The Strung Up Man
The Strung up Man is an old folk-song from Hillfort, often sung by the commoners tasked with the gruesome task of pulling down the corpses from the tree in Chillmark. No one is sure where it first begun, but it was popularized after the cutting down of the tree by Maelgwyn in 508 where his wife Marion used a slightly modified version of the song as an inspiration to her husband to stay strong in the face of adversity.
If the song originally was a song of warning for commoners to stay away from the Lords of the land, it is now used for inspiration and hope by the very Lords for which is was intended.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
Where dead man called out
For his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
Where I told you to run,
So we'd both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
[Original line:] Wear a necklace of rope,
[Line modified for effect:] Wear a necklace of hope,
Side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
Where I told you to run,
So we'd both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
Where dead man called out
For his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.