Name: Hangknot
Duration: P00H04M51S
Description: Written by Woody Guthrie, I saw this performed by Eugene Chadbourne and absolutely loved it. I had to bring it to the band, and I think they killed it. No pun intended . . .

Hangknot

from Short Life Of Trouble by Country Mouse

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Written by Woody Guthrie, I saw this performed by Eugene Chadbourne and absolutely loved it. I had to bring it to the band, and I think they killed it. No pun intended . . .

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Did you ever see a hangman tie a hangknot?
Did you ever see a hangman tie a hangknot?
I've seen it many a time and he winds, he winds,
After thirteen times he's got a hangknot.

Tell me will that hangknot slip, no it will not,
Will that hangknot slip, no it will not.
Slip around your neck, but it won't slip back again
Hangknot, hangknot, that hangknot.

Did you ever lose a brother to a hangknot?
Did you ever lose a brother to a hangknot?
My brother was a slave and he tried to escape
They drug him to his grave on a hangknot.

Did you ever lose your father on a hangknot?
Did you ever lose your father on a hangknot?
They hung him from a pole, and they shot him full of holes,
Left him there to rot on that hangknot.

Tell me who makes the laws for that hangknot?
Who makes the laws for that hangknot?
Who says who will go to the calaboose?
Get the hangman's noose on a hangknot.

I don't know who makes the law for that hangknot.
I don't know who makes the law for that hangknot.
But the bones of many a men are whistling in the wind,
Just because they tied their laws with a hangknot.

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from Short Life Of Trouble, released May 9, 2022
Lyrics - Woody Guthrie
Arranged and performed by Country Mouse
Engineered by Myke Fucking Hall
Mastered by Arlen Thompson

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Country Mouse Nanaimo, British Columbia

Country Mouse are four feral forest creatures brought together by a shared love of outsider music and the unlikely coincidence of each having a body to bury. They have conspired, collaborated, and shared shovels ever since. They create low tone psychedelic doom folk with Appalachian and punk rock over and undertones. They sound best in forests and look better in the dark. ... more

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