Hiram Hubbard wasn't guilty, I heard great many say
Hiram Hubbard wasn't guilty, lord I heard a great many 
say
He was not in this county, he was forty miles away

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Oh they took him, cross the mountains and they wooped 
him on the hill
Oh they took him, across the mountains and they wooped 
him on the hill
It was there that he pleaded oh please let me make my 
will

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jail
Oh they took him down to Danville and they throwed him 
in jail
And it was then nobody saw him, nobody could go his way

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They took him out at midnight and they strapped him to 
a tree
Oh they took him out at midnight and they strapped him 
to a tree
It was there that they killed him, with a rifle's 
bullits three

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