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A few days ago I helped hang a man.
From then on I hadn't
been able to sleep at all.
Cause each night I wake up from the same
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bad dream and I tremble.
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Sometimes it causes me to tremble,
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tremble, tremble.
The screaming lynching gang
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came into town to hang
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The prisoner at the jail and so
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we took him from his cell
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We took him out of jail without a trial or bail
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Drug him on the ground to a hill outside of town
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There on a scaffold high,
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we hung him till he died
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Then we even tore the clothes
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off of him that he wore,
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Lord.
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Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
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And as his mother kneeled, all the earth was still,
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clouds covered up the sun.
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We all said God's will has been done.
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The prisoner's friends then claim his body
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and they lay him in a simple grave inside
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a mountain cave,
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Lord
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Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble
