Elizabeth M'Neil afraid of the hangman's fa' /
M'Lean, John,coalminer.
[Scotland? : s.n.,
1835?]
In one column with a woodcut above the title.
Dated in ink beside the woodcut '1835'
First lines read: Sad news I have now to tell, / News of her death will gang far awa'; / She coon can tell, she kens hersel', / She'll get the hangman's fa'.' Chorus: 'O waes me, / My days do wear awa'; / I wish I were but free again / From the hangman's fa'.
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Murder
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