Tom Dooley
Tragic Tale Unveiled: Tom Dooley's Fateful Journey
Lyrics
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Expressing sorrow and shame for Tom Dooley
Hang down your head and cry
Encouraging Tom Dooley to cry in remorse
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Repeating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Suggesting that Tom Dooley's fate is inevitable
I met her on the mountain
Recalling the encounter with the female victim on the mountain
There I took her life
Admitting to taking the life of the woman
Met her on the mountain
Reiterating the location of the crime
Stabbed her with my knife
Detailing the violent act with a knife
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Repeating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head and cry
Hang down your head and cry
Encouraging continued expression of remorse
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Reiterating Tom Dooley's impending fate
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Emphasizing the inevitable death of Tom Dooley
This time tomorrow
Speculating on the singer's location the next day
Reckon where I'll be
Reflecting on what the future holds for the singer
Hadn't a-been for Grayson
Crediting Grayson for preventing the singer from being in Tennessee
I'd a-been in Tennessee
Implies that being in Tennessee would have been undesirable
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Repeating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head
Hang down your head and cry
Encouraging Tom Dooley to cry in remorse again
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Reiterating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Reiterating Tom Dooley's impending fate
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Repeating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head and cry
Hang down your head and cry
Encouraging continued expression of remorse
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Reiterating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Emphasizing the inevitable death of Tom Dooley
This time tomorrow
Speculating on the singer's location again
Reckon where I'll be
Reflecting on what the future holds for the singer
Down in some lonesome valley
Imagining being in a lonesome valley
Hangin' from a white oak tree
Foreseeing the singer hanging from a white oak tree
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Repeating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head
Hang down your head and cry
Encouraging Tom Dooley to cry in remorse
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Reiterating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Emphasizing the inevitable death of Tom Dooley
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Repeating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head
Hang down your head and cry
Encouraging Tom Dooley to cry in remorse
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley
Reiterating the call for Tom Dooley to hang his head
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Emphasizing the inevitable death of Tom Dooley
Poor boy, you're bound to die
Reiterating the certainty of Tom Dooley's death
Poor boy you're bound to die
Repeating the assertion that Tom Dooley is bound to die
Poor boy, you're bound to die...
Final reaffirmation of Tom Dooley's imminent death
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