"Hiram Hubbard" Performance
Added 2020-08-15 12:01:00 +0000 UTCgDGBD relative (eBEG#B actual) I learned the early folk ballad "Hiram Hubbard" from Jake Book of Gallatin County, Kentucky. Jake learned it from a recording of Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson (Folkways Records, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Library of Congress).
Come all you friends and neighbors a story I will tell (x2)
Concerning Hiram Hubbard and how it was he fell.
While traveling through this country in sorrow and distress (x2)
The rebels overcame him in chains they bound him fast.
They took him up the hollow they took him up the hill (x2)
To the place of execution where he begged to make his will.
They wound their chords around him they bound him to the tree (x2)
When the balls passed through his body it was a sight to see!
Hiram Hubbard was not guilty I've heard great many say (x2)
For he was not in this country but ninety miles away.
Comments
That’s a good one Clifton...
Nate Bowser
2020-08-15 15:35:51 +0000 UTCGraet tune. Love the brushes you throw in there.
sean cline
2020-08-15 13:49:39 +0000 UTCThanks Clifton, love this song!! ❤️.
Cindy Barrett Gilchrist
2020-08-15 12:06:35 +0000 UTC
