Lead Belly

“ We was six weeks a-haulin', lord, lord, lord,
Then my wife and your wife, lord, lord, lord,
They give a feather pickin', lord, lord, lord,
They was six weeks a pickin, lord, lord, lord,
Then they put him on a parboil, lord, lord, lord,
They was six weeks a boilin', lord, lord, lord,
Then they put him on the table, lord, lord, lord,
And the fork couldn't stick him, lord, lord, lord,
And the knife couldn't cut him, lord, lord, lord,
Then they throwed him in the hog pen, lord, lord, lord,
And the hog couldn't eat him, lord, lord, lord ”

“ 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. ”