Two Hangmen

Two Hangmen - Mason Profitt (chords as verses; fingerpicking) D A C G G A Asus4 Asus2 A (trill) (for C and G do a run up the inner strings: C chord, hold and pick D E G A C G chord, A B D E G D A As I rode in to Tombstone on my horse, his name was Mac C G I saw what I'll relate to you goin' on behind my back F# G It seems the folks were up in arms, a man now had to die A For believin' things that didn't fit the laws they'd set aside D A The man's name was "I'm a Freak", the best that I could see C G He was the executioner, a hangman just like me F# G I guess that he'd seen loopholes from workin' with his rope A He'd hung the wrong man many times, so now he turned to hope D A He talked to all the people from his scaffold in the square C G He told them of the things he found, but they didn't seem to care F# G He said the laws were obsolete, a change they should demand A But the people only walked away, he couldn't understand D A The marshall's name was "Uncle Sam", he said he'd right this wrong C G He'd make the hangman shut his mouth if it took him all year long F# G He finally arrested Freak and then he sent for me A To hang a fellow hangman from a fellow hangman's tree D A It didn't take them long to try him in their court of law C G He was guilty then of thinkin', a crime much worse than all F# G They sentenced him to die, so his seed of thought can't spread A And infect the little children, that's what the law had said D A So the hangin' day came round, and he walked up to the noose C G I pulled the lever but before he fell, I cut him loose F# G They called it all conspiracy, and then I had to die A So to close our mouths and k**l our minds, they hung us side by side A E G D A A E And now we're two hangmen hangin' from a tree G D A That don't bother me at all A E Two hangmen hangin' from a tree G D A That don't bother me at all A E Two hangmen hangin' from a tree G D A That don't bother me at all A E Two hangmen hangin' from a tree G D A That don't bother me at all (repeat ad nauseum)