Key: G major•
Verse 1
isn't holding too good
Em
G
together.
Seems like it's going to
strangle me here.
It's just a hanger,
D
G
C
D
G
D
G
a coat hanger.
Em
G
C
D
G
She promised to meet him at
No money, no money to
So jump you up on me,
She jumped up behind him,
and away they did go
C
D
to yonder far country
where the deep waters flow
and I tell you my mind
C
D
my mind is to drown you
and to leave you behind
G
C
oh no no please don't take my life oh
D
G
I will deny you and I'll not be your wife
But it kicked any cup turd
D
G
to the worst understand
C
D
And it threw her in deep wa ter,
D
G
C
Em
D
G
D
G
They found her poor body
the following day
C
G
D
Run up on the river
And up spoke her mother with a voice
such thing
C
D
no one but John Lewis
they traced him up the river
D
G
or they found him in jail for killing a man
Go hang him, go hang him,
Em
G
C
was a mother's command
Go hang him, go hang him,
C
Outro 1
G
D
G
G
C
G
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG Em D C
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