Did you ever see a hangman tie a slipknot Did you ever see a hangman tie a slipknot

Yes I seen it many a time And he whines and he whines

Half to 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'll slip around your neck but it won't slip back again

That slipknot Lord God, that slipknot Did you ever lose a brother on that slipknot

Did you ever lose a brother on that slipknot Yes my brother was a slave he tried to escape

They drug 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 they left him there to rot in 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 or the 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 man are whistling in the wind

Because they tied their laws with a slipknot I don't know who makes the laws of that slipknot

I don't know who makes the laws of that slipknot But the bones of many a man are whistling

in the wind Because they made their laws with a slipknot

And because they tied their laws with a slipknot