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Did you ever see a hangman tie a hangknot? |
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Did you ever see a hangman tie a hangknot? |
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I've seen it many a time and he winds, he winds, |
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After thirteen times he's got a hangknot. |
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Tell me will that hangknot slip, no it will not, |
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Will that hangknot slip, no it will not. |
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Slip around your neck, but it won't slip back again |
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Hangknot, hangknot, that hangknot. |
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Did you ever lose your father on a hangknot? |
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Did you ever lose your father on a hangknot? |
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They hung him from a pole, and they shot him full of holes, |
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Left him there to rot on that hangknot. |
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Tell me who makes the laws for that hangknot? |
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Who makes the laws for that hangknot? |
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Who says who will go to the calaboose? |
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Get the hangman's noose on a hangknot. |
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I don't know who makes the law for that hangknot. |
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I don't know who makes the law for that hangknot. |
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But the bones of many a men are whistling in the wind, |
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Just because they tied their laws with a hangknot. |