Hiram Hubbard - Folk Song - Mountain Banjo

Hiram Hubbard is a traditional folk song of the land. It tells of the tragic story of how Hiram Hubbard was executed for a crime that great many say he did not commit. Many artists have performed this song like, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Bob Dylan. I`m partial to the Jake Book version. If you like this song at all you will love the way he sings and plays it.

I sing and play it on the mountain banjo clawhammer style

Hiram Hubbard - lyrics

Come gather round me children and a story I will tell
Come gather round me children and a story I will tell
Concerning poor Hiram Hubbard, and how he came and fell

While traveling through this country in sorrow and distress
While traveling through this country in sorrow and distress
The rebels overhauled him, and in chains they bound him fast

They whopped him up the mountain and they whopped him up the hill
They whopped him up the mountain and they whopped him up the hill
To that place of execution where he begged to write his will

Farewell kind friends and neighbors, likewise my wife and child
Farewell kind friends and neighbors, likewise my wife and child
I never hurt nobody, but now I'm bound to die

Well they bound the chains around him and they tied him to a tree
Well they bound the chains around him and they tied him to a tree
Eleven balls went through him and then he sank away

Hiram Hubbard was not guilty, I've heard great many say
Hiram Hubbard was not guilty, I've heard great many say
He was not in this country, he was ninety miles away