends with the words "But I am still alive", signifying a recurring theme throughout the song and much of The Highwaymen's work. Kristofferson's character was a sailor who was "born upon the tide". He sailed on a schooner "'round the horn to Mexico". He went aloft up the main mast to furl the mainsail during a storm. He sings, "And when the yards broke off / they said that I got killed", ending with "But I'm living still", upon which Jennings' verse comes in. The latter's character was, in turn, a dam builder working on the Colorado River, probably constructing the Hoover Dam, referred to in the song as "a place called Boulder". While working, he accidentally "slipped and fell into the wet concrete below" and was buried in "that grey tomb that knows no sound". Once again, he ends with a distinctive phrase: "But I'm still around". The final stanza, Cash's, begins with "I'll fly a starship / across the universe divide", introducing a different element into the song. Singing "Perhaps I may become a highwayman again / Or I may simply be a single drop of rain / But I will remain / I'll be back again", the character suggests that he is in a transitional phase that precedes reincarnation as a different object or individual; this also suggests that the characters mentioned in the song are in fact one and the same.
The music video for the song, as expected, focuses on the different characters and their untimely deaths, shown by a bolt of lightning striking the highwayman, the sailor and the dam builder. After each of these sequences, the same desert scene is displayed, with more and more riders on horseback are visible, to bring the total up to four following Cash's stanza. In those scenes, the face of the singer is blended into the clouds above, and, finally, all four are shown in a moment that can be seen on the album's cover.
I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
But I am still alive.
I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still.
I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and
around and around
I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again..
Highwayman - American Remains.
For anybody who does'nt know this song check out the lyrics on http://artists.letssingit.com/highwaymen...
they were know as the Outlaws
ITS THE HIGHWAY MEN NOT OUTLAWS YOU CAN GET IT ON THEIR GREATEST HITS THE OUT;AWS WERE WAYLON ,JESSI COLTER.WYLLIE NELSON
I'll Be Back again and again.
I was a Highway man