John Austin (highwayman) of London by cart to the gallows. The 2½ mile journey along Tyburn Road would have taken up to three hours. Standing shackled in the cart, he would have been accompanied by two guards and a chaplain. They would traditionally stop on the way at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate and two public houses where drinks would be served. On arrival at Tyburn, Austin's cart would have been positioned under a beam and a noose attached around his head. He would then be permitted to address the crowd, his last words were: However, for Austin the noose slipped up the back of his
Highwayman (song) in the format of The Highwaymen with four different singers singing. In this case it is Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth singing Willie Nelson's part, Russell Allen of Symphony X singing Kris Kristofferson's part, Stu Block of Iced Earth singing Waylon Jennings' part and Michael Poulsen of Volbeat singing Johnny Cash's part. Swedish gothic metal band Beseech covered the song on their 2016 album "My Darkness, Darkness". Highwayman (song) "Highwayman" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker