Fairport Convention – Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman (Guitar)

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Won’t you rise for the hangman, his pleasure is that you should rise

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He’s the judge and the jury at the jester’s assize

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Poor Will on the gallows tree never a cruel word did say

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Oh that a young man should be treated this way

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Run to me mother of anyone’s child and tell me the revelry planned

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Judges and barristers, clerks at the law, his show is the best in the land

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Here’s a toast to the Jolly Hangman, he’ll hang you the best that he can

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Here’s a toast to the Jolly