Mason Proffit - Two Hangmen Lyrics
As I rode into Tombstone on my horse, his name was MackI saw what I'll relate to you, going on behind my backIt seems the folks were up-in-arms, a man now had to dieFor believing things that didn't fit, the laws they'd set asideThe mans name was "I'm a Freak". the best that could seeHe was the executioner, a hangman just like meI geuss he'd seen loopholes from working with his ropeHe'd hung the wrong man many times, so now he turned to hopeHe talked to all the people from his scaffold in the squareHe told them of the things he found, but they didn't seem to careHe said the laws were obsolete, a change they should demandBut the people only walked away, he couldn't understandThe marshals name was "Uncle Sam", he said he'd right this wrongHe'd make the hangman shut his mouth, if it took him all day longHe finally arrested Freak, and then he sent for meTo hang a fellow hangman, from a fellow hangmans treeIt didn't take them long to try him in their court of lawHe was guilty then of "Thinking", a crime much worse than allThey sentenced him to die, so his seed of thought can't spreadAnd infect the little children, that's what the law had saidSo the hangin' day came 'round, and he walked up to the nooseI pulled the lever, but before he fell I cut him loseThey called it a conspiracy, and that I had to dieSo to close our mouths and kill our minds, they hung us side-by-sideAnd now we're two hangmen, hangin' from a treeThat don't bother me, at allTwo hangmen, hangin' from a treeThat don't bother me, at all(Same all the way to the end)
