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The Hanging Of Hattie Ledoux

from The Hanging Of Hattie Ledoux by Angry Johnny And The Killbillies

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It was a cold dark afternoon
In October 1692
When the hanged pretty young Hattie Ledoux
For the crime of witchcraft down by the Manhan river

She pleaded with them please do not
Commit this deed for she was not
She was not what they all thought
But if they follow this through not one of them would be forgiven

The rope snapped tight and she was dead
The whole town felt that awful dread
That night she came into their beds
And all night long they feared and shivered

Nothing grew when spring came round
As if she’d cursed the very ground
Where they had laid her body down
And no salmon came back up the river

The beasts and fowl left the woods
Only the owls understood
Their sound at night was deafening
As they called out for sweet young Hattie Ledoux

Their sheep and cattle starved and fell
Their hens laid eggs with broken shells
And poison seeped into their wells
And they could hear young Hattie whisper

Then one by one their children died
Of a fever burning deep inside
They held their babies and they cried
Oh Lord what have we done

And then the reaper called them all
And there were none left by the fall
A year since Hattie Ledoux had hanged
Only the gravestones now remained

They say that you can go there still
And hear the owls in the hills
Listen on a winter night
As they call out Hattie’s name

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from The Hanging Of Hattie Ledoux, released October 8, 2014

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I get on with my days
In a permanent haze
People think it’s a phase
But my madness is growing…

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