Heard this song and wanted to play,I don't know who wrote it. I was finger pickin it but for some reason used a pick.
Short scale 4 string and 5 in. cba. i'll put the amp behind me next time

Hang me, oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me, oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Wouldn't mind the hanging
But the layin' in a grave so long, poor boy
I been all around this world

I been all 'round cape Gigardeau
Parts of Arkansas
All around cape Giradeau
Parts of Arkansas
Got so god damn hungry
I could hide behind a straw, poor boy
I been all around this world

Went up on a mountain
There i made my stand
Went up on a mountain
There i made my stand
Rifle on my shoulder
And a dagger in my hand, poor boy
I been all around this world

So hang me, oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me, oh hang me
And i'll be dead and gone
I wouldn't mind the hanging
But the layin' in a grave so long, poor boy
I been all around this world

Put the rope around my neck
And hung me up so high
Put the rope around my neck
Hung me up so high
Last words i heard 'em say
Won't be long now for you die, poor boy
I been all around this world

So hang me, oh hang men
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me, oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
I wouldn't mind the hanging
But the layin' in a grave, poor boy
I been all around this world

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Comment by Steve Mattox on August 9, 2015 at 1:47pm

GREAT JOB RTZ.............

Comment by RTZGUITARS on August 8, 2015 at 9:21pm

Thanks jim, not easy to find many version for how old it is fun song though

Comment by Jim Morris on August 8, 2015 at 12:11pm

Different version than what we do here but I enjoyed it a bunch.

Comment by RTZGUITARS on July 29, 2015 at 6:14am

Thanks Sammy, I think it sounded better fingerpicked but I have not used a pick much lately need to work on that.

Comment by Sammy Lloyd on July 29, 2015 at 1:54am

lovely RTZ, great to see this tune coming from your Man Cave. You got it going on mate. Sounds bang on to me.

Comment by RTZGUITARS on July 28, 2015 at 6:39pm

Great site for really old tunes

http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html

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Comment by RTZGUITARS on July 28, 2015 at 6:03pm

I think a lot of old drum and fife songs from the English,French and Irish survived though family's and were reused in the revolutionary war with new words and meanings. The cadence and melody remain but the words change in translation or for purpose. I found some cool old war song sites the lyrics are more poetry then song tough to put to music.

Oily he may have been sick of fighting and wanted to be strung up. It is written in the first person.

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on July 28, 2015 at 12:00pm
No direct link. The 42nd Nort Carolina Infantry, in which Tom Dula served, never got anywhere near Cap Girardeau or Arkansas. Oh well...
Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on July 28, 2015 at 11:41am
Nother possibility occurred to me: what if this is a variant related to the well-known Tom Dooley story?:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Dooley_(song)
Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on July 28, 2015 at 11:35am
Well, the chimesfreedom blog did give some hints to 3 specific hangings during a relatively short three year time frame in the mid-1870's...so the Internet is not completely clueless. ;-)

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