"Hang Me,Oh Hang Me" (Traditional) - Pandemic Recordings - May 7, 2020

I first heard the folk song, “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me” on an early Dave Van Ronk record entitled, “Inside Dave Van Ronk”.
Nobody is exactly sure how the song originated and like most folk songs there different versions of the song with different titles. So who is the condemned man singing the song? Nobody knows for sure but there is high speculation it may be one of the men hanged in Ft. Smith, Arkansas by the notorious “hanging judge”, Judge Isaac Parker between 1873 and 1876. Some people believe the man in song is John Childers who spoke for sixteen minutes on the scaffold. The U.S. Marshall who had arrested Childers offered clemency to the condemned man if he would reveal the names of his accomplices. According to witnesses that day, Childers would not “rat out” his friends. He turned to the Marshall and stated, “Didn’t you say you were going to hang me?” The Marshall nodded his head yes and then Childers replied, “Then, why in hell don’t you!”
Here is my version of “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me”. I play it in D majors as Dave Von Ronk but I tuned to a Drop D tuning.

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