Watch Me Swing

People standing all around
How they laugh and sing
And they're here for me! This wonderful crowd
They came to watch me swing

The word went round they'd brought me down
And dancing filled the streets
Men and women and little ones pranced!
Waiting to watch me swing

The judge and the gavel announced my fate
Decided by the jury
Guilty of murder in the first degree
Now this lovely town gets to watch me swing!

They asked me if I did it true
I told them merrily
I killed the bastard, his brother too!
Now come and watch me swing!

Up to the platform I am led
Where I'll hang by the neck until dead
They asked if I had one last decree
I said, "Thank you all for comin to watch me swing!"

I swing and swing in the evening breeze
I swing and swing from the old oak tree
I swing and swing till I'm stiff and green