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Oscar Isaac - Hang Me, Oh Hang Me

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Album: Inside Llewyn Davis
Released: 2013

Hang Me, Oh Hang Me Lyrics

Hang me, oh hand me
I'll be dead and gone
Hang Me, Oh Hang Me
I'll be dead and gone
Wouldn't mind the hanging
But the layin' in a grave so long, poor boy
I been all around this world

I been all 'round cape Gigardeau
Parts of Arkansas
All around cape Giradeau
Parts of Arkansas
Got so god damn hungry
I could hide behind a straw, poor boy
I been all around this world

Went up on a mountain
There i made my stand
Went up on a mountain
There i made my stand
Rifle on my shoulder
And a dagger in my hand, poor boy
I been all around this world

So hang me, oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me, oh hang me
And i'll be dead and gone
I wouldn't mind the hanging
But the layin' in a grave so long, poor boy
I been all around this world

Put the rope around my neck
And hung me up so high
Put the rope around my neck
Hung me up so high
Last words i heard 'em say
Won't be long now for you die, poor boy
I been all around this world

So hang me, oh hang men
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me, oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
I wouldn't mind the hanging
But the layin' in a grave, poor boy
I been all around this world

Writer/s: OSCAR ISAAC, T BONE BURNETT
Publisher: BUG MUSIC
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Hang Me, Oh Hang Me

The actor Oscar Isaac had never ventured into folk music prior to taking the role of the titular star of Inside Llewyn Davis, who knocks around Greenwich Village's folk music scene in the early 1960s. Directors, the Coen Brothers, sent Dave Van Ronk's version of this traditional folk tune to the actors auditioning to play Davis, whose musical style is based on the folk legend. Isaac recalled to Billboard magazine: "In the initial audition, everyone had to play 'Hang Me' and they sent Dave Van Ronk's version. Since that was the only thing I had to go on, I listened to everything he had ever recorded and tried to play those songs. I really fell in love with his style of playing and the songs he would sing. He would find old songs and rearrange them."

Llewyn Davis performs this song in the Gaslight Cafe during the movie. The Gaslight Cafe was an American coffee house located in Greenwich Village. It opened in 1958 and was a well known venue for folk music and other musical acts, until it closed in 1971. New Jersey rock band The Gaslight Anthem took their name came from the venue as frontman Brian Fallon learnt it was one of the first places that Bob Dylan had played and he liked the imagery the word brought about.