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Written by Jimmy Webb, Highwayman is a song about reincarnation, with each of the singer's taking a verse (Nelson sang about being a bandit; Kristofferson, a sailor). It hit Number One in 1985, making it the group's only chart-topper.
1 The poem was written by Alfred Noyes when he was 24 years old. He wrote it when he was staying in a cottage in Bagshot Heath in West Sussex. 2  It took him about two days to complete it.  The Highwayman is a narrative poem â it tells a story.