Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 95
The Maid Freed From the Gallows
Version G

  1. Notes and Queries, Sixth Series, VI, 415, 1882.
  2. The same, p. 269.

Narrative

ANGMAN,   hangman, stop a minute,
. . . . .
I think I see my father coming,
. . . . .
2   'Father, father, have you found the key,
And have you come to set me free?
Or have you come to see me hanged,
Upon this gallows-tree?'
* * * * *
3   'I have not come to see you hanged,
Upon the gallows-tree,
For I have found the golden key,'
. . . . .

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