Lead Belly - The Gallis Pole lyrics

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? 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 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? Yeah, what did you? Yeah, what did you? What did you bring me, keep me from the gallows pole? 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 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 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? Yeah, what did you? Yeah, what did you? What did you bring me, keep me from the gallows pole? 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? Yeah, what did you? Yeah, what did you? What did you bring me, keep me from the gallows pole?