Mason Profitt

Two Hangmen(Chords)

Mason Profitt

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	        D                                                       A 
As I rode in to Tombstone on my horse his name was Mac 
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I saw what I'll relate to you goin' on behind my back 
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It seems the folks were up in arms, a man now had to die 
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For believin' things that didn't fit the laws they 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 talked to all the people from his scaffold in the square 
He told them of the things he found, but they didn't seem to care 
He said the laws were obsolete, a change they should demand 
But the people only walked away, he couldn't understand 
 
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 
He finally arrested Freak and then he sent for me 
To hang a fellow hangman from a fellow hangman's tree 
 
It didn't take them long to try him in their court of law 
He was guilty then of thinkin', a crime much worse than all 
They sentenced him to die, so his seed of thought can't spread 
And infect the little children, that's what the law had said 
 
So 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 
 
 
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And now we're two hangmen hangin' from a tree 
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That don't bother me at all            (repeat ad nauseum) 
 
 
 
 
 
 

	        

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