TOM DOOLEY

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Throughout history there have been stories and many songs, written about the trouble triangle. This next one tells the story of a Mr. Greeson, a beautiful woman and a condemned man, named Tom Dooley. When the sun rises tomorrow, Tom Dooley must hang


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Hang down your head, Tom Dooley,
Hang down your head and cry,
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley,
Poor boy, you're bound to die.


I met her on the mountain,
There I took her life,
I met her on the mountain,
And stabbed her with my knife.

By this time tomorrow,
Reckon where I'll be,
Hadn't it been for Greeson,
I had been in Tennessee.

By this time tomorrow,
Reckon where I'll be,
In some lonesome valley,
A-hanging from a white oak tree.