《The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia》歌词

[00:00:00] The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia - Flatt & Scruggs

[00:00:01] Rock of ages cleft for me

[00:00:10] Now that could be the voice of

[00:00:11] John F Morgan in the Ripley jailhouse singin' hymns

[00:00:17] Well ol' Johnny might just be singin' hymn this mornin'

[00:00:20] Cause this is gonna be a hangin' day for him

[00:00:26] Now people say that Johnny was a bad man and

[00:00:32] That he had a aim for bein' mean

[00:00:36] He took a hatchet one cold weary morning

[00:00:41] He killed two children and the widow Green

[00:00:46] Five thousand people gathered there in Ripley invited by the sheriff Jay O Sean

[00:00:57] Havin' fun and drinking moonshine liquor and listenin' to ol' Johnny singin' hymn

[00:01:06] The day dawned cold in

[00:01:08] Ripley West Virginia the scaffold stood in silence in a field

[00:01:16] Johnny kept on singin' in the jailhouse waiting there to eat his final meal

[00:01:26] Then rumor started flying through the gathering

[00:01:31] That John F Morgan might get his reprieve

[00:01:36] The people started yelling toward the sheriff

[00:01:41] Afraid they'd miss for all they come to see

[00:01:46] But Jay O Sean the sheriff of Jackson County

[00:01:51] Afraid that such a thing could have been done

[00:01:56] Said I said there was gonna be a hangin' and

[00:02:01] I still mean it there's a gonna be one

[00:02:05] They led John Morgan from the Ripley jailhouse

[00:02:10] And he rode through the happy laughin' crowd

[00:02:15] But when John Morgan stepped upon the scaffold

[00:02:20] They grew quiet when he tip his hat and bowed

[00:02:25] They listened to the preacher say the last words

[00:02:30] They fixed the noose and tied John Morgan's hand

[00:02:35] The signal came and someone sprang the dead's trap

[00:02:40] And sent John Morgan to another land

[00:02:45] The last public hanging in

[00:02:48] Old West Virginia a true story written in this song

[00:02:54] On the sixteen of December in fifteen ninety seven

[00:02:59] John F Morgan paid the price of doing wrong