Did you ever see a hangman tie a hangknot?
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Did you ever see a hangman tie a hangknot?
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I've seen it many a time and he winds, he winds,
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After thirteen times he's got a hangknot.
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Tell me will that hangknot slip, no it will not,
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Will that hangknot slip, no it will not.
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Slip around your neck, but it won't slip back again
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Hangknot, hangknot, that hangknot.
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Did you ever lose your father on a hangknot?
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Did you ever lose your father on a hangknot?
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They hung him from a pole, and they shot him full of holes,
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Left him there to rot on that hangknot.
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Tell me who makes the laws for that hangknot?
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Who makes the laws for that hangknot?
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Who says who will go to the calaboose?
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Get the hangman's noose on a hangknot.
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I don't know who makes the law for that hangknot.
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I don't know who makes the law for that hangknot.
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But the bones of many a men are whistling in the wind,
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Just because they tied their laws with a hangknot.
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Slipknot (Hangknot, Slipknot)
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Woody Guthrie |