3 'I've neither brocht your silken cloak,
Nor your golden key,
But I have come to see you hanged,
On this green gallows-tree.'
* * * * *
4 'I've neither brocht your silken cloak,
Nor your golden key,
But I am come to set you free
From this green gallows-tree.'
G
a. Notes and Queries, Sixth Series, VI, 415, 1882. b. The same, p. 269.
1 'Hangman, hangman, stop a minute,
. . . . . . .
I think I see my father coming,
. . . . . . .
2 'Father, father, have you found the key,
And have you come to set me free?
Or have you come to see me hanged,
Upon this gallows-tree?'
* * * * *
3 'I have not come to see you hanged,
Upon the gallows-tree,
For I have found the golden key,'
. . . . . . .