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"The Hangman" is a poem written by Maurice Ogden in 1951 and first published in 1954. [1] The poem was originally published under the title "Ballad of the Hangman" in Masses and Mainstream magazine under the pseudonym "Jack Denoya", before later being "[r]evised and retitled".
Hangman, hangman, hangman / slack your rope awhile. I think I see my father / ridin' many a mile. "Father, did you bring any silver? / father, did you bring any gold, Or did you come to see me / hangin' from the gallows pole?" "No, I didn't bring any silver, / no I didn't bring any gold. I just come to see you / hangin' from the gallows pole."
The Ballade des pendus, literally "ballad of the hanged", also known as Epitaphe Villon or Frères humains, is the best-known poem by François Villon. It is commonly acknowledged, although not clearly established, that Villon wrote it in prison while he awaited his execution. It was published posthumously in 1489 by Antoine Vérard.
"The Hangman" (poem), a 1954 children's poem by Maurice Ogden, and a 1964 animated short based on the poem Hangman , a 2000 novel by Michael Slade "Hangman", a short story by David Drake in his 1979 collection Hammer's Slammers
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Ketch took office in 1663, succeeding the late Edward Dun, to whom he had been apprenticed.He is first mentioned in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey for 14 January 1676, [6] although no printed notice of the new hangman occurred until 2 December 1678, when a broadside appeared called The Plotters Ballad, being Jack Ketch's incomparable Receipt for the Cure of Traytorous Recusants and ...