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Comment by AGP # on June 30, 2016 at 10:39am

"Very Enjoyable Dave", the skinhead and vocals are sounding mighty fine !! 

Comment by A.D.EKER on June 30, 2016 at 5:05am

Thanks Fellors for the Update,learned some history ! Thanks Jim ! the  old story Ye, gambling ,booze and WOMAN,! and it was not Dylan after all, have to hear  me the Lightning Hopkins version, there are a hole bunch that done the Song ! Great one Dave Thanks for the Insperation !! Greeeeettssszz A.D.

Comment by Dave Lynas on June 30, 2016 at 2:14am

Thanks Wes. Thanks Pick. C6 would work on John Hardy too Wes.

Comment by Dave Lynas on June 30, 2016 at 1:52am

Sounds like new verses are in order.

Comment by Jim Morris on June 30, 2016 at 1:08am

Here's the story about the who and why of the murder. Gambling, booze and a woman have led to lots of great songs!

Comment by Jim Morris on June 30, 2016 at 1:04am

As for John Hardy, he was an actual person, and largely thanks to a researcher named John Garst, we now have a fair amount of information about him.www.elijahwald.com/songblog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/John-Hardy-H..." alt="John Hardy Hanging" width="300" height="242"/> He was executed on January 19, 1894, for the killing of a man named Thomas Drews, and the story was reported in that day’s Wheeling, West Virginia, Register:

Hardy killed Drews… in a disagreement over a game of craps. Both were enamored of the same woman, and the latter proving the more favored lover, incurred Hardy’s envy, who seized the pretext of falling out in the game to work vengeance on Drews, who had shown himself equally expert in dice as in love, having won money from Hardy. Hardy drew his pistol, remarking he would kill him unless he refunded the money. Drews paid back part of the money, when Hardy shot, killing him.

The execution was apparently a major event, with three thousand spectators attending, and Hardy’s scaffold oration in the song’s last verse is in keeping with the newspaper report, which says, “He exhibited great nerve, attributed his downfall to whiskey, and said he had made peace with God…. He was baptised in the river this morning.”

 

 

 

Comment by the anonymous pick on June 29, 2016 at 11:59pm

5 yums   ;-)

Comment by Dave Lynas on June 29, 2016 at 10:55pm

Thanks Andries. You can see some of the history in the photo of the hanging. John wasn't a "little man". He's taller than his hangmen. Jim, do you know who John murdered?

Comment by A.D.EKER on June 29, 2016 at 8:27pm

Great rendition Dave Love the History Jim !  living History Here today ! but what does it tell us?Was it self defence? Racial? illegal Gun?Why was he Hung?Who was John Hardy ?Dylan does it to i believe, or i am mistaken! shine a light please!  Greeeeeettssszz A.D.

Comment by Dave Lynas on June 29, 2016 at 4:02pm

Way cool Jim. I like those lyrics too.

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