《The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia》歌词

歌曲： The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia

所属专辑：Town and Country

歌手： Flatt & Scruggs

时长： 03:11

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The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia - Flatt & Scruggs[00:00:00]

Rock of ages cleft for me[00:00:01]

Now that could be the voice of[00:00:10]

John F Morgan in the Ripley jailhouse singin' hymns[00:00:11]

Well ol' Johnny might just be singin' hymn this mornin'[00:00:17]

Cause this is gonna be a hangin' day for him[00:00:20]

Now people say that Johnny was a bad man and[00:00:26]

That he had a aim for bein' mean[00:00:32]

He took a hatchet one cold weary morning[00:00:36]

He killed two children and the widow Green[00:00:41]

Five thousand people gathered there in Ripley invited by the sheriff Jay O Sean[00:00:46]

Havin' fun and drinking moonshine liquor and listenin' to ol' Johnny singin' hymn[00:00:57]

The day dawned cold in[00:01:06]

Ripley West Virginia the scaffold stood in silence in a field[00:01:08]

Johnny kept on singin' in the jailhouse waiting there to eat his final meal[00:01:16]

Then rumor started flying through the gathering[00:01:26]

That John F Morgan might get his reprieve[00:01:31]

The people started yelling toward the sheriff[00:01:36]

Afraid they'd miss for all they come to see[00:01:41]

But Jay O Sean the sheriff of Jackson County[00:01:46]

Afraid that such a thing could have been done[00:01:51]

Said I said there was gonna be a hangin' and[00:01:56]

I still mean it there's a gonna be one[00:02:01]

They led John Morgan from the Ripley jailhouse[00:02:05]

And he rode through the happy laughin' crowd[00:02:10]

But when John Morgan stepped upon the scaffold[00:02:15]

They grew quiet when he tip his hat and bowed[00:02:20]

They listened to the preacher say the last words[00:02:25]

They fixed the noose and tied John Morgan's hand[00:02:30]

The signal came and someone sprang the dead's trap[00:02:35]

And sent John Morgan to another land[00:02:40]

The last public hanging in[00:02:45]

Old West Virginia a true story written in this song[00:02:48]

On the sixteen of December in fifteen ninety seven[00:02:54]

John F Morgan paid the price of doing wrong[00:02:59]