“Talt Hall”
Description
"Come all you fathers and mothers And brothers and sisters all, I'll relate to you the history Concerning old Talt Hall." "He shot and killed Frank Salyers." Hall is taken and condemned to die. He writes to bid his brother farewell. He regrets his acts
Notes
Combs/Wilgus reports that "Talt Hall, [a] native of Kentucky... was hanged in Virginia toward the end of the nineteenth century" and that "he had on his conscience more than twenty assassinations."
This song is item dE42 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
References
- Combs/Wilgus 62, pp. 157-158, "Talt Hall" (1 text)
- Roud #4102
- BI, CW157