Hangman (original song-cigar box guitar)

Original song written by Alyson Shelton. All rights reserved. Copyright 2012 One Woman Band style with percussion. Right leg playing a cajon and left leg playing tambourine.
3 string cigar box guitar by Keith Alan

lyrics:
Hangman is coming
Down to Caroline
Gonna be a hanging
They're gonna put me on that line

Come early in the morning
'bout sunrise
There's gonna be a hanging
there will be justice for a crime

Early in the morning
when the rooster crow
the hangman is coming
gonna put that line around my throat

Early in the morning
just about sunrise
there's gonna be a hanging
gonna be justice for a crime

Can you hear the cock crow
It's just about day
I can see the hangman
coming to take my life away

The hangman is coming
down to Caroline
there's gonna be a hanging
they're gonna put me on that line

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Comment by timothy chessel jr on March 14, 2012 at 10:05am

very excellent

Comment by Russell Carlin on March 14, 2012 at 9:56am

Now that is one helluva good song,wonderfully sung and played,I particularly liked the sound of that cajon drum,very atmospheric and yet beautifully stark.

Comment by bemuzic on March 14, 2012 at 7:33am

That's a great Blues song, and excellently performed, love it!!!

Comment by eK on March 14, 2012 at 3:14am
Perfectly captures that feeling you get when you look beneath the Blues and see the dark icy waters that forever lurk just below it. Got that southern gothic mood down pat. And hearing it sung from a woman's perspective and with a woman's voice just makes it ten times more intense. Especially *this* woman who isnt afraid, or angry, or defiant. She's just sitting there waiting - with her eyes wide open - taking it all in. A woman who is already spiritually in the next world - and who now looks on her actual execution as being a mere detail. Wow! Talk about dark!!!

Terrific performance! And a great song. Thx for sharing it with us.
Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on March 13, 2012 at 11:22pm
Yes! Great tone, great playing, great lyric. Only thing additional I could hear in my head was for the bridge, some kinda clean lead, and a heavenly chorus intoning "Hangman...hangman...Hangman..."
Comment by Paul 'PapaHogg' Smith on March 13, 2012 at 10:58pm

Wow, great performance, great lyrics... I'm waiting to buy your album...

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on March 13, 2012 at 10:17pm

Superb performance well up to standard! (-:

Comment by Clock The Wolf on March 13, 2012 at 5:36pm

   Darn.

That was too good.

Now I'm depressed.

   (WARNING! Do not take what this yahoo says seriously!)

Comment by James on March 13, 2012 at 3:10pm

great job , sounding real nice!!!

Comment by Richard G Caudill on March 13, 2012 at 2:55pm

Another fab work from u ,, I always watch all ur vids u post ..U can make some serious music !!!!!!

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