"Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while, I think I see my brother coming, riding a many mile. "

[Taverner]

See if you can ID this quote

If you know, you just know...

[WilliamPitt]

1. It's "Wait a little while..."

FYI.

:P

[Taverner]

2. Different points he changes it

Maybe I've listened to too many bootlegs ... there's a bootleg I have with a full Acoustic Set and then Electric of LZ

[WilliamPitt]

3. Ah

I'm just going off III.

;)

[Taverner]

4. I probably wrote it wrong, based on memory

But yeah, I think they do Hangman on the LZ DVD - they do an acoustic set there too

[flying rabbit]

5. old school:

Leadbelly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmTNgJxlrCY

[KT2000]

6. Peter Paul and Mary

sang it but don't know who wrote it.

[shugah]

7. i do know. there were friends and a sister involved too

if i recall correctly.

[Silver Swan]

8. Old folk song

"Brother did you bring me silver, brother did you bring me gold..."

Many variations. Way back in the mid 1960's, I wrote a term paper on this theme.

[timtom]

9. John Jacob Niles

Folkways
"The Maid Freed From the Gallows"

Also covered by Peter Paul and Mary, I believe.

Niles was listed on the album cover as a "mountaineer tenor."
In reality, he kept sliding into falsetto.