The Gallis Pole

Song The Gallis Pole
Artist Leadbelly
Album Leadbelly: Important Recordings (1934-1949)

Lyrics

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[00:21.41] Father, did you bring me the silver,
[00:23.22] Father, did you bring me the gold?
[00:25.09] What did you bring me, dear father,
[00:27.08] Keep me from the gallows pole?
[00:28.04] Yeah, what did you?
[00:32.34] Yeah, what did you?
[00:34.96]
[00:36.52] What did you bring me
[00:37.76] keep me from the gallows pole?
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[00:39.83] In olden times years ago,
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[00:42.56] when you put a man in prison behind the bars in a jailhouse,
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[00:46.72] if you had fifteen or twenty-five or thirty dollars
[00:48.66] you could save him from the gallows pole
[00:49.78] 'cause they gonna hang him
[00:50.94] if you don't bring up a little money.
[00:52.69]
[00:53.50] Everybody would come to the jailhouse
[00:55.00] and boy would ran upside the jail
[00:56.85] he was married, too.
[00:58.10]
[00:59.23] As for who brang him something,
[01:01.74] lot of comfort, here comes his mother.
[01:04.05] Mother, did you bring me the silver,
[01:05.86] Mother, did you bring me the gold?
[01:07.61] What did you bring me, dear mother,
[01:09.60] Keep me from the gallows pole?
[01:10.58] Yeah, what did you?
[01:13.02]
[01:14.52] Yeah, what did you?
[01:17.07]
[01:18.44] What did you bring me
[01:19.75] keep me from the gallows pole?
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[01:22.50] Son, I brought you some silver,
[01:23.49]
[01:24.32] Son, I brought you some gold.
[01:26.19] Son, I brought you a little of everything,
[01:28.01] Keep you from the gallows pole.
[01:29.63] Yeah, I brought it.
[01:32.31] Yeah, I brought it.
[01:35.37]
[01:36.74] I brought you, keep you from the gallows pole.
[01:39.80] Here come his wife
[01:41.48] His wife brought him all kind of clock parts and trace change
[01:44.93]
[01:45.68] Everything in the world she could to get him out of the jailhouse.
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[01:50.51] Wife, did you bring me the silver,
[01:52.32] Wife, did you bring me the gold?
[01:53.95] What did you bring me, dear wifey,
[01:55.07]
[01:55.95] Save me from the gallows pole?
[01:56.82] Yeah, what did you?
[01:59.74]
[02:00.74] Yeah, what did you?
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[02:04.54] What did you bring me
[02:05.73] keep me from the gallows pole?
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[02:40.16] Friends, did you bring me the silver,
[02:41.71] Friends, did you bring me the gold?
[02:43.39] What did you bring me, my dear friends,
[02:44.46]
[02:45.24] Keep me from the gallows pole?
[02:46.23] Yeah, what did you?
[02:49.79] Yeah, what did you?
[02:51.87]
[02:53.62] What did you bring me,
[02:54.68] keep me from the gallows pole?