Hangman- Dowsett (VA) 1937 Wilkinson B
[From: Wilkinson MSS., 1935-36, p. 21. Bronson 44. Wilkinson collected at least two versions. He worked with Kyle Davis, Jr. creating music transcriptions for the Virginia Folklore Society.
R. Matteson 2015]
B. [Hangman] The Maid Freed from the Gallows- Sung by Mrs. F. I. Dowsett, Greenwood, Va., June 21, t937.
Hangman, hangman, hold your rope,
Hold it for a while,
For I think I see my father,
For a many a mile.
Father, father, have you any gold?
Gold will set me free.
Or have you come to see me hung
Upon this gallows-tree?