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  • Genre:Acoustic
  • Year of Release:2023

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Near Wharnley-Burn farm in the Derwent valley

In a lonely grave on the crest of a hill lies Thomas Raw

He was what they call a moss-trooper

A breed of desperado, who lived outside the law


Well he lived on the land that his fore- fathers ploughed on

When the Prince Bishops called he fought on their side

But when times were hard Thomas took to stealing

And soon his reputation, it spread both far and wide


Well he knew the woods and he knew all the hiding places

From Allansford to Blanchland and beyond

When the Border Warden came to serve his warrant

He rode his horse to the valley and was gone


He and Rowley Harrison they raided

Northwards to the border, where others feared to tread

They took cattle from the worst of the border reivers

And they drove them back to Wharnley Burn

And they left them all for dead


He was excommunicated for his misdeeds

They read his name in every church for miles around

Called him outlaw in the market place in Hexham

Denied him rites of burial in consecrated ground


They made him a stranger in his own land

They drove him to the wastelands to the east and to the west

And when he died in his bed in the winter of 1714

His brothers John and Michael, they laid Thomas Raw to rest


Near Wharnley Burn farm in the Derwent valley

In a lonely grave on the crest of a hill lies Thomas Raw

He was what they call a moss-trooper

A breed of desperado who lived outside the law

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