They call me hanging Johnny; AWAY-I-OH,
They say I hang for money. SO HANG, BOYS, HANG!
Why did you hang your daddy;
And then your mother laddie?
They say I hung my mother;
And then I hung my brother.
I hung my sister Nancy;
Because I took a fancy.
A rope, a beam, a ladder;
I hung them all together.
They call me hanging Johnny;
But I never hung nobody.
I’d hang a brutal mother;
The same as any other.
I’d hang a noted liar;
I’d hang a bloated friar.
I’d hang all wrong and folly;
And hang to make things jolly.
Come hang and sway together;
And hang for finer weather.
They call me hanging Johnny;
But I never hung nobody.
