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The Golden Key

THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS—G

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a. Notes and Queries, Sixth Series, VI, 415, 1882. b. The same, p. 269.

1

Hangman, hangman, stop a minute,
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I think I see my father coming,
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2

‘Father, father, have you found the key,
And have you come to set me free?
Or have you come to see me hanged,
Upon this gallows-tree?’

3

‘I have not come to see you hanged,
Upon the gallows-tree,
For I have found the golden key,’
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