Lead Belly — The Gallis Pole

[Verse 1] Father, did you bring me the silver Father, did you bring me the gold? What did you bring me, dear father Keep me from the gallows pole? [Chorus 1] Yeah, what did you? Yeah, what did you? What did you bring me, keep me from the gallows pole? [Spoken] In olden times years ago, when you put a man in prison behind the bars in a jailhouse If you had fifteen or twenty-five or thirty dollars You could save him from the gallows pole 'cause they gonna hang him if you don't bring up a little money Everybody would come to the jailhouse and boy would ran upside the jail; he was married, too As for who brang him something, lot of comfort, here comes his mother [Verse 2] Mother, did you bring me the silver Mother, did you bring me the gold? What did you bring me, dear mother Keep me from the gallows pole? [Chorus 1] Yeah, what did you? Yeah, what did you? What did you bring me, keep me from the gallows pole? [Verse 3] Son, I brought you some silver Son, I brought you some gold Son, I brought you a little of everything Keep you from the gallows pole [Chorus 2] Yeah, I brought it Yeah, I brought it I brought you, keep you from the gallows pole [Spoken] Here come his wife His wife brought him all kind of clock parts and trace change Everything in the world she could to get him out of the jailhouse [Verse 3] Wife, did you bring me the silver Wife, did you bring me the gold? What did you bring me, dear wifey Save me from the gallows pole? [Chorus 1] Yeah, what did you? Yeah, what did you? What did you bring me, keep me from the gallows pole? [Verse 4] Friends, did you bring me the silver Friends, did you bring me the gold? What did you bring me, my dear friends Keep me from the gallows pole? [Chorus] Yeah, what did you? Yeah, what did you? What did you bring me, keep me from the gallows pole?