Death Came for the Hangman
Sanguine Jones
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Death came for the hangman On the night I was to hang I’m looking down on the Rio Grando With the Riders on the rain To the charges held against me The judge asked for my plea Are you guilty or not guilty I answered you ought to know that better than me Death came for the hangman On the night I was to hang He rode on sixteen hoof beats Like the Riders on the rain A dog barked in the prison yard He was only skin and bones He looked into my window Like he was searching for Saint Joan As the sun sets over Memphis The priest comes to my side Asks me for my last request I say can you get me some cyanide The priest he started laughing Then he just looked at me and sighed Sorry but I can’t do that But here’s the cross upon which our saviour died You can hold it in your fist When the rope is at your throat While you’re reading the letter that your Daddy wrote Death came for the hangman On the night I was to hang Now I’m over the Rio Grando Riding high above the rain Death he just kept on riding The hangman kept riding too I crossed the Rio Grando Just to have one last word with you Don’t eat the fruit that’s falling From the huckleberry sky Don’t go near the water When the ships of fools goes by Don’t go to the station When you hear the whistling train Its just four strong winds escaping From the fires on the plain Now I tell you just as sure as sin In a voice as true as pain When I walked away from the gallows pole I was riding on the rain Now I see three ships a sailing On a hard and ragged sea Death came for the hangman on the night he came for me
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