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Thread #8178 Message #4165594
Posted By: GerryM
19-Feb-23 - 11:21 PM
Thread Name: Songs about capital punishment.
Subject: RE: Songs about capital punishment.
Too Close to the Wind, written by Stuart Marson, recorded by many, is about a gang of highwaymen (fictional, I think), hung in Northamptonshire for their crimes. It contains the lines,
And now I lie in a darkened dungeon,
Condemned on the gallows to die.
And,
And the crowds will walk through the streets till sunset,
When the hangman cuts us down.