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Does anyone know the lyrics to a song from the late 60s that has the refrain "two hangmen hangin from a tree"

In the late 60s or early 70s there was a song about one hangman hired to hang another. The last refrain was, "Two hangmen hangin from a tree and that don't bother me at all." Where could I find the lyrics to this song?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Two Hangmen

    by Mason Proffit

    As I rode into Tombstone on my horse whose name was Mac

    I saw what I'll relate to you goin' on behind my back

    It seems the folks were up in arms a man now had to die

    For believin' things that didn't fit the laws they'd set aside

    The man's name was I'm a freak the best that I could see

    He was the executioner a hangman just like me

    I guess that he'd seen loopholes from workin' with his rope

    He'd hung the wrong man many times so now he turned to hope

    He'd talk to all the people from his scaffold in the square

    He told them of the things he found;

    But they didn't seem to care

    He said the laws were obsolete, a change they should demand

    But the people only walked away, he couldn't understand

    The Marshall's name was Uncle Sam he said he'd right this wrong

    He'd make the hangman shut his mouth if it took him all year long

    He finally arrested Freak and then he sent for me

    To hang a fellow hangman from a fellow hangman's tree

    It didn't take them long to try him in their court of law

    He was guilty then of thinking a crime much worse than all

    They sentenced him to die so his seed of thought can't spread

    And infect the little children; that's what the law had said

    So the hangin' day came 'round and he walked up to the noose

    I pulled the lever but before he fell I cut him loose

    They called it all conspiracy and that I had to die

    So to close our mouths and kill our minds they hung us side by side

    And now we're two hangmen hangin' from a tree

    That don't bother me at all

    Two hangmen hangin' from a tree

    That don't bother me at all

  • 1 decade ago

    Two Hangmen - Mason Proffit

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    http://www.jencomics.com/artist_m/mason_proffit_ly...

    Here thay are. Google part of the lyrics in quotes. That usually does it.

    Mason Proffitt song

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