Lyrics

Come all you friends and neighbors, a story I will tell X2
Concerning Hiram Hubbard and the way in which he fell

While traveling through this country in sorrow and distress X2
The sheriff caught up to him and placed him under arrest

Hiram Hubbard was not guilty I heard a great many say X2
He wasn’t in this country he was sixteen miles away

They led him up the holler they led him up the hill X2
To a place execution where he begged to write his will

They wound the cords around and bound him to a tree X2
Nine shots rang right through him and he died most bitterly

Hiram Hubbard was not guilty I heard a great many say X2
He wasn’t in this country he was sixteen miles away