Hiram Hubbard - Among The Oak & Ash

Come all your friends and neighbors

a story I will tell

Come all you friends and neighbors

a story I will tell

Concerning high room hopper in the way in which he fell

While travelling through this country in sorrow and distress

While travelling through this country in sorrow and distress

The sheriff caught up to him and embraced him under arrest

Hiram Hubbard was not guilty

I heard a great man he said

Hiram Hubbard was not guilty

I heard a great man he said

He was not in this country

He was not in this country he was 16 miles away

They lead him up the holler

They lead him up the hill

They lead him up the holler

They lead him up the hill

To a place of execution

Where he takes to write his will

They wound up the courts around him

They bound him to a tree

They wound the courts around him

They bound him to a tree

Nine shots rang through him

He died most bitterly

Hiram Hubbard was not guilty

I heard a great man he said

Hiram Hubbard was not guilty

I heard a great man he said

He wasn’t in this country

He was 16 miles away