The Hanging Of Hattie Ledoux Chords by Angry Johnny And The Killbillies

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_ _ _ _ _ [B] It [Em] was a cold dark afternoon _ _
[G] _ [D] in [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ October _ _ 1692
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[D] When _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _
a hanged pretty young Hattie LeDoux
_ For _ _ _ [Em] the crime of [C] witchcraft [G] down [Em] by Anne Anne _ _ _ _ _
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She pleaded with them, please do [G] not _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
commit this deed
For she was [G] not, _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
she was not what they all thought
_ _ _ But _ [Em] if they follow this [C] through, not one of [D] them [Em] would _ be forgiven _ _ _
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_ The _ _ _ _ _ rope snapped tight and she was [G] dead _
[D] The _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
whole town felt that awful [G] dread
_ [D] That [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _
night she came into their [G] beds
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] And all night long _ they feared a shiver _ _ _ _ _ _
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Nothing grew when spring came [G] round
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As if she'd cursed the very ground
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_ [A] Where [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
they had laid her body _ down
_ _ _ _ _ And [Em] no salmon came back _ _ of the river
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beast and fowl left the woods
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Only the owls _ [G] understood _
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sound at night was deafening _ _
_ As _ _ _ [Em] they called out for sweet young Hattie _ LeDoux _ _ _ _ _ _
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Their sheep and cattle starved and fell
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Their _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
hens laid eggs with broken _ shells
[D] _ And [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
poison seeped into [Bm] their _ [D] wells
_ _ _ _ _ And [Em] they could hear [C] young Hattie, hear [Em] young Hattie whisper _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Then one by one their children _ [G] died
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a fever burning deep [G] inside _
_ They [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
held their babies and they cried _
_ Oh _ _ _ [Em] _ _
Lord, _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ we died _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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And soon the reaper called them all
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there were none left by the [G] fall _
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A year since Hattie LeDoux had _ hanged
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Only the _ [C] gravestones [G] now [Em]
remain _ _ _ _ _ _ _
They _ _ _ _ _ _
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say that you can go there still
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And [Em] _ _ _ _ _
hear the owls in the [G] hill _
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Listen on a winter's _ night
_ As _ _ _ [Em] they call out [C] _ sweet [Bm] _ [Em] Hattie's name
_ As they call out _ sweet _ Hattie's name
_ _ _ As they call out [C] _ sweet [Em] _ Hattie's name
_ _ As they [A] call _ [D] _ [Em] out_
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_ _ [Em] _ _oh,
sweet Hattie _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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