Hanged I Shall Be- George Edwards (VT) 1933 Flanders G
[Two stanzas from a recording in the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives. Classification #: LAP35. Track 07b. Dated 10-09-1933.
Listen: https://archive.org/details/HHFBC_tapes_C04A (time 2.05)
The quality of the recording is poor. Only two middle stanzas are sung by the great ballad singer George Edwards of Vermont (not Cazden's George Edwards of New York)- I assume the title comes from a missing ending or from the first published version by Flanders and Brown.
R. Matteson 2016]
[fragment] Hanged I Shall Be - sung by George Edwards at Burlington (VT). Dated 10-09-1933.
I went up to her mother's house,
About eight o'clock at night
And I asked her if she's walk with me,
A wedding we could 'point.
We walked and talked quite merrily,
Till we came to level ground,
And I pulled a stake from out the fence,
And I knocked this fair girl down.