Mister Hangman- Webb (NC) 1918 Sharp MS
[My title. From Sharp's MS, 4467; Vaughan Willilams Memorial Library also Bronson No. 2.
Sharp's diary entry is below.
R. Matteson 2015]
[Mister Hangman] The Maid Freed from the Gallows- Sung by David Webb, Burnsville, N.C., September 22, 1918 learned from a Negro.
Mister Hangman, Mister Hangman, please slack up on your rope
Just for a little while;
I think I see my poor old father's face,
He has come for so many miles.