There are stories and many songs written about the
trouble triangle. This next one tells the story of a mrs.
Greeson, a beautiful woman, and a condemned man,
named Tom Dooley. When the sun rises tomorrow,
Tom Dooley has to hang.


Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry.
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you’re bound to die.

1. I meet her on the mountain,
   There I took her life.
   I meet her on the mountain
   and stabbed her with my knife.
   
2. This time to-morrow
   Reekon where I’ll be,
   If it had n’t been for Greeson,
   I had been of Tenessee.
   
3. This time to-morrow
   Reekon where I’ll be,
   In some Lonesome valley
   A hanging on a white oak tree.