Текст песни: Hangin' Tree + перевод

Well, I can hear mamma singin' the hangin' tree

Sound like someone singin' harmony

And me and my brother we don’t make a peep

We go down slow to the hangin' tree

Hangin' tree’s down by the river’s edge

We come up stream and peek over the ledge

And mamma’s got a rope and a kitchen knife

And the harmony singer is the preacher’s wife

Mamma put a bible in her right hand

And asked her if she been seein' her man

Well, me and my brother don’t hear no more

Cause right then the rain began to pour

It was an hour past dark when she came back home

And we never saw papa round here no more

Mamma took to sittin' by the hangin' tree

But there ain’t no body singin' harmony

The preacher’s wife she don’t leave his side

And we ain’t got papa to tan no hide

My older brother he took his life

And I took to peepin' on the preacher’s wife

I left my mamma when I was sixteen

Strung up in the limbs of the hangin' tree

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