Chords for Leadbelly - Gallows Pole (Gallis Pole)

[C#] You're this thing as the hangman's pole and tell us all about slow and easy like you did last night
Explain all about the jail and everything _ _ _ _ _ _ that hangman pole.
That's a hard [G#] place
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Long years ago
_ It _ didn't have no jail hours at that time
Just put up some low put you now you couldn't get out
No, [C#] how the first man got in jail was a colored man _ and them time of a color person could get up some money
Why they wouldn't hang if they gonna hang it three or four days ahead of time
_ _ _ What is man is in jail, I guess what is done trying to get money get some good deal
They got us can't get out now
_ So in a heart of what comes to the jailhouse it was his father
When his father woke up to the jailhouse [G#] the [C#] boys coming all up started them low
[C#m] Talk to his father try to get 25 or 30 dollars and hear what the man told him when he walked up
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[F#] _ _ Go [C#m] ahead and do it now.
You've got to do [F#] it
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Why did you bring me a silver father to bring me to go I'm gonna bring with your father even on the gala [E] _ [F#] _ Rain
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_ _ [F#] _ [C#m] What did you?
[C#] What did you bring me?
[F#] He's probably got [C#] it.
Oh
Come on.
I brought some silver and I brought some gold and I brought everything
Even the guy that's all [F#] law
_ [C#m] I brought it
_ [F#] Yeah, _ [C#] I _ _
_ You would bring [F#] me keep on [C#] the gala show
You're coming mother.
What is your name?
It's the other mother.
Did you bring me to go?
What did you bring with your mother?
You've been on the gala?
[G#m] Oh, [F#] no
[C#] I brought
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I'm sorry
_ You would bring me [F#] keep [C#] on the gala.
Oh, you know, I'm ugly as bottles.
Don't you bring everything?
_ _ When I brought some silver and I brought the new girl when I brought everything you wanna get it [G#m] for [F#] love
[C#m] I brought it
[F#] Yeah
_ [C#] I thought it you would [F#] bring me keep on [C#] the gala.
Oh go ahead talk to me now _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ do it again _ _ _ _ _ _
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Tell you about a so-called friend _ _ he'll laugh and look in your face and friends shake your hand, but he can't cut it
So _ but when a man got on the inside all the time on the outside is hanging around
Coming on a scene, but when he got on the inside, that's just a place.
They want it
Yeah, come on ragged up to the jailhouse he didn't thank you brought him nothing but he saw you try to fake
_ Then you bring me silver and you bring me to go.
I didn't bring my dear friends.
You've got a gal.
That's all
[F#] _ [C#] What did [C#m] you?
_ [F#] bang
_ [C#] What did you?
Are you [F#] bring me keep on the [C#] gala?
Oh, _ I never brought no silver.
Never brought no girl
Just come here.
I see you.
I'm gonna get it for [F#] love
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Going [F#] yeah, _ [C#m] I'm gonna _ _
[G#m] see [F#] me.
I'm gonna [C#] get it _ _ _
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