C   F   G
C   F   G

[Verse]
    C               F  C
Oh, once I loved an outlaw
                  G
He came and stole my heart
    C               F  C
Oh, how I count the hours
      F             G
Since we were torn apart

[Verse]
       C               F   C
On the road to Fairfax county
  F              G
I spied a highwayman
   C             F C
He wanted all my money
   F                 G
My heart beat like a drum

[Verse]
  C               F C
I gave him all my money
                       G
And sweet he smiled at me
    C               F C
His beauty eye took pity
  F                 G
Beneath the old oak tree

[Verse]
   C                 F  C
We kissed but for an hour
    F             G
The sun was newly warm
    C                  F   C
The clouds were as the flowers
     F               G
That bloom but for a morn

[Verse]
   C                F C
He gave back all my money
                      G
And bowed most gallantly
   C               F    C
He promised for to meet me
     F                 G
That night beneath the tree

[Verse]
     C                F C
We'd flee to some far island
    F                 G
And there we would be wed
    C               F    C
And freely we would live there
        F              G
With no price upon his head

[Verse]
     C               F    C
That night I went to meet him
              G
With my inheritance
   C                    F    C
He kissed me 'neath the half moon
    F             G
And joyful we did dance

[Verse]
    C                F  C
Oh, love betrays all secrets
   F               G
It whispers in the breeze
    C              F  C
The sheriff he did follow
     F           G
With all his deputies

[Verse]
     C                 F     C
Like hounds rushing to slaughter
                      G
The fox whose luck is run
       C               F      C
And he stood erect and cursed them
    F              G
God damn you every one

[Verse]
     C               F C
They seized him in a fury
    F              G
And heeding not my plea
     C                 F   C
They hung him from the oak tree
      F               G
Where he made love to me

[Verse]
    C               F  C
Oh, once I loved an outlaw
   F              G
He came and stole my heart
    C               F  C
Oh, how I count the hours
      F             G
Since we were torn apart