This song comes from a VERY old folk song. It has many many many different versions. This one being the most popular. It most of the versions the accused actually lives though. Zeppelin is the only one that kills him. Also, in the original version, it was a woman who was being hanged. She kept begging her family to bribe the hangman, but they had just came to watch her die. Eventually, her lover comes and saves her, and she puts a curse on her family. Led Zeppelin got this song from Huddie Ledbetter. His version is KICK ASS. He called it Gallis Pole though. Dylan also did a version of it called Seven Curses.
there are a few different versions of the variant with the woman being the one that is hanged. In one she sleeps with the hangman and gets let off. The whole idea of the song was to scare kids.. er at least It would scare me if I was little, it was sort of a buggy man song...
there are a few different versions of the variant with the woman being the one that is hanged. In one she sleeps with the hangman and gets let off. The whole idea of the song was to scare kids.. er at least It would scare me if I was little, it was sort of a buggy man song...
This song comes from a VERY old folk song. It has many many many different versions. This one being the most popular. It most of the versions the accused actually lives though. Zeppelin is the only one that kills him. Also, in the original version, it was a woman who was being hanged. She kept begging her family to bribe the hangman, but they had just came to watch her die. Eventually, her lover comes and saves her, and she puts a curse on her family. Led Zeppelin got this song from Huddie Ledbetter. His version is KICK ASS. He called it Gallis Pole though. Dylan also did a version of it called Seven Curses.
there are a few different versions of the variant with the woman being the one that is hanged. In one she sleeps with the hangman and gets let off. The whole idea of the song was to scare kids.. er at least It would scare me if I was little, it was sort of a buggy man song...
there are a few different versions of the variant with the woman being the one that is hanged. In one she sleeps with the hangman and gets let off. The whole idea of the song was to scare kids.. er at least It would scare me if I was little, it was sort of a buggy man song...