I need help. I'm looking for a song from the 60's or 70's. Need to know the name of song and the artist.

Question

Some of the lyrics are "Three Hangmen Hanging from a Tree". Not much to work with but that's really all i know. Have wanted this song in my collection for years but not sure who it is. Only heard it once on the radio and that was years ago. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Should be "Two Hangmen" by Mason Proffit

As I rode into Tombstone, my horse his name was Mac,

I saw what I'll relate to you, goin' on behind my back
It seems that folks were up in arms, a man now had to die,

For saying 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 told them of the things he'd found, but they didn't seem to care
He talked to all the people from his scaffold in the square,
But the people only walked away, he couldn't understand.
He said the laws were obsolete, a change they should demand,

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,
To hang a fellow hangman, from a fellow hangman's tree.
He finally arrested Freak, and then he sent for me,

It didn't take them long to try him, in their court of law,
They sentenced him to die, so his seed of thought can't spread,
He was guilty then of thinking, a crime much worse than all,
And infect the little children, that's what the law had said.
Well, 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 then I had to die,
So to close our mouths and kill our minds, they hung us side by side...
That don't bother me, at all.
Two hangman, hangin' from a tree,
And now we're two hangman, hangin' from a tree,
That don't bother me, at all.

Answer 2

supply peace of venture - John Lennon ? maximum human beings in basic terms chanted 'All we are asserting, is supply peace of venture' repeatedly lower back, no-one remembered the rest that's why Lennon made the shaggy dog tale on the beginning up approximately forgetting the verses.

Answer 3

It's probably not the one you want, but there was a Peter, Paul, and Mary song, probably called "Hangman", that went something like "Slack your rope, hangman, slack it for a while. I think I see my father coming riding many a mile. Father have you brought me home, or have you paid my fee, or have you come to see me hanging, from the gallows tree?" Etc.

Answer 4

I think the song that you're looking for is "Two Hangmen" by Mason Proffit. You might try that. ;o)