Oh! guilty or not do you plead;
He smiled into the judge and jury,
And these were the words that he said,
"I've now robb'd a gentleman of two pence,
I've neither done murder nor kill'd,
But guilty I've been all my life time,
So gentlemen do as you will.
"Its when that I rode on the highway
I've always had money in great store;
And whatever I took from the rich