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Brian Peters	Leadbelly and the Gallus Pole / Gallows Pole (24)	RE: Leadbelly and the Gallus Pole / Gallows Pole	15 Oct 18
Alphonso Smith, who collected ballads in Virginia during the 1910s, reported that "The Hangman's Tree "seems to have become peculiarly the property of negroes, at least in Virginia", and described a partly acted-out performance in an African-American community in which a separate individual played each part. None of Smith's published examples looks much like Leadbelly's, though. Does anyone know whether Iron Head's version can be found anywhere?

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