Slipknot - Woody Guthrie/Tampa Joe/The Cafe Society Band/Hard Hair

Written by：Guthrie

Did you ever see a hangman tie a slipknot

Did you ever see a hangman tie a slipknot

Yes I've seen it many a time

And he winds and he winds

After thirteen times he's got a slipknot

Tell me will that slipknot slip

No it will not

Will that slipknot slip

No it will not

It will slip around your neck

But it won't slip back again

That's slipknot Lord God that slipknot

Did you ever lose your brother on that slipknot

Did you ever lose your brother on that slipknot

Yes my brother was a slave

He tried to escape

They drag him to his grave with a slipknot

Did you ever lose your father on that slipknot

Did you ever lose your father on that slipknot

Yes they hung him from a pole

And they shot him full of holes

And left him there to rot on that slipknot

Tell me who makes the laws for that slipknot

Who makes the laws for that slipknot

Who says who is going to the calaboose

Or get the hangman's noose on a slipknot

I don't know who makes the law for that slipknot

I don't know who makes the law for that slipknot

But the bones of many a men are whistling in the wind

Just because they tied their laws with a slipknot

I don't know who makes the law of that slipknot

I don't know who makes the law of that slipknot

But the bones of many a men are whistling in the wind

Because they made their laws with a slipknot

And because they tied their laws with a slipknot