HIRAM HUBBARD
(learned from Charlie "Brown" Artman in the 1960s at Teton Tea Parties)
Hiram Hubbard was not guilty, I've heard a great many say.
Oh, come all ye friends and neighbors, the truth to you I'll tell.//
While ramblin' through this country, in sorrow and distress,//
Oh, they led him to the holler, they led him to the hill.//
They tied the cords around him, and they bound him to the tree.//
(from miriam berg's folksong collection)
Hiram Hubbard was not guilty, I've heard a great many say.
He was not in this country, he was nineteen miles away.
Concernin' poor Hiram Hubbard and the way in which he fell.
The rebels overhauled him, in chains they bound him fast.
To the place of execution, the poor boy begged to write his will.
Eleven balls went through him, his body shrunk away.