Gallow's Dance

from Songs of Love, Lust and Loss by Hornswaggle

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A rope around your neck, scaffold standing high
Take a look at the crowd, come to see you die
To punish your crime, you will serve no time
Just a short drop, a sudden stop and a gallows dance

Red faced judge, with a black cloth on his head
Says ‘Hang him by the neck, ‘til he be dead, dead, dead’
To punish your crime, you will serve no time
Just a short drop, a sudden stop and a gallows dance

The witness said you were the worst of men
A thief and a pirate who will strike again
To punish your crime, you will serve no time
Just a short drop, a sudden stop and a gallows dance

With a wicked grin you stand and say
‘I wouldn’t have lived any other way
I robbed and I killed, you say I must die
So throw up your rope and hang me high’

Hang me high, hang me high, hang me high
Hang me high, hang me high, hang me high
Let me shake, let me break, let me drop, let me stop
Hang me high, hang me high, let me die

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from Songs of Love, Lust and Loss, released April 2, 2015

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Born in the dusty cellar of a ramshackle pub, to the sounds of waves crashing and the smell of real ale, Hornswaggle emerge armed with a carnival of songs to delight and astound.

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