Wait, Hangman - Spencer (AR) 1962 Parler F
[From Ozark Folk Songs online. Collected by Libby Hellums; Reel 414, Item 7.
R. Matteson 2015]
Wait, Hangman (The Maid Freed from the Gallows)- sung by Sadie Spencer (Negro) Dumas, Ark. April 23, 1962
Listen: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/OzarkFolkSong/id/754/rec/8
Wait, Hangman, wait, Hangman, just stay your hand,
And leave me here in jail,
I think I see my mother come
To pay my bondage free.
Dear Mother, dear Mother, did you bring any gold,
To pay my bondage free?
Or did you come to see me hang
Upon the shameful tree?
Yes, Daughter, yes, Daughter, I brought some gold,
To pay your bondage free,
I could not stand to see you hang
Upon the shameful tree.