Gallis Pole - Lead Belly

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

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

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